Learning and Development Consultant

ABOUT AAB

DISCOVER YOUR POTENTIAL. BUILD YOUR CAREER. JOIN US AT AAB.

AAB is a leading professional services firm operating across the UK, Ireland, and the USA. We specialise in the mid‑market, supporting individuals, family businesses, and organisations with a full suite of services including audit, tax, corporate finance, payroll, people consultancy, and wealth management. With 1,000+ team members, we deliver expert support to clients all over the world.

Final date to receive applications: 6 March 2026

Department: HR Consultancy

Location:

Belfast

EVERYONE HAS THE ABILITY TO SUCCEED – WE’LL HELP YOU GET THERE.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We succeed together as one team, building strong client relationships through passion, empathy, and straightforward advice. That’s what makes AAB different. We invest in brilliant talent across every area of the business, offering tailored training, professional qualifications, and continuous support to help you grow.

Your growth matters to us. We’ll give you the tools, encouragement, and opportunities to lead, learn, and make an impact. Guided by our six core values, we foster a culture where collaboration, trust, and enthusiasm thrive.

AABSOLUTELY DEDICATED TO HELPING YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS.

At AAB, your career is what you make it. We are here to help you turn ambition into action, whether that’s becoming a technical expert, a future leader, or someone who simply makes a difference every day. If you're ready to be part of a team that’s united by purpose and driven by values, we’d love to hear from you.

We take our responsibility seriously. From reducing our environmental impact, to supporting education through training and talent programmes, to giving back to our local communities with our charitable initiative ABBIE – ESG is part of who we are.

Key duties & responsibilities

• Design engaging, experiential and evidence‑based learning solutions that build practical capability people can apply immediately
• Focus on developing skills that improve everyday performance and effectiveness, particularly for individual contributors and people managers
• Typical themes include:
  • Personal effectiveness
  • Management and leadership
  • Communicating with impact
  • Resilience under pressure
  • Problem solving and critical thinking
  • Decision making
  • Performance management
  • Having difficult conversations
• Translate organisational and performance challenges into clear, relevant and practical learning experiences
• Tailor content to different organisational contexts, sectors and levels, ensuring relevance and credibility
• Continuously improve programmes using insight from delivery, participant feedback and impact data
• A key part of the role is staying curious and current – bringing the latest thinking in learning, leadership and management into programmes that are practical, engaging and unmistakably aligned to our brand.

• Facilitate high‑impact learning experiences (in‑person and virtual) that are interactive, practical and engaging
• Create learning environments that encourage reflection, challenge, experimentation and behaviour change
• Support participants to build confidence and capability in how they lead themselves and others
• Build strong rapport and credibility with participants at all levels, from early‑career professionals to senior managers
• Use a range of facilitation approaches including discussion, questioning, practice, feedback and reflective learning

• Work collaboratively with clients to ensure learning is aligned to real work challenges and performance needs
• Represent the consultancy with professionalism, credibility and warmth across a diverse client base
• Support simple programme evaluation and impact measurement
• Manage multiple programmes and deliveries simultaneously in a busy consultancy environment

• Actively contribute to a supportive, high‑trust team culture
• Share learning, insight and facilitation practice with colleagues
• Contribute to innovation and continuous improvement across the consultancy’s learning offer

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Proven…