I am a secondary school teacher applying for your learning and development specialist role, and I want to be direct about the change: I have not worked in corporate L&D, but I have spent six years doing the part of it that is hardest to hire for, which is designing instruction that measurably changes what people can do, for audiences that did not choose to be there.
I rebuilt our department's Year 10 curriculum around formative assessment and took the pass rate from 61% to 84% across three cohorts, which required getting nine other teachers to change how they taught. I trained those colleagues, wrote the materials they used, and ran the observation cycle that kept it consistent. I also built and delivered a school-wide training programme on assessment for 60 staff, evaluated it, and rewrote the weaker half after the first round of feedback. That is needs analysis, instructional design, facilitation and evaluation: the same loop, with a different audience and lower stakes than a compliance deadline.
What I do not have is exposure to an LMS at enterprise scale or to stakeholder management above department level, and I would rather say so than discover it in week three. I learn systems quickly and I have references who will speak to that. If there is a version of this role where curriculum quality is the constraint, I think I would be unusually good at it.
Thank you for considering an unconventional application, Maria Feldt