Professional Skills Trainer

What you'll be doing

As our Professional Skills Trainer, you’ll design, deliver, and continuously improve a range of professional development training programmes that support engineers and technical professionals throughout their careers.

You’ll deliver engaging face-to-face and online courses to a wide range of audiences, including members, non-members, and employer organisations. Alongside delivery, you’ll play an important role in shaping and evolving the training portfolio, helping ensure our learning offering remains relevant, innovative and aligned with customer needs and IET priorities.

This is a varied role that combines training delivery, course development, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement. You’ll work closely with colleagues across the Professional Development team to create high-quality learning experiences that provide real value and impact for delegates.

You’ll also help maintain and improve course materials, contribute ideas for new training products, and support the effective use of online learning platforms. Building strong relationships with customers, trainers ,and internal stakeholders will be an important part of the role, helping to drive engagement and support the long-term success of the training portfolio.

Whether you’re delivering workshops, updating learning content, or identifying opportunities to improve the customer experience, you’ll play a key role in supporting professional development across the engineering community.

What we hope you can bring to the role

We’re looking for someone with experience delivering professional training or learning programmes who is passionate about creating engaging and high-quality learning experiences.

You’ll be a confident communicator and presenter, comfortable delivering training to different audiences both in-person and online. You’ll understand how to adapt your style and content to suit different learning needs, helping delegates feel engaged, supported, and motivated.

Strong organisational skills will be important, as you’ll be managing course delivery, maintaining materials, and supporting multiple activities across the training portfolio. You’ll also be someone who enjoys improving and evolving learning content, using feedback and insight to enhance courses and delivery methods over time.

Relationship building will be a key strength. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with colleagues, customers, and external trainers, building positive partnerships and helping identify opportunities to grow and improve the training offering.

Most importantly, you’ll bring a proactive and customer-focused approach, with a genuine interest in helping people develop professionally and achieve their goals.

A little more about the role

• Deliver high-quality face-to-face and online training courses to a range of audiences.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of the training portfolio.
• Create, update, and maintain engaging course materials and learning resources.
• Adapt training delivery and content for different audiences and learning needs.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to support course planning, coordination, and delivery.
• Build strong relationships with customers, external trainers, and internal stakeholders.
• Support online learning platforms and help ensure an excellent learner experience.
• Represent the IET at training sessions and events across the UK, with some potential for international travel.
• Contribute ideas for new learning products, services, and improvements.

A little more about what we’re looking for

• Experience delivering professional training, workshops, or learning programmes.
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills, both online and face-to-face.
• Experience creating or maintaining learning materials and training content.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement and customer experience.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Confidence working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders and audiences.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office (including Excel and PowerPoint)
• Experience working with online learning platforms or digital learning tools would be beneficial.

We’d love to get to know you

Is Imposter syndrome creeping in? Don’t worry – we’d rather hear from you this time than not hear from you at all!

Download the full job description for a little more information about the role; but also, keep in mind that we’re open to discussing flexible ways of working, including reduced hours and working in an agile way, supported by a hybrid working framework that allows you to find the best place to do your best work.

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What if you could be you?

The IET is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.