Senior Learning and Development Specialist - Leadership Development

This job posting is anticipated to remain open for 30 days, from 13-Feb-2026. The posting may close early due to the volume of applicants.

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

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Team Overview:

The Home Office Leadership Development team in Human Capital is responsible for developing, executing, and measuring the impact of the learning and development strategy for approximately 1500 home office leaders, team leader through director. As a member of the team, you'll have the opportunity to shape the strategy, design innovative and impactful learning experiences, tailored to the unique needs of your audience, deliver first-class learning experiences, and measure the impact they have on your learners.

The Senior Learning and Development Specialist is responsible for providing strategic consultation to key business partners in service of supporting and enhancing a leadership development ecosystem that demonstrably impacts business results and supports the ongoing development and engagement of home office leaders. This role is further responsible for designing, developing, curating, deploying, managing, and measuring innovative, best-in-class learning experiences and holistic solutions that align to leader "moments that matter," and support division and firm outcomes.

What You'll Do:

* Identify current and emerging learning and performance needs through ongoing consultation with key business partners within Human Capital.

* Design, develop and implement learning and development solutions through strategic partnerships with key stakeholders across the firm, positively influencing key performance indicators.

* Continuously develop and utilize expert knowledge to ensure recommended and designed learning solutions align with business needs, learner needs and best in class leadership development principles and theory.

* Partner with vendors to align solutions to Edward Jones leader needs, colleague experience and business outcomes.

* Apply broad business perspective and learning expertise to uncover, prioritize and address leader learning needs.

* Partner with data and analytics team to identify and implement measurement strategy to determine efficacy of learning solutions on performance and business outcomes. Provide regular reports of learning, performance and business impact of learning solutions.

* Demonstrate expert level facilitation skills in asynchronous, virtual and in-person classroom experiences.

* Design learner-centric development experiences that align to user/customer experience (UX/CX) best practices.

* Key business partners include but are not limited to division leaders, HC business partners, and business unit leaders and leaders/associates in the Talent organization, including the Leadership Development leadership team.

What Experience You'll Need:

* Minimum of 7+ years of experience in a learning related role (i.e. leadership development, instructional training design, development, learning measurement, consulting, facilitation, vendor management)

* 5+ years of experience in influencing and consulting with key stakeholders to enable learning initiatives and projects affecting large audiences with positive outcomes. Ability to define strategy, implement…