Learning and Development Specialist at Egbin Power Plc

Egbin Power Plc. Lagos is one of the biggest additions to the electricity industry in Nigeria. Often seen as the biggest single generating power station in Sub-Saharan Africa, it was built to meet the every rising demand for electricity in Lagos and its environs.

Following the nation’s privatization exercise, Sahara, through its power division, Sahara Power Group and sundry affiliations, acquired the 1320 MW installed capacity Egbin Power Plant. We are working towards deploying a minimum of 5,000 MW of electricity generation over the next five years.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Learning and Development Specialist

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• To assist in the design & delivery, assessment, monitoring and evaluation of staff’s learning and developmental needs.
• Responsible for coordinating the delivery of all in-house training and keep up-to-date on all legislation impacting the company’s training obligations, responding to training issues and questions from staff.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support during in-house training and learning and development programmes
• Organize the resources required to perform training sessions
• Monitor and review the progress of trainees
• Keeping up to date with changes to laws and legislation and providing regular updates to the departments affected
• Continual refinement of training programs and course material based on best practice and feedback from others
• Monitoring and tracking training attendance at both in-house training and at external locations
• Provide accurate administration and record keeping for all training programmes
• Handle and provide critical support for all training activities.
• Responsible for I.T.F renditions and reimbursement; act as the operational interface between I.T.F and the finance team.
• Analyze staff training requirements, you will take into account their functional area, developmental need and competency framework and respond to their training request in a timely manner
• Liaise with the team leads and HOD and Technical L&D to build training plans and advise team heads on the most suitable training approaches
• Schedule the best courses and vendors.
• Maintain administer the training scheduling system and training spreadsheet annually.
• Collating data and reporting on attendance, feedback and training cost, to ensure data is accurate and up to date, to allow management to make strategic business decisions
• Assist in designing the training and development programmes, including producing the training materials for in-house training.
• Ensure that all statutory training requirements are met.
• Development and delivery of effective induction programmes for IT students and Youth Service Corp members.

Education and Work Experience

First Degree or its equivalent in Humanities or Social Sciences related discipline

• Professional qualification in HR Management is a MUST
• Three (3) - five (5) years post N.Y.S.C relevant experience in a training environment
• Must be knowledgeable about the workings of I.T.F.

Skills and Competencies:

• Demonstrate the ability to self-motivate and work independently.
• Possess a can-do attitude, able to find creative solutions to training challenges.
• Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple deliverable and training request.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office, with experience in other business systems.
• Experience in training administration or customer facing position adopting a customer first approach in meeting staff training expectations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, you can articulate clearly what is expected or required of trainers and partners.
• Highly accurate with good attention to detail, you respond to staff in a professional manner.
• Logical and structured approach required to manage a busy training inbox, filing, responding and tracking partner training requests.
• Excellent time management.
• Enthusiastic and embrace change.
• Must be assertive and approachable.

Application Closing Date
Friday; 2nd September, 2022.