Technical Training Curriculum Manager

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services. Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners. We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future.

You’ll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you’re supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one. You’ll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team. Together, we grow, belong and impact.

Our technical curriculums are a core part of the firm’s learning and development strategy and our commitment to our regulators. The successful delivery of the curriculums can help to improve staff knowledge and understanding, improve quality and help to protect the firm from reputational damage and financial sanctions.

The purpose of the Technical Training Curriculum Manager role is to assist the Director of Technical Training in the effective organisation and management of the technical curriculums across the firm.

• Liaison with subject matter experts (SMEs) for the timely creation and delivery of all curriculum content;
• Liaison with external and internal stakeholders on professional qualification and other training courses to avoid clashes and duplication of content;
• Liaison with service line business unit leads (or local “training reps”) to ensure classes are planned at the correct time period for each office or business unit around their client base and expected deadlines;
• Tracking school leavers, graduates, returning industrial placements and different pathways taken including qualifications and their requirements to ensure effective technical learning development;
• Drafting reports on the format, content and expectations of each curriculum, including planned training hours and associated training costs;
• Scheduling all curriculum classes in terms of dates, office locations, format, frequency in a clear format that can be passed over to the learning operations and administration team to set up;
• Coordinating with the Business Services team for room booking confirmations for live events;
• Ensuring that all curriculum training is appropriately reflected in the firm’s resource management system;
• Commission learning operations team to design, implement, audit all technical learning in the LMS to allow full curriculum cohort allocations for all participants;
• Collating and maintaining a list of trained facilitators and key office/business unit contacts;
• Keeping track of which facilitators need Train the Trainer (“TTT”), and arranging TTT sessions;
• Setting up facilitator run through sessions, ensuring attendance and following up as required;
• Sourcing and booking facilitators, either from the service line or centrally, for all sessions;
• Developing facilitator communications ensuring that technical learning is managed and delivered by ensuring all facilitators have access to all materials, know where to go, know what to cover;
• Ensuring class material for facilitators is accessible and kept up to date;
• Ensuring L&D operations team knows the timetable for registering participants at correct time;
• Technical curriculum budget creation and cost monitoring;
• Technical curriculum expenses review and approval;
• Coordinating with L&D operations on attendance and date changes and keeping track of regulation requirements (escalations and reporting to Employer Relations teams);
• Ensuring the mandatory learning policy is followed for all non-attendance by coordinating content creators, learning designers and Learning operations teams;
• Coordinating with SMEs for the creation of content-based knowledge checkers;
• Ensuring L&D operations are on track with their distribution and monitoring of knowledge checkers and completion;
• Collating feedback from participants and distributing to facilitators to aid performance review and self-development;
• Analysing, summarising and distributing participant and facilitator feedback to allow for future development and continuous improvement of the…