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: design sessions that flow, land, and create behavioural shift
• Scenario design: build credible real‑world decision points, trade‑offs, and consequences
• Facilitator empathy: design for delivery reality (timings, prompts, group dynamics)
• Eliminate jargon, keep it usable for mixed audiences; iterative mindset: prototype quickly and improve 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

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