Job Description
At Skillsoft, we believe skills fuel growth. Our mission is to empower every organization and every learner to turn constant change into continuous growth. As part of the team, your skills will help organizations understand what skills they have, what they need next, and how to apply them in ways that drive real performance and progress.
Learning Engagement Consultant
Skillsoft is seeking a Learning Engagement Consultant to deliver a portfolio of standard and bespoke engagements across multiple customers. The Engagement Consultant is responsible for planning and executing projects, ensuring delivery is completed on time, within scope, and to the required quality standards.
Engagements may include facilitating live and virtual learning sessions; designing and delivering workshops; supporting the development and execution of customer learning strategies; creating marketing and enablement materials; curating content; building blended learning programmes; conducting needs analysis; advising on learning and development best practices; and measuring impact through reporting and evaluation.
In this role, you will build strong, trusted relationships with customer stakeholders to ensure a high-quality experience throughout the engagement and to deliver clear value aligned to contractual objectives. You will also collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across Professional Services, Sales, Customer Success, and other teams as required to support successful delivery.
Responsibilities
- Manage the delivery of service engagements for Skillsoft clients, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to quality standards.
- Partner with account teams to support customer-specific programme needs, including stakeholder engagement, content alignment to competency models and training needs, reporting, change management to support learning adoption, marketing and communications, and global rollouts,
- Act as the primary point of contact for customers during service engagements, operating within contractual parameters.
- Lead and participate in virtual customer meetings to understand business needs.
- Develop and maintain project plans, tracking actions, risks, and issues throughout delivery.
- Identify delivery risks and issues, escalating appropriately to support timely resolution.
- Provide regular project status updates to account teams and management.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Skillsoft offerings, certification pathways, product releases, and L&D best practices to align solutions with customer needs.
- Build a solid understanding of customer business and learning objectives to support effective consulting recommendations.
- Engage in continuous professional development and adapt positively to change.
Skills & Qualifications Required
- 2+ years’ experience in learning facilitation, leadership development, learning strategy, and/or learning measurement and ROI, supported by a relevant university degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong experience using virtual delivery and collaboration tools to support learning and client engagement.
- Advanced proficiency in desktop applications (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) with the ability to quickly adopt new tools and technologies.
- Experience or familiarity with the digital learning market.
- Working knowledge of LMS and LCMS platforms, ideally including experience integrating learning content with LMS environments.
- Understanding of adult learning principles and their practical application in learning design and delivery.
- Ability to apply L&D theories and methodologies and provide recommendations and best-practice guidance to meet diverse customer needs.
- Strong analytical capability, with experience interpreting data to generate insights, recommendations, and reporting aligned to customer learning goals.
- Excellent customer service skills, with confidence working in a client-facing role.
- Solid project, time, and organisational management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
MORE ABOUT SKILLSOFT:
Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is a global leader in AI-native skills management for the human + AI era. By unifying learning, real-time skills intelligence, and workforce insights, Skillsoft helps enterprises build their Skillforce™ — humans and AI working together to drive measurable business outcomes. Through personalized, interactive learning across leadership, technology, and compliance, Skillsoft enables organizations to close critical skill gaps and accelerate transformation. Skillsoft is trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 1000, and supports a global community of more than 105 million learners. Learn more at skillsoft.com.
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