Senior Training Specialist – Human Resource Consultant

Position: Senior Training Specialist – Human Resource Consultant 4 – Permanent – *00466-25

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Title: Senior Training Specialist
Classification: Human Resource Consultant 4
Job Status: Full-Time - Permanent
WDFW Program: Directors Office – Human Resources Division
Duty Station: Olympia, Washington – Thurston County
Hybrid/Telework: While this position offers a hybrid work arrangement, the successful candidate must be available to report to the Olympia, WA headquarters as needed.

Join the agency’s training team to enhance the knowledge, skills, and leadership of employees, volunteers, and student interns by delivering professional training in soft skills, safety, and technical areas.

This role focuses on developing and implementing high-quality, compliant training programs that promote an efficient and safe workforce while reducing risk and liability.

Serve as a subject matter expert in learning and development by providing consultation, evaluating training outcomes, and contributing to agency performance through data collection, analysis, and reporting.

What to Expect

Among the varied range of responsibilities held within this role, the Senior Training Specialist will:

Provide high quality in-person and online training in a variety of designated subjects to agency employees:

• Deliver required, planned, and just-in-time training on a variety of designated subjects including human resources management, leadership, communications, conflict resolution, situation awareness, diversity, safety, and team building.
  • Training is provided in both in-person and online settings, including programs such as New Employee Orientation and Supervisor Academy.
• Maintain agency designated instructor certifications to organize and provide training and/or consultation.
• Research, identify, maintain awareness, and incorporate best practice training for identified subjects.
• Deploy, collect, evaluate, and integrate relevant feedback from course evaluations for continuous improvement of class effectiveness, instructor delivery, and to maintain fidelity to training models.
• Provide employees, supervisors, programs, and management individualized and group training consultation to identify training needs and formulate training plans.

Develop and manage all training logistics, operations, and supports to plan, establish, coordinate, deliver, report, and document high quality professional training:

• As a member of the training team, develop and manage training operations.
  • Develop formal written training plans and implement them upon approval.
  • Develop employee learning plans with training requirements specific to duties, including a refresher schedule. Ensure learning plans are embedded in the Human Resource system and the Learning Center.
  • Compile reports for Supervisors and Executive Leadership to define and measure the status of training activities, deliverables, compliance, and outcomes.
• Develop and manage training logistics.
  • Schedule agency trainings, confirm location, time, room, and trainers.
  • Maintain student roster, ensuring enrollment and course completion.
  • Manage procurement and billing of training materials.
  • Schedule and coordinate travel and lodging for agency and contracted trainers.

Develop curriculum and training materials and supports for in-person and online training:

• Develop, revise and edit training curriculum for in-person and online classes.
• Use Articulate Storyline or other Department authorized platforms to develop, revise, and deploy online courses.
• Develop, disseminate and maintain employee training communications.

Working Conditions:

Work setting, including hazards: The positions assigned duty station is in WDFW Headquarters in the Natural Resource Building. Telework options may be available, subject to supervisor approval. The position will require statewide travel to facilitate training. Work is performed almost exclusively indoors in an office environment. Office hazards may include working under fluorescent light, long periods of entering data/looking at a computer monitor and carrying training materials and equipment frequently (approximately 25 lbs.).

Schedule: Typically, Monday – Friday, 8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M., 40 hours per week.…