Job Specifications
This 18 month fixed term contract (FTC) offers the opportunity to shape the capability and confidence of colleagues working across technical and regulatory areas of the Bank of England. This role designs, delivers and continually improves technical and regulatory learning that supports the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Market Infrastructure Directorate (FMID).
As the UK's central bank, the quality of learning provided directly supports regulatory effectiveness and contributes to the Bank's wider mission to maintain financial stability, making this role both meaningful and impactful. It is a rare opportunity to contribute to learning that truly matters, in a place unlike any other.
About The Team
This role sits within the Technical Training team, which supports PRA and FMID colleagues in building the technical skills and knowledge required to be competent and compliant in role. The work directly supports the PRA's objective to ensure the safety and soundness of firms and the avoidance of disorderly failure, and the FMID's role in maintaining the resilience of financial market infrastructure.
The Technical Training team is a subset of the wider Learning and Organisational Development (L&OD) team, which empowers colleagues across the Bank to develop skills, knowledge, and capabilities to thrive. They are responsible for the central learning offering, facilitating the Bank's core technical and human skills, new joiner experience, internal apprenticeships, digital learning solutions and wider learning resources and capabilities.
The L&OD team is part of the Organisational Capability & Effectiveness (OC&E) function, which equips the Bank with the knowledge and culture needed for high performance. OC&E is part of the People Strategy & Insights (PS&I) division in the People Directorate, which attracts, develops, supports, and retains the people the Bank needs to fulfil its mission.
About This Role
Technical trainers deliver trainer-led sessions across our technical curriculum, in both the physical and virtual classroom, supporting new joiners and colleagues in developing the capabilities required to become competent and compliant in role. The curriculum covers governance, risk and financial markets, as well as the internal supervisory approach for PRA and FMID regulated firms.
Alongside delivery, this role designs and updates learning content to ensure materials remain accurate, current and engaging. This role involves developing new solutions using best‑practice learning design principles to support learning transfer and inclusivity.
This role works closely with business areas to ensure regulatory developments are reflected in the learning framework and collaborates with L&OD colleagues to ensure alignment with wider learning provision. This role also contributes to managing the wider Regulatory Learning Framework (RLF), working with internal subject matter experts (SMEs) and external learning suppliers.
Main Role Responsibilities
Deliver high-quality learning to a variety of audiences: new joiners and those longer in role looking to develop, and to colleagues with a range of knowledge and experience, across supervision and policy roles and seniority.
Design, update and enhance materials and the learning offer.
Work collaboratively with SMEs across the PRA, FMID and wider Bank to ensure learning offer remains current, accurate and aligned to organisational needs.
Translate complex regulatory concepts into engaging, accessible blended learning.
Support the management and continuous improvement of the RLF, including maintain effective relationships with external suppliers.
Partner with business areas and colleagues to support them problem-solve learning needs.
Evaluate the impact that learning solutions, using insights to inform improvements.
Maintain accurate learning records, produce and analyse management information (MI), and ensure effective communication about the learning offer.
Support and partner with the wider L&OD team to elevate performance, enhance the learning offer, and strengthen strategic problem‑solving - building on an already respected and trusted function to further grow its credibility and increase the amount of work we can confidently insource over time.
Role Requirements
Minimum Criteria
Technical and regulatory knowledge covering PRA and FMID objectives and regulated firms, governance, risk management, financial markets.
Relevant experience covering one or more of the following:
Supervisory or regulatory experience within or alongside the PRA; or
Financial services experience giving strong understanding of business models, markets and prudential concepts; or
Specialist regulatory experience in areas such as governance, risk management, capital and liquidity, or financial accounting and analysis.
Facilitation and delivery skills, with the ability to apply an understanding of how adults learn to create engaging sessions and support learner participation and