Training & Development Specialist

The Senior Trainer Specialist trains and assesses the leadership training needs of managers/supervisors and professional development courses; consults, designs, develops, delivers presentations (both in classroom and virtually), and continuously revises appropriate learning and development training materials, activities, classes, webinars, and other learning resources. Provides ongoing collaboration, coaching, and training to managers/supervisors and other employees that support the agency mission. Your top goals will be to create, schedule, track, and facilitate classroom and virtual learning.

Be ready to innovate, to leverage and exhaust existing solutions, and to creatively engage an extended network of contributors and experts. Success in this role means you have delivered and contributed to building training programs.

Additional functions of the role may include developing and designing curriculum, guides, and workbooks. Responsible for tracking course participation metrics, promoting course participation while ensuring consistency, clarity of content, grammar and sentence structure, and high-quality training. This position also works various projects ensuring timely completions as well as monitoring and responding to questions pertaining to course registration in the LMS.

• Delivers and assesses leadership training and development opportunities to provide new and emerging leaders with the opportunity to define and explore the essential elements of leadership.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders to design leadership program course content and curriculum.
• Provides training and coaching for managers and other employees on an individual, departmental, or site basis.
• Presents on topics related to distance learning, technology and course design at state, regional, or national meetings (as needed).
• Conducts necessary research to develop and deliver both leadership and professional development courses across the agency.
• Focuses on adult learning methodologies, presentation techniques, and course pacing.
• Works to identify areas of improvement where stronger training is needed within the agency.
• Consults, designs, develops, and delivers presentations both in classroom and virtual learning.
• Applies project management, communication, and problem-solving skills in the design of all training projects to meet aggressive deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Develops and designs cohesive real-world scenario-based curriculum handouts, guides, workbooks, and Power Points for both leadership and professional development courses.
• Designs production of learning objects in a variety of formats including print, graphics, audio, and video to support online coursework and programs.
• Utilizes instructional design protocol (ADDIE, Kirkpatrick Model of Evaluation, etc.).
• Edits instructional and supporting materials for content, grammar, clarity, consistency, quality, and accuracy of content.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of leadership development and professional development topics for use in learning curriculum.
• Maintains tracking database/spreadsheet,files, and records for course development launch and updates.
• Coordinates and maintains training, rosters, attendance, courses schedules and descriptions, etc. in the Learning Management Systems.
• Implement training plans with assessments for employee development.
• Compiles and analyze evaluation data, registrations, and other metrics to determine participation rates, effectiveness of training, satisfaction measurements, and return on investment (ROI).
• Creates room reservations, agendas/materials, meals, and supplies for leadership development programs and professional development…