Talent Development Specialist (Technical Learning)
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
Your opportunity
We are a growing, dynamic People team who are passionate about placing the employee experience at the heart of everything we do at Ridge and creating a culture where people can thrive and do their best work.
Whilst we are advertising this role for our Solihull office, you could equally be based in our Plymouth or Oxford offices, as our team is co-located around the UK.
Reporting into the Learning & Development Lead, as a Talent Development Specialist, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering technical learning at Ridge. Working closely with the wider Talent Development team, you will support our people with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to succeed—particularly in navigating chartership pathways, using key systems and tools, and developing their technical capabilities.
This role will have a strong focus on:
- Supporting chartership and professional qualification training such as CPDs across our disciplines.
- Developing and delivering technical training on our systems and platforms, such as Workspace.
- Creating high-quality learning content for our Learning Management System (LMS), ‘Empower’, ensuring learning is accessible, engaging, and aligned to business needs.
This is a highly collaborative role where you will work closely with internal subject matter experts, system owners, and professional bodies to ensure our people have clear, supported routes to develop their technical skills and gain professional accreditation.
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape technical learning at Ridge. You’ll join a growing, purpose-driven People Team dedicated to fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development. You’ll play a key role in helping our people thrive—through great systems, clear career pathways, and high-impact learning experiences.
What you need to do to be effective in this role
- Support chartership and professional development at Ridge by helping to build and deliver structured learning pathways, guidance, and training aligned to key institutions (e.g. RICS, ICE, RIBA).
- Coordinate and deliver training for Workspace and other core technical systems, helping teams adopt tools and work more effectively across the project lifecycle.
- Design, develop and maintain digital learning content for Empower LMS, including e-learning modules, videos, user guides, checklists, and interactive tools to support both systems training and technical development.
- Work with subject matter experts to translate technical content into practical, accessible training.
- Facilitate engaging live training sessions (both in-person and virtually), tailored to learner needs and experience levels.
- Support ongoing CPD by developing and promoting relevant technical learning opportunities across disciplines.
- Gather feedback and track learning outcomes, using data and insights to refine and improve content and delivery.
- Stay up to date with updates to key systems, qualifications, and training best practices, ensuring our learning offer remains current and impactful.
- Champion a learning culture, making it easy and motivating for people to engage with technical development.
The skills and experience you need to have for this role
You'll be passionate about helping people grow in their careers and someone who enjoys making complex information into simple, practical, and engaging learning. You should be naturally collaborative, tech-savvy, and comfortable working across diverse disciplines. While previous experience in the built environment - particularly in supporting training on platforms like Workspace or other technical systems - is advantageous, the following skills are essential for success in this role:
- Experience designing and delivering technical training
- Familiarity with chartership/professional qualification pathways in disciplines such as Engineering, Architecture, or Surveying.
- Confidence in delivering engaging training sessions both virtually and in person.
- Willingness to travel across our offices to deliver training and engage with key stakeholders.
- Skilled at developing digital learning content (e.g., e-learning, videos, guides, microlearning).
- Experience using or supporting LMS platforms—including content upload, management, and reporting.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple training projects and priorities.
About us
We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.
Our 1,000+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They’re the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.
Come and join us if you’re hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you’re motivated by ingenuity and if you’re always aspiring to be the very best.
Your benefits
The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.
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We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.
A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.
A polite note to recruitment agencies
We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.
Note to recruitment agencies
We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.
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