Learning and Capability Business Partner

About The Role

We're looking for a Learning & Capability Business Partner to lead skills based capability development across our legal practice groups, focused on the specific legal practice skills lawyers need to deliver high quality legal work.

This is a specialist role that blends hands on instructional design with strategic business partnering. You'll design structured, skills based learning pathways and high quality content - and you'll work closely with partners and senior lawyers to shape content, challenge unnecessary complexity and ensure learning is focused on the skills that matter most.

You'll own skills based capability planning (focused on specific legal practice skills), the design architecture that shapes how those skills are developed and applied in real work, and the learner experience.

You won't teach law or build digital assets, but you will guide SMEs on how to design effective, well sequenced learning that supports high quality legal work.

Key Requirements

• Build strong relationships with practice groups to understand their capability needs and priorities
• Work closely with Compliance to ensure a clear, comprehensive and up to date portfolio of compliance learning that meets the firm's regulatory and professional obligations
• Develop annual skills based capability plans that define the specific legal practice skills required at each role and experience level for each practice group
• Identify emerging learning needs across practice groups (e.g., new legal topics or firm wide skills such as effective use of LLMs) and shape appropriate learning responses

Design high quality, skills based learning

• Design structured, skills based learning pathways and high quality content focused on legal practice skills
• Partner with SMEs to shape technical learning around clear skills and outcomes
• Influence partners and senior lawyers on content focus, sequencing and learning quality
• Act as a quality gate for SME led learning and maintain design standards
• Evaluate learning quality to improve clarity, structure and learner experience
• Create scripts and storyboards for simple digital learning as needed, and brief external developers to build the final packages

Support onboarding and light delivery

• Coordinate skills based onboarding and deliver one or two light sessions during trainee induction
• Deliver occasional light skills based sessions (e.g., simple system skills) where helpful to support practice needs
• Lead action planning activities to help trainees apply induction learning

What were looking for:

• Have experience in L&D, capability development or learning design in professional services or a regulated environment
• Enjoy translating complex technical input into clear, structured learning
• Can influence senior stakeholders and guide SMEs toward effective design
• Are confident designing skills based learning journeys and content
• Value clarity, structure and high quality learner experience

What we offer:

Flexible working

You'll work in a hybrid way, balancing home working with purposeful time in the office for collaboration, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement.

Health and wellbeing

Cycle to work scheme, in person yoga, subsidised on site weekly chiropractor visits and regular wellbeing events.

Excellent rewards and benefits

A competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave entitlement with option to buy/sell annual leave, enhanced family leave, health cash plan, life assurance, recognition schemes, yoga classes, regular social events, and lots more.

A great location and working environment

City centre offices with excellent facilities including an onsite chef in our Cardiff Office.

We are committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment. We encourage equality and diversity and treat all job applicants and colleagues fairly - regardless of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, religion or any religious or cultural beliefs, marital status and civil partnership, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity. We have no tolerance for discrimination.

Here, we can be ourselves, succeed on merit, and grow with people from all walks of life.

Important Notice to Recruitment Agencies

Please note that Capital operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for recruitment. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies not on our current PSL. If a CV is submitted to us without prior agreement and outside of our current PSL, we reserve the right to contact the candidate directly without incurring any agency fees.