Senior Learning Designer

Job Title: Senior Learning Designer
Location: London, SE1 8SW, UK
Job Type: Full-time contract, 12 months
Work Model: Hybrid (In the office for 3 days per week in the office but flexible - travel will be required)

Essential:
Proven and demonstratable experience in the end to end design of behavioural change learning interventions for senior leaders
Ability to interface with and manage director level stakeholders, proposing solutions in a complex stakeholder environment
5 years experience working in L&D
Ability to work at pace and deliver polished outputs.
Proven senior learning design capability with scenario-based/immersive elements.
Strong stakeholder skills with SMEs and senior leaders.
Ability to work at pace and deliver polished outputs

Key Responsibilities:
Translate insight themes and curriculum architecture into:
modules and session designs
immersive scenarios and simulation mechanics
participant reflection and application tools
Co-design content with SMEs across rail (customer, operations, safety, performance, commercial).
Produce facilitator guides and delivery prompts that enable consistent delivery.

Ensure design aligns to:
GBR culture pillars and leadership expectations
psychological safety and inclusive learning principles
practical application to leaders' roles
Support pilots and testing: observe, gather feedback, iterate quickly.
Maintain design quality and consistency using agreed standards.
Learning design craft: can design sessions that flow, land, and create behavioural shift.
Scenario design: builds credible real world decision points, trade-offs, and consequences.
Facilitator empathy: designs for delivery reality (timings, prompts, group dynamics).
Eliminates jargon, keeps it usable for mixed audiences. Iterative mindset: prototypes quickly and improves through feedback

Experience & Background:
6-10+ years in learning design/LXD/instructional design (senior level).
Strong evidence of designing scenario-based workshops, simulations/case environments and senior leader development interventions
Comfortable working with SMEs and operational leaders to capture authentic content.
Ideally has knowledge of rail/transport operations OR has designed for complex operational environments.