Title: Learning and Development Manager
Reporting to: Senior Manager, Talent Development & Performance Management
Location: Nairobi
About Food4Education
Food4Education (F4E) is a Kenyan nonprofit that is African and women-led, revolutionizing school feeding programs across Africa by designing a blueprint, operating it, and then supporting replication. Our vision is a world where no child has to learn on an empty stomach.
By creating an innovative, scalable, and sustainable model, we’re ensuring that children and youth have not only access to nutritious meals but also the opportunity to thrive in quality education. Over the past decade, F4E has expanded its reach exponentially, serving more than 120 million meals and growing from just 25 children fed daily in 2012 to a staggering 540,000 children receiving meals every single day in 2025. With our presence now spanning 12 counties—Embu, Kajiado, Kakamega, Kiambu, Kisumu, Machakos, Mombasa, Murang’a, Nairobi, Nakuru, Nyeri, and Uasin Gishu—we’re delivering daily meals to children in over 1,400 public primary schools and ECD centers.
About the Role
The Learning and Development Manager is a strategic leadership role that focuses on driving the organization’s learning culture by designing, implementing, and evaluating training and development programs that enhance employee skills, performance, and career growth. This role aligns talent development initiatives with business objectives to build organizational capability, improve employee engagement, and support succession planning.
Responsibilities
Learning Strategy & Planning
- Building workforce capability, fostering employee growth, and ensuring organizational competitiveness through effective learning strategies
- Implement learning and development initiatives: Plan, coordinate, and deliver L&D initiatives which may include training sessions, workshops, and offsites to teammates at various levels and departments.
- Design and coordinate offerings such as leadership coaching, technical skill-building, and other role-based development experiences
- Manage and Operationalize Competency Frameworks - Maintain and evolve our competency frameworks to make sure they are clear and relevant
- Integrate competencies into learning journeys, performance management, and professional development initiatives.
Training Design & Delivery
- Develop learning materials and resources: Create and update training materials, including presentations, handouts, online modules, and multimedia content, ensuring they are up-to-date, relevant, and engaging. A full understanding of the various business units and their specific training requirements is required.
- Design, implement, and manage learning programs (classroom, virtual, e-learning, blended).
- Partner with subject matter experts to create content that is relevant, engaging, and impactful.
- Manage the roadmap for developing new curriculum content, including planning, drafting, testing, and refining as needed
- Deliver and facilitate trainings, pilot new programs and iterate based on feedback and data
- Adapt existing content into clear, practical learning programs tailored to different roles, professional phases, and teams
- Choose and manage the right learning platform to deliver content effectively at scale
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends: Continuously research and stay informed about the latest learning and development trends, changes in learning theory, methodologies, and technologies to ensure training programs are innovative and effective.
- Make recommendations to the business on keeping abreast of industry changes and trends.
- Utilize technology for learning: Leverage learning management systems (LMS) and other e-learning platforms to deliver online training modules and track employee progress and completion.
- Organize, update, and maintain a centralized, accessible library of learning materials, templates, and resources.
Leadership Development Programs
- Identify current and future leadership gaps through skills assessments, and organizational strategy reviews.
- Program Design for Leadership development programs tiered to match career stages: Emerging Leaders / First-time Managers, Mid-level Leaders, and Senior Leaders / Executives.
- Management Trainee Programs - develop MT Programs designed to attract, train, and prepare young professionals for future managerial or leadership roles within the organization.
Evaluating Training Programs Effectiveness
- Partners with operational leaders to assess if employees demonstrate effective technical and leadership skills.
- Reporting: Generate reports and metrics to track and measure the effectiveness of learning and development initiatives. Make improvements based on the data outcomes to help teammates make the most of learning opportunities.
- Measures transfer of learning from training courses to the operation.
- Evaluate learning and development effectiveness: Manage the L&D data analysis and determine the effectiveness of L&D initiatives.
- Conduct thorough assessments and evaluations of L&D programs, collecting feedback from participants and stakeholders to measure the impact and effectiveness of the initiatives. Make improvements based on the data outcomes.
Managing Training Budgets
- Participates in the development of the Training budget as required.
- Manages budget in alignment with Human Resources and property financial goals.
- Manages department controllable expenses to achieve or exceed budgeted goals.
- Budget Coordination: Oversee the learning and development budget, ensuring resources are allocated effectively and efficiently.
Does this sound like you?
- Degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business or any other related field
- 5–7 years of experience in L&D, or organizational development, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Instructional Design: Proven ability to create engaging, effective learning programs grounded in adult learning principles.
- Project Management: Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple learning initiatives, collaborators, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Proven track record in designing and implementing successful learning and leadership development programs.
- Experience managing Learning Management Systems (LMS) and e-learning solutions.
- Strong understanding of adult learning principles, instructional design, and training evaluation models
- Proactive, self-motivated, and capable of working independently while ensuring follow-through on all initiatives
- Strategic thinker with keen attention to detail and a strong ability to execute strategy.
- Solutions-oriented with a positive, 'can-do' attitude, able to prioritize tasks, and navigate shifting demands effectively
- Passionate commitment to F4E’s vision and values
- Collaborative mindset, a can-do attitude and the ability to work across departments effectively
- Strong analytical, written, and leadership skills with a focus on meeting deadlines.
We are an equal-opportunity employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
Career Growth and Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You will have weekly check-ins with your manager, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You will have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding, long-term career.
Deadline; 17th October 2025
We aim to contact all our applicants, but due to the high volume of applications only short-listed candidates are contacted. If you do not hear from us within two weeks your application might not be successful on this occasion. This does not mean you will not be considered for future roles so please keep an eye on our job board and apply for positions that match your skills and experience.