Learning & Development Advisor - Part time

This is a part-time role, 22.5 hours a week (3 days a week)

Travelodge is a great place to work. We’re all proud of our strong growth, vision, ambition and team. We understand that the heart of our success comes from our people. We work very hard to ensure Travelodge is a friendly, fun, challenging, progressive and supportive place to be.

You’ll be part of our Talent team that are building the capability of our colleagues by identifying, designing and delivering inspirational products that develop the capability of our colleagues and build further on our reputation of being a ‘great place to work’.

The job in a nutshell:

As a Learning & Development Advisor you’ll support the Management Development Lead to ensure our support centre colleagues (below management level) have the knowledge, skills and behaviours to thrive in their roles to deliver our Better Travelodge strategy. This is a varied role where you’ll be able to work with different stakeholders, ensuring our colleagues have the opportunity to develop within Travelodge delivering both bespoke and generic learning interventions.

This is a part time role working 22.5 hours per week, with some flexibility on days

What you’ll be doing:

• Onboarding: Being the central point of contact for new starters in our head office, facilitating our monthly welcome event, and ensuring all new starters and their hiring manager have access to the relevant onboarding resources.

• Early Careers: Manage our apprenticeship levy offering and levy funded programmes, providing advice to colleagues and maintaining relationships with external training partners and recommending improvements.

• Learning interventions: Working with the Senior Learning & Development Manager and various stakeholders to scope learning needs and subsequently recommending, designing, delivering and evaluating learning interventions.

• Deputise for the Senior Learning & Development Manager when required.

• Facilitation: Deliver training and development in a range of formats at management level (both in person and virtually) for both individuals and groups that enthuse and enable delegates to learn and apply new skills and behaviours.

• Planning: Plan and organise training and development workshops to deliver an outstanding learner experience, collaborating with subject matter experts and people team colleagues as necessary.

• Online development: Raising awareness and generating interest to ensure our colleagues utilise our online development resources and our People site.

• L&D projects: Support with BAU, ad-hoc and bespoke L&D projects as required

  
  

What we’ll expect from you

• Initiative and personal drive to manage and deliver your own workload without frequent supervision.

• Experience in a learning and development role facilitating delivery for a range of behavioural interventions

• Outstanding facilitation skills that engage and motivate learners

• Confident communicator with a personable and professional manner and the ability to interact and relate to all levels of colleagues to build strong working relationships.

• The ability to coach and ask the right questions to fully understand what’s being requested and be able to advise on a beneficial solution

• Excellent planning and organising skills with the ability to deal with ambiguity when needed.

• Desire to challenge and build on existing practices, to positively impact the business and support the overall business strategy.

What would set you apart:

To succeed in this role, you will need to be passionate about engaging and training people to deliver results. Building relationships with stakeholders will come naturally, as will working at pace and being inspiring in your delivery. You will be customer focused, dedicated, organised and have good attention to detail whilst also wanting to be part of a great team that has fun!

At Travelodge, we believe that behaviours are just as important as the activities you carry out. The ones we look for in every colleague are:

I care about people

• I treat everyone in a way I would like to be treated

• I am easy to work with

• I have a can-do attitude

• I care about the impact my work has on others

  
  

I pay attention to detail

• I do the little things that make a difference to our customers

• I work to brand standards

• I treat Travelodge time, equipment and stock as if it were my own

  
  

I drive for results

• I hit targets in my role and work at the right pace

• I take ownership of problems and try to fix them fast

• I look for ways to avoid future problems

• I look for ways to promote Travelodge

  
  

What you can expect from us

Culture

At Travelodge, we are warm, straightforward and optimistic. We have a big footprint in the UK, but still a small company feel and you can expect quality and value to be built into everything we do. You’ll have the support of a close network of colleagues and managers, and every day is different here! We want you to bring your personality to work and we love our diversity.

Reward and recognition

It’s not just our customers we want to wake up with a smile on their face. As well as a competitive salary, being part of our hotel support centre means great holiday entitlements, pension contribution deals, being part of our bonus scheme, and a Thanks Card giving generous room and food discounts as well as friends and family rates.

Career and development

We want you to develop further with us at Travelodge and we’ll provide you a development plan to help you reach your goals. You can expect to have full induction and training relevant to your role. We advertise all our vacancies internally, so you’ll have the opportunity to really develop your career with Travelodge.