Manager, Professional Education Team, Learning, Human Resources - 12 Month Secondment/FTC

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The development of our people is a key component of our People Priorities, and our Employee Value Proposition. Our role is to support the performance and growth of around 20,000 colleagues that collectively comprise Deloitte UK. Our Talent and Learning mission is to “Measurably improve the experience and performance of colleagues at Deloitte”. Learning is a vital component of our employee experience.

Deloitte is one of the largest student employers in the UK. In total, we support around 4,000 students on Apprentice and Graduate programmes, providing a broad range of work experience and formal learning and development opportunities. Our Professional Education team plays a key role in building the technical knowledge and skills of our Graduates and School Leavers through design and delivery of their Professional Qualification pathways ensuring they respond to business need and are setting our students up to successfully achieve their qualification and progress in their career.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

Investing in our people is paramount to our success. Professional education is a critical component of our early career experience, directly impacting talent development, retention, and ultimately, business outcomes. As a Manager within the Professional Education Team, you will play a vital role in shaping the future of professional education at Deloitte, driving innovation to maximise the value we deliver to both our people and our clients.

This high impact role within the Professional Education Team offers the opportunity to shape the future of professional education at Deloitte. You'll drive innovation to maximise value for our people and clients, working closely with the Head of Professional Education and partners across the firm. Your leadership will help to guide a team of qualification managers, aligning with Deloitte's strategic priorities. By leveraging your understanding of professional education and business acumen, you'll contribute to developing and implementing a world-class strategy that supports learners and meets evolving business needs. Collaboration is key, as you'll partner with stakeholders across HR to transform our Professional Education offering and integrate it with broader talent initiatives.

Working with the Head of Professional Education, your role will include:

Programme Transformation, Design and Development

• Playing a key role in the transformation of our Early Career Audit Training Model, collaborating with Audit stakeholders to ensure alignment with evolving business needs and optimising student success.
• Undertaking Learning Needs Analyses to anticipate and address the evolving skills requirements of the business, proactively identifying and implementing innovative professional qualification solutions.
• Playing a key role in the transition to the 'Next Gen ACA' qualification, and apprenticeship levy changes to minimize disruption and maximize benefits.
• Leveraging professional qualification expertise and data-driven insights to continuously review and enhance apprenticeship, and firm-wide qualification offerings, ensuring they remain aligned with business needs and reflect best practices.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Facilitating strategic engagement with partners in Audit and Assurance and firmwide to shape the vision and direction of our professional education offerings, ensuring alignment with business objectives and a consistent, high-quality student experience.
• Collaborating with partners to support the development and implementation of governance frameworks, policies, and processes that enhance the quality and impact of our professional education programmes.
• Building and nurturing relationships with key HR stakeholders to optimise the student experience, from recruitment and onboarding through to professional qualification and beyond.

Operational Delivery/Third party management

• Overseeing the operational delivery of professional education programmes, ensuring a seamless, high-quality experience for students and their managers.
• Playing a key role in the relationship with Central Business Services and the Student Advisory Service team to define, monitor, and continuously improve service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Supporting the development and management of strategic partnerships with apprenticeship and professional education providers, ensuring alignment with Deloitte's quality standards and business objectives.
• Representing Deloitte in engagements with external professional bodies, such as the ICAEW, to influence policy development and ensure compliance with industry standards.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW or ICAS)(or equivalent) with experience in professional education and development, specializing in accounting and tax qualifications (e.g. ACA, ICAS, CFAB, CIMA).
• Experience of supporting professional qualification programs within a complex, matrixed organization.
• Understanding of apprenticeship policy, levy funding rules, and early careers development frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to build relationships and collaborate with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong business acumen and analytical skills, with experience using data and insights to contribute to strategic decision-making and measure programme effectiveness.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex information to a variety of audiences, both written and verbally.
• Project management experience, with experience of delivering initiatives on time and within budget.
• People management experience.
• Strong team working skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively to achieve ambitious goals.
• Proficient in utilizing digital platforms and analytical tools to enhance program delivery and effectiveness.
• Experience of the professional services industry is highly desirable.

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Human Resources

At Deloitte, Human Resources is transforming. We are already an award-winning HR team but we’re not resting there. We want to make an impact that matters for our people, our clients and for society. To achieve this, we're firmly embedding HR into the business, advising and innovating along with our business leaders.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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"The amount of investment in me in terms of training and development has been incredible - it has undoubtedly helped me to progress my career." - Jim, Enabling Functions

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

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