Head - Learning & Development Aldar Academies

The Head of Learning & Development will lead the design, delivery, and governance of learning strategies across Aldar Education and is pivotal in supporting the Chief People Officer and Associate Director - Talent in shaping the company s talent strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, and creating a positive employee experience.

This role drives a culture of continuous growth, ensuring all employees from school-based educators to corporate leaders have access to impactful learning opportunities that align with organizational values, talent priorities, and long-term business strategy.

u>Main Duties/u>

• Responsible for designing, developing, and delivering the learning & development strategy as part of the wider talent managementstrategy and ensuring alignment with the overall People & Culture strategy and corporate objectives.
• Drives the design and delivery of leadership development frameworks, succession pipelines, and career pathways.
• Establishes and supports with the succession planning processes to support the organization having a pipeline of leadership-ready talent.
• Partners with senior leaders to assess organizational capability gaps and design interventions that build future-ready skills.
• Leads initiatives that foster a learning culture rooted in the organization s values and strategic priorities.
• Sets up the L&D budgets and support schools during the budget process in relation to L&D related spend areas.
• Is data driven and evaluates the effectiveness of spend areas and talent strategies with data analysis and effectively communicating results and findings back to leadership.
• Contributes to an empowering, learning-focused organizational culture.

u>Specific Duties/u>

• Leads the launch of Aldar Education s schools values across the schools and work with the team to ensure integration into all learning interventions, performance processes, and leadership frameworks.
• Ensures effective implementation/usage of the Talent Hub (AI-driven learning platform), including content curation, adoption, and impact measurement, ensuring high engagement.
• Partners with internal and external learning providers, universities, and accreditation bodies to deliver quality, scalable learning experiences.
• Collaborates with the executive team to align L&D strategies with overall business objectives.
• Sets up the HQ training calendar based on TNA.
• Connects training metrics with business success metrics.
• Conducts training sessions to support effectiveness of performance enablement cycle or other regular governance trainings.
• Designs and implement leadership development pathways for emerging, middle, and senior leaders across schools and HQ.
• Develops learning analytics and metrics to measure ROI, engagement, and organizational capability growth.
• Overseas and continuously enhances the Aldar Education Teacher Graduate Programme, ensuring alignment with UAE teaching standards, school readiness, and long-term teacher retention objectives.
• Drives change management efforts for new learning technologies and strategic initiatives.
• Partners with school leadership teams to identify specific development needs and support cluster-level capability plans.
• Responsible for driving creation of inspiring (Non) Teaching graduate and internship programmes.
• Supports in leading Leadership Assessments such as 360 in line with direction from CPO/AD - Talent and ensures its follow up through coaching sessions, development plan establishment and KPI set up.
• Partners with leaders to ensure high-potential development programs are in place.
• Manages multiple projects simultaneously, working both collaboratively and independently to balance and successfully execute on project objectives and related tasks with internal and external resources as necessary.
• Creates and enhance policies and processes on the Learning & development function, in consultation with the Associate Director Talent.
• Provides excellent coaching, consultation, and facilitation skills to quickly establish and build effective communication channels.
• Ensures that organization-wide talent management initiatives are focused and aligned on improving operational and program efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Any other duties as reasonably expected.