Performance & Development Lead (Fractional)

The role

This role focuses on performance development by coaching Partners and Functional Leaders to develop their people. You will build skills, frameworks, and programmes to help employees grow through feedback, learning, and progression frameworks.

What you will do

• Build skills for giving and receiving feedback and structured check-in conversations
• Design and curate professional and technical skills development programmes
• Coach Partners and Functional Leaders on building evidence for promotion and reward decisions
• Own onboarding and the probation experience for new joiners
• Build firm-wide understanding of modern performance tools
• Define skills and progression frameworks for client-facing and enablement tracks
• Use data to track if work is changing behaviour and report to the CPO and Management Team

Required qualifications

• Senior experience in people development, performance coaching or L&D
• Strong instructional designer and facilitator
• Able to build and personally deliver programmes
• Pragmatic prioritiser comfortable scoping work into 3 focused days a week
• Confident coaching senior Partners and Directors

Nice to have

• Senior experience in people development, performance coaching or L&D ideally somewhere with a strong, explicit growth philosophy rather than a generic annual-review cycle

About the company

Unity Advisory is a modern advisory business built for today's CFO, with connected solutions across finance, deals and tax. Seasoned experts lead every engagement in an operating model powered by AI and free from audit conflict.