Training Project Manager

University College Dublin’s Professional Academy is seeking a Corporate Training Project Manager with a strong corporate training background to drive its corporate product function.

The UCD Professional Academy focuses on delivering shorter, career-focused training to individuals across a wide variety of Professional Diploma and related courses. Housed within a commercial company owned by the University, it is a fast-paced, forward-thinking, and dynamic environment.

UCD Professional Academy offers short, sharp, focused, and impactful courses to all kinds of professionals. Accessible on learner’s terms, courses can be studied on-demand, live online and in classroom. We partner with corporate clients to deliver the skills and capabilities their organization's staff need now and into the future, helping to build a better equipped, and more engaged team.

The Corporate Learning Project Manager is a permanent role responsible for understanding corporate requirements, proposing courses and programmes that support those requirements, and ensuring the smooth delivery of all learning solutions in collaboration with other departments. The successful individual will work alongside the Head of Product & Course Development and other Learning Project Managers to apply and refine a corporate customer engagement process, understand requirements, determine course fit and feasibility, and collaborate in all aspects of preparation, delivery, corporate liaising and reporting necessary to successfully deliver to our corporate customers. The role also involves understanding our course development process, LMS administrative processes, and proposing improvements.

You will be experienced in training needs analysis, selecting and combining from a portfolio of existing courses to address specific outcomes as specified by the customer. You have project managed course delivery, including enrolments, sourcing and liaising with lecturers, arranging course logistics and reporting. You are a confident communicator, and find yourself at ease collaborating with various departments, and presenting course information to senior audiences.

Key Responsibilities:

This role is responsible for the end to end project management of the delivery. This includes:

* Scope new opportunities by engaging with the Corporate Sales team and corporate customers and understanding their needs
* Enable great learning solutions by interpreting customer needs, selecting curriculum from our existing portfolio, and creating custom solutions that address the customer’s needs
* Ensure quality by following and improving a defined corporate engagement process, documenting decisions, keeping the customer’s learning goals in mind, managing and supporting delivery, monitoring student and customer feedback, identifying and implementing improvements

Skills and Requirements:

* At least two years’ experience in training needs analysis in a corporate setting
* Experience selecting and presenting learning solutions to decision makers
* Project management experience in the entire training lifecycle, from needs analysis to course logistics, delivery, communications and final reports
* Curious and inquisitive, willing to learn more, and to learn about learning
* Course development experience a plus
* Moodle LMS experience a plus

What we can offer:

* Employee Pension
* Competitive Salary
* 10 days paid sick leave per annum
* Monthly staff recognition program
* Attractive performance based bonus
* Professional Development and training
* Paid Maternity/Paternity/Adoptive Leave
* Free access to our collection of online/in person professional diplomas
* Company events and social activities as organized by our wellness committee
* Flexible working arrangements with a commitment to facilitating remote working
* 22 days of annual leave and the company closes over Good Friday and the Christmas period in addition to this time off.

Does this sound like you? If you would like to learn more on this exciting opportunity please submit your CV or contact me for more information

UCD Professional Academy is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.