Learning Architect

At Rathbones, our purpose is to help more people invest their money well, so they can live well.

We are one of the UK’s leading providers of wealth management, investment management, financial planning and asset management services. We work with individuals and families, charities, trustees, financial advisers and other professional partners to help them make confident decisions about money and investments.

Our advisers take the time to understand each client’s goals, values and circumstances. Together, we create a personalised approach designed to manage, preserve and grow their wealth over the long term.

Our services include discretionary investment management, financial planning, fund and asset management, tax planning, trust and company management, and specialist responsible investment services through Rathbone Greenbank Investments. We also work with financial advisers to help them deliver positive outcomes for their clients.

With roots dating back to 1742, Rathbones has been trusted for generations. Today, we manage £120.7 billion of client assets*, supported by more than 700 investment professionals across 21 offices in the UK and Channel Islands.

Rathbones Group Plc is a FTSE 250-listed company.

* Figures as at 30 June 2026.

Designs and governs the overall learning architecture for the Rathbones Institute, ensuring curriculum coherence, quality, evaluation and continual improvement across all components. The role is responsible for translating the Institute vision into a clear, mastery-based curriculum architecture that develops outstanding Wealth Managers, Investment Managers, Financial Planners and Business Development professionals.

Financial services experience is essential, with previous experience within the Wealth Management sector strongly preferred.

• Own the end-to-end learning architecture for the Institute, ensuring clear pathways, coherent curriculum sequencing and alignment to graduate standards.
• Design mastery-based curricula that combine technical knowledge, applied skills, professional judgement, ethical conduct and commercial capability.
• Define curriculum standards, module design principles, assessment expectations and evidence requirements for progression gates.
• Partner with subject matter experts, trainers, coaches, assessors and business stakeholders to translate business needs into high-impact learning experiences.
• Ensure learning design reflects realistic client, market, investment, planning and conduct-risk scenarios relevant to wealth management.
• Maintain curriculum maps showing links between learning outcomes, assessments, qualifications, behavioural expectations and role readiness.
• Establish quality assurance routines for programme materials, facilitation, learner experience, assessment validity and learning transfer.
• Use learner data, evaluation outputs, stakeholder feedback and business outcomes to continually improve the Institute curriculum.
• Identify gaps in the existing learning catalogue and recommend build, buy or partner solutions to close critical capability gaps.
• Act as the design authority for Institute learning standards, ensuring consistency while allowing personalisation by learner profile and pace.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with the Institute’s Learning Experience Platform provider, professional bodies and training providers, supporting effective delivery and a positive learner experience.

If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply

• Strong experience in learning architecture, curriculum design,…