Training Specialist (Bahrain)

Training Specialist (Bahrain)

This role is a Two-Year Contract position located in our client’s Manama offices

Role Purpose

Our client seeks a Training Specialist to join them on a temporary basis (2 years) to support the development of their functional academies for support divisions.

The Training Specialist will manage the competency profiles of the support divisions and provide specific support for programmes supporting the different disciplines by the formulation of Academies with specific programmes for employee development and transversal development purposes.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of self-help toolkits for use of employees.
• Support the team’s knowledge management strategy and expand on it as required.
• Revise reporting templates, review indicators, and contribute to the development of a knowledge exchange annual performance report.
• Collaborate with the Training team to align with and provide sufficient support for online, virtual, and in-person training and other learning events.
• Work with subject-matter experts to develop, design, and publish knowledge assets in both written and multimedia formats.
• Develop and implement a competency framework for support divisions by providing a unique position requirement per position.
• Manage the competencies and training of support employees based on the position requirements
• Create and implement programmes targeting the specific division with respect to the development of staff.
• Create and institutionalize the concept of self-directed learning and life-long learning concept within the Academies to support employees

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in developing, applying and supporting successful functional Academies in practice together with processes and policies.

• Demonstrated experience in maintaining a competency-based training system
• Ability to maintain a competency framework aligned with specific position requirements and coordinate the development of employees based on this framework.
• Demonstrated experience operating as a successful and collaborative team member in a variety of organizational cultures.
• Demonstrated experience working in diverse environments and considering differences in culture, ability, access to resources, and other factors.
• Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure, successfully balancing competing priorities and demands.
• Demonstrated experience developing knowledge and training resources.
• Demonstrated experience developing functional academies and training resources.
• A successful candidate must have strong interpersonal, organizational, facilitation, collaboration, and oral/written communication skills.
• The candidate must be reliable, able to adapt, work well on a team, and able to work well under time constraints and in a remote/virtual working environment.
• Computer proficiency is required. Knowledge of MS Office products, Virtual platforms (Teams), project management software and tools are required.
• Understands and has experience in the use of adult-based learning techniques (Andragogy)
• Must be comfortable with learning new and emerging technologies.

• Bachelors degree required
• Fluency in the English language
• At least 10 years of relevant experience
• Experience working for an organization with 3000K + employees
• 5+ years of specialized experience in functional academics
• 5+ years of specialized experience in training facilitation (for in-person and virtual learning settings)