The appointment
What the business needed.
The brief
A major industrial business in Qatar needed an organisational development specialist in its Human Capital team, reporting to the Head of Learning and Development. The role covered the full learning cycle, from competency frameworks to programme evaluation, and advised leaders and employees across the company.
What made it hard
The brief combined technical depth with influence. Candidates needed current instructional design skills, authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline or Captivate, and the project-management skills to win over senior, demanding stakeholders. The role also had to support the company’s nationalisation and localisation programmes.
Who we found
A learning and development practitioner with instructional design and digital authoring skills, strong project management, and experience of working with senior leaders across cultures.
What changed
The company gained a specialist to build technical and behavioural competency frameworks for each job family, run learning needs analysis, design blended and leadership programmes, and evaluate each programme so the next run improved on the last.
Role focus
What the role covered.
Organisational Development
Competency Frameworks
Learning Design
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