Manager of Learning & Development

We’ve opened a role for a talented, entrepreneurial Manager of Learning & Development to work alongside the exceptional people in the People & Culture team. This role is suitable for someone with:

• Seasoned, hands-on expertise in learning and development, with a track record of 10+ years building employee and leadership programs in a professional services environment that turn organizational priorities into real growth for people.
• A flair for instructional design and facilitation, grounded in adult learning principles, using modern tools and technology, and the confidence to engage any room, from new hires to senior leaders.
• A results-driven mindset, using data, AI, learning systems, and smart decisions to show what’s working, what isn’t, and where to go next.
• A passion for career growth, and a clear sense of how competency frameworks, onboarding, mentorship, and succession planning fit together to build long, rewarding careers
• A talent for rallying people, bringing directors, subject matter experts, and external partners together around shared priorities, and guiding people through change as new programs take root.
• An appetite to build something lasting, creating a consistent, measurable, and scalable approach to employee growth across a growing network of offices.

You’ll be joining a Platinum Club member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program; a 100% employee-owned firm that has a long-established reputation for quality. You will lead JLR’s learning and development programs, ensuring that our people’s skills and capabilities keep pace with organizational growth and evolving ways of working. This will include strengthening leadership development, stewarding our competency frameworks, and building practical learning pathways, while ensuring every JLR employee has the support to do their best work.

JLR is a creative, tight-knit, and mentorship-focused community with unique opportunities for driven people with tenacity and spirit. Our organization is made up of diverse employee owners with specialized expertise in a wide range of disciplines. Joining the JLR team means joining a dynamic group of innovative architecture, engineering, and planning professionals and support staff. If you’re innovative and collaborative, thrive when presented with new challenges, and are eager to take your career in new directions, then JLR is the right environment for you.

Your Role as Manager of Learning & Development

Let’s talk about how your skills, experience, goals, and passions can find a home at JLR. This is a chance to shape how people grow at a firm where development is a genuine priority. Working closely with the Director of People & Culture and leaders across JLR, you’ll:

Build the foundation

o Help shape JLR’s firm-wide learning strategy and align it with business priorities.

o Steward a new program outlining competency-based frameworks across the firm and connect the new system to career progression and succession planning.

o Conduct training needs analyses and recommend targeted development initiatives.

o Support the development of role-specific onboarding and learning pathways and development resources.

o Guide people through change as new programs roll out.

Grow our people

o Coordinate leadership development, performance, mentorship, and succession planning programs.

o Work with directors and subject matter experts to select and manage external training providers.

o Design and facilitate engaging training.

o Research and recommend internal and external tools, programs, and development opportunities, incorporating technology and AI as appropriate.

o Oversee the management of training logistics, scheduling, registrations, and participant tracking, and respond to ad hoc training requests.

o Steward the deployment of individual training plans that help employees map their growth.

Measure what matters

o Maintain our learning systems and keep training records accurate.

o Track participation and program effectiveness and share insights through clear reporting.

o Monitor learning spend to ensure training investments deliver meaningful outcomes.

o Serve as the go-to contact for learning system support.

o Use feedback and results to continuously improve our programs.

Why Join Us?

We live, work, breathe, sleep, and thrive in the communities we build. We love northern Ontario and the glorious bounty of the natural world and we’re proud of our reputation and longevity in the National Capital and Kingston regions. Furthermore, we’re growing our presence in southwestern Ontario and all along the Great Lakes of Ontario.

We foster a friendly, welcoming, and team-oriented atmosphere that encourages innovation and collaboration. We have an established depth of technical and support resources that can efficiently and effectively deliver small and large multidisciplinary projects. We provide flexible career direction with opportunities to choose your own path and interesting and exciting assignments ranging in size and type.

Employee Ownership and Career Growth

• 100% employee-owned
• Salary Range: $90,000 to $110,000
• Share ownership opportunities at all levels
• Merit and profit bonus program
• Competitive salaries reviewed annually
• Career Mentorship Program

Work-life Balance and Employee Wellness

• Immediate health and dental benefits
• RRSP/DPSP matching program
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working
• Parental leave top-up program
• Fun Funds to plan extracurricular social events

Community Engagement and Social Responsibility

· Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee

· Environmental Sustainability Committee

· Reconciliation Action Plan Committee

· Local fundraising and community building events

Application Instructions

Interested in joining our team? Send us a cover letter and resume outlining your skills, qualifications, and the specific experiences that make you an ideal candidate for the position by emailing careers@jlrichards.ca.

This posting is for a current vacancy, but we’re always open to great talent, even if it’s not exactly what we’ve posted. Check out our open positions or send us a cover letter and resume outlining your skills, qualifications, and the specific experiences to careers@jlrichards.ca.

JLR welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

At JLR, each of us contributes to inclusion and we all have a role to play. Our culture is the result of our behaviours, our personal commitment, our curiosity, how we collaborate, and the ways that we courageously share our perspectives and encourage others to do the same. In turn, our environment inspires us to try new things, speak openly, and be bold. It brings us together in ways that help us stand out. Our inclusive culture empowers all of us to connect, belong, and grow. Learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.