Manager YD Learning Development

Join Our Team as Manager YD Learning Development

Boys & Girls Clubs of America is the nation's premier youth development organization. Our programs, training and services impact nearly 4 million children and teens every year. We are always looking for qualified professionals with a passion for improving young lives, as a member of our national staff. We have strong values, and offer great benefits to allow our employees to maintain work/life balance.

LOCATION:
This position is on-site, office-based in Atlanta, GA (hybrid model - 3 days remote / 2 days in office
- Tuesday & Wednesday)

Role Summary

This role leads strategies that strengthen staff development, organizational capacity, and continuous learning across the Boys & Girls Club Movement. The position will lead the National Trainers Initiative (NTI), a decentralized trainer certification program, and connect it to a broader quality improvement approach that helps Clubs build the conditions, routines, and leadership practices needed for a culture of learning. Working as a consultant and systems thinker, the role will help organizations assess needs, identify root causes, align people and processes, and build sustainable systems that enable staff to learn, apply high-quality youth development practices, and improve over time.

What You'll Do

• Lead the National Trainers Initiative (NTI): Lead the redesign, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of NTI, ensuring alignment with BGCA’s broader staff development and culture of learning strategies.
• Build and Support Trainer Capacity: Develop and implement strategies to recruit, engage, develop, support, and retain a high-quality network of trainers and staff development professionals across the Movement.
• Build Organizational Capacity for a Culture of Learning: Consult with Club leaders and cross-functional teams to assess organizational conditions, identify strengths and barriers, and build the leadership practices, routines, roles, and supports needed for continuous staff learning and consistent implementation of high-quality youth development practices.
• Apply Systems Thinking to Improvement: Examine how strategy, leadership, talent, learning, data, tools, and operating practices interact; facilitate root-cause analysis and process mapping; and co-design practical solutions that address underlying conditions rather than isolated symptoms.
• Design Learning Experiences & Improvement Supports: Design, facilitate, test, and curate learning experiences, coaching tools, diagnostic resources, and job-embedded supports that strengthen trainer effectiveness and help organizations translate learning into changes in everyday practice.
• Measure Impact & Lead Continuous Improvement: Develop practical measures of trainer effectiveness, organizational capacity, learning transfer, and implementation. Help teams use quantitative and qualitative data, feedback, and reflection to test assumptions, monitor progress, adapt supports, and sustain improvement over time.
• Provide Thought Leadership: Contribute expertise and thought leadership in adult learning, professional development, and staff capacity building to strengthen BGCA’s approach to professional learning across the Movement.

Additional Responsibilities

• Partner across Youth Development and other BGCA teams to align learning, quality improvement, consulting, and service-delivery strategies and reduce duplication for Clubs.
• Conduct site visits and virtual consultations; synthesize observations, data, and stakeholder input into clear findings, prioritized recommendations, and practical improvement plans.
• Capture and share lessons, promising practices, and recurring system barriers so insights from individual engagements strengthen…