Learning Facilitator & Client Consultant


Company:	Common Purpose
Salary:	£38,000 to £43,000 a year, pro rata
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London
Working pattern:	Field-based
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	13 Oct 2026
Closing date:	7 Nov 2026

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Summary

Location: Home-based in the UK – London, Manchester or Leeds - with regular travel across the UK and internationally as required.

Salary: £38,000 - £43,000 per annum, depending on experience

Contract: Permanent, full-time

Annual leave: 25 days of annual leave per annum, plus 3 additional days over Christmas

Additional Benefits: Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

The role

We are looking for an experienced Learning Facilitator & Client Consultant to join the Common Purpose team.

This is a role for someone who loves people, ideas and learning, and who can work with a client to understand what they need, help shape the right learning experience, facilitate it brilliantly, and connect what happens in the programme to what needs to change afterwards.

Our programmes are experiential. Participants learn by encountering different people and perspectives, exploring real situations, having conversations that may challenge their assumptions, reflecting and reframing based on what they have experienced, and considering what it means for them and their organisation. You will be involved across that journey: from understanding the client and shaping the design, through to creating the conditions for powerful learning and helping participants and clients translate that learning into practice.

The facilitator is at the heart of making that learning happen. But this is not simply a delivery role.

You will need more than strong presentation or group-management skills. You will need to understand how people learn, how to design meaningful experiences, and how to turn those experiences into insight and action. You will need to be comfortable exploring a client's learning need, contributing to programme design, working with colleagues and clients to shape an experience, and identifying what will make the programme valuable beyond the room.

You will also need to know when to provide structure and when to get out of the way; when to challenge and when to listen; when a group needs energy and when it needs space to think. And you will need to stay curious about what happens after the programme - what participants do differently, what clients need to see change, and how our work can contribute to that.

You will work with an extraordinary range of people — from young professionals to senior leaders and C-suite executives — across different sectors, generations, cultures and contexts. You will need to connect quickly with all of them, while being equally confident in a conversation about a client's needs, a programme design, or the impact we are trying to achieve.

One day you might be helping a client make sense of a complex organisational challenge and shaping an experience around it. The next, you might be facilitating a conversation between people who have never met. Another day might involve an immersive experience outside the classroom, followed by a conversation that helps participants understand what they have seen, what it means for their own practice and what they will do differently as a result.

You will bring the personality to connect with people, the facilitation craft to hold a room, the learning and design expertise to create meaningful experiences, and the client consultancy skills to connect those experiences to real organisational needs and impact.

What you’ll be doing

Working with clients to understand their learning needs – asking the right questions, challenging assumptions where appropriate and translating organisational needs into meaningful learning experiences

Contributing to learning design and proposals, helping shape programme journeys, learning objectives, activities and approaches that respond to client needs

Designing and curating learning experiences – shaping programme journeys and identifying the ideas, perspectives, organisations, places and contributors that will make them distinctive and purposeful

Sourcing and working with contributors – building relationships with interesting people and organisations, briefing them effectively and drawing out their contribution before, during and after programmes

Contributing confidently to client pitches - explaining the thinking behind our approach and helping clients understand how experiential learning can address their needs

Facilitating Common Purpose programmes - both in person and online, taking ownership of the quality of the learning experience

Creating the conditions for experiential learning – building trust, encouraging participation and creating the right balance of safety, challenge and curiosity

Bringing learning to life - through questioning, discussion, activities, reflection and interaction with expert subject matter contributors

Reading and responding to the room - adapting activities, pace, questions and approach according to what the group needs

Preparing, reviewing and improving delivery – developing facilitation plans and materials, contributing to team briefings and debriefs, and sharing learning and practice with colleagues

What we offer

Purpose – the opportunity to work on programmes designed to create meaningful change for individuals, organisations and communities

Variety – exposure to different sectors, generations, cultures, organisations and perspectives through your work

Growth – continual development of your facilitation practice, alongside access to internal learning and development opportunities

Responsibility – meaningful ownership of programme delivery from the outset

Flexibility – a remote-first and flexible working environment

A global network – the opportunity to work with colleagues, participants and partners across different countries and contexts

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