About you
You'll be a highly organised and proactive learning professional who enjoys building relationships, delivering excellent service, and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
- Previous experience of minimum of 3 years in a Learning and Development Advisor/Business Partner role
- Strong organisational and project coordination skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities
- Experience administering learning programs and managing competing deadlines
- Confidence working with learning technologies and reporting systems
- A solutions-focused approach with strong attention to detail and initiative
Experience within a professional services, legal or corporate environment, along with exposure to LMS platforms, facilitation, instructional design or e-learning development, will be highly regarded.
Your role
As Learning & Development Advisor/Partner, you'll coordinate and support a broad range of learning initiatives across the firm, including onboarding, professional development, leadership programs, graduate development, and compliance training.
You'll be responsible for delivering an exceptional learner experience through effective program coordination, strong stakeholder engagement, accurate administration, and continuous improvement of learning processes and systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Coordinating learning programs, workshops, webinars and development initiatives
- Managing end-to-end learning logistics, communications and stakeholder engagement
- Maintaining learning records, reporting and Learning Management System (LMS) administration
- Supporting the development and enhancement of learning materials and digital content
- Providing advice and support to employees and leaders on learning opportunities and resources
- Collecting and analysing feedback, reporting on participation and learning outcomes, and identifying opportunities for improvement
- Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders, facilitators and external learning providers
This role can be based in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane and open to someone working a four-day week as well as full time.
About Gadens
Gadens is a leading, independent Australian law firm, with a clear vision and strategy for the future. We help people achieve their purpose in a complex world, by leading by example, inspiring others, innovating and building something we are all proud of.
At Gadens, we engage with all of our people to create a work environment that encourages and promotes inclusion and diversity, while instilling pride in the firm and our values of collaborate, authentic, responsible and excellent. Our values and culture assist us in creating a cohesive environment in which we are committed equally to professionalism and personal fulfilment. We strive to create a culture where the principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility are embraced and lived by our people every day. This includes respecting and connecting with First Nations people and providing access to justice to those in need through our pro bono practice. This is what makes Gadens a great place to work.
At Gadens, we:
- develop and inspire our people
- do the right thing and make an impact
- work with quality clients in our chosen markets
- solve problems with people and technology working seamlessly together
- are a widely recognised and respected brand.
What we offer
- 30 weeks paid parental leave – Our market leading policy includes 30 weeks paid parental leave for all permanent staff, with no tenure required. This includes superannuation contributions while on parental leave, an external coach to support through various stages of parental leave and support and paid leave for surrogacy and IVF treatment.
- Financial – Market-competitive fixed remuneration, a generous incentive program recognising both billable performance and broader contribution and an employee recruitment referral program.
- Flexibility – Hybrid working arrangements. This includes flexible working hours as well as equipment to support working from home.
- Annual leave - Ability to purchase up to 4 weeks of annual leave a year as well as a gifted day of leave for your birthday month which we call “Gadens day”
- Health & Wellbeing – We offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits to empower and support our people including, regular social events, employee assistant program, bonus program for non-fee earners, discounted private health insurance, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, recognition awards and much more!
- Learning & Development –We promote a culture of continuous learning opportunities including access to professional development for all employees, coaching, mentoring study support as well for further education.
- Community involvement – We give back to the community through our well-established pro bono program as well as staff volunteering initiatives.
We are always on the lookout for star performers to join our growing firm. To find out more please visit
