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 Specialist
Skillsoft is seeking a Learning Specialist to deliver a portfolio of standard and bespoke engagements across multiple customers. The Learning Specialist is responsible for ensuring that all projects are delivered in line with the defined project plan and meeting the quality standards required. These projects may include supporting and coordinating live learning sessions, creating marketing plans and learning communications, curating learning content aligned to customer goals, advising customers on learning and platform best practices, measuring learning impact, analysing results, and producing reports. You will also be required to support other learning and development activities as required. A key part of the role is building strong, trusted relationships with external stakeholders to ensure a positive and engaging customer experience throughout the project lifecycle, and to deliver clear value aligned to the customer’s contractual objectives. The Learning Specialist will also establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal stakeholders across the organisation, collaborating as needed to support successful project delivery. This role is ideal for someone who is highly organised, confident communicating with stakeholders, and comfortable managing multiple activities across different customers while maintaining a strong focus on quality and customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Manage the delivery of service engagements for Skillsoft clients, ensuring work is completed on time, within scope, and to required quality standards.
- Partner with account teams to support customer‑specific programme needs, including aligning content to competency models and training needs, producing custom reporting, supporting change management to drive learning adoption, creating marketing and communication activities to increase solution awareness
- Act as a primary point of contact and liaison between Skillsoft and the customer for assigned service engagements, within the parameters of the contract.
- Conduct and participate in virtual customer meetings to gather, clarify, and understand customer business needs related to the services provided.
- Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of course and curriculum offerings, certification tracks, and new or updated versions of Percipio and Skillsoft products and proactively advise customers of relevant changes.
- Develop and maintain project plans, tracking actions, risks, and issues throughout delivery.
- Provide regular project status updates to management and account teams, including maintaining accurate records of meeting notes, actions, and project issues.
- Escalate issues that may impact customer relationships or delivery outcomes to Skillsoft management and relevant internal teams for resolution.
- Build a strong understanding of customer programme goals to inform recommendations and ensure services deliver clear, measurable value.
- Actively participate in professional development opportunities to support continuous learning and role effectiveness.
Skills & Qualifications
- 2+ years’ experience in a Learning and Development role preferably including content curation, learning facilitation, leadership development, and/or reporting and administration.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ability to conduct business in a virtual environment, working with multiple virtual teams.
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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