Team Lead, Learning and Development

# Team Lead, Learning and Development Hot Job## Career Opportunity Looking for a mission-driven, collaborative workplace where you can make an impact? Join our team as a Team Lead, Learning and Development. The Team Lead, Learning and Development supports CARF’s mission, vision, values, goals, and objectives by expertise and leadership for strategic learning and development initiatives that contribute to organizational effectiveness and business development, and are in compliance with company policies and procedures, applicable laws, and contractual obligations.

In addition to leading a team of learning and development professionals/technologists, this position performs full-cycle instructional design and eLearning development work, including analyzing learning needs, collaborating with SMEs on content, designing and developing start-to-finish learning solutions, supporting implementation, and evaluating effectiveness.
** Final date to receive applications:
September 1, 2026 or until filled
**** Essential Duties and Responsibilities
** The following duties and responsibilities are the essential functions of this job that an individual must be able to perform with or without a reasonable accommodation:

** Learning and development** - In collaboration with key stakeholders/subject matter experts, responsibilities include, but are not limited to providing expertise and oversight for:
* Utilizing best practice
** performance improvement
** techniques to address individual/organizational performance opportunities, including but are not limited to:  + Participating in the evaluation of requests for HRET support and presentation of initial recommendations for strategic alignment/preliminary approval.  + Assisting with performance gap analyses, varying in complexity, to determine root causes.  + Providing instructional design expertise in the recommendation of learning solutions (e.g., training, job aids) or other interventions (e.g., communication, process improvement) to committee for strategic project approval.  

+ Implementing solutions and/or interventions, guiding the change management process, and evaluating the results, as appropriate.
* Utilizing best practice
** instructional design
** methodologies to analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate corporate learning solutions, including but are not limited to:  + In partnership with project lead/sponsor, developing/maintaining instructional design project plans outlining, at minimum, executive summary; problem statement, business and alignment to CARF strategic plan; assumptions, risks, and/or constraints; targeted audience; proposed solutions and deliverables; project scope and timelines; team/key stakeholders and approval workflows;

and communication, implementation, measurement and evaluation plans.  + Developing/maintaining high-level and detailed design documents outlining educational program requirements, course goals and objectives, course content, and delivery methods.  + Applying agile instructional design methodologies to develop blended learning solutions to meet established educational objectives; develop/facilitate train-the-trainer curriculum/materials; and updating curriculum/materials as needed, based on system enhancements, operational changes, and/or regulatory/policy changes.  

+ Designing/developing/maintaining branded course and presentation templates and other educational resources to ensure consistency, accessibility, and alignment with adult learning principles and organizational brand requirements.  + Applying adult learning theories to create engaging learning activities and compelling course content that enhances knowledge transfer and retention.  + Developing/maintaining various levels of competency-based assessment tools to measure course efficacy against established educational objectives and utilizing feedback/results to improve course design and implementation practices.  

+ Aligning existing professional development/continuing education opportunities with position competencies to guide in prescriptive performance improvement and converting/repurposing existing instructor-led courses to an elearning format, as appropriate.
* Utilizing best practice
** training delivery and administration
** to enhance the learner/trainer experience, including but are not limited to:  + Collaborating across HRET in the:
- Development/maintenance of annual event calendars/timelines.
- Development/maintenance of training materials.
- Production/maintenance of event materials, e.g., agenda, slides, handouts.  + Collaborating with presenters and managing projects from a content perspective.  + Hosting/moderating in-person, virtual, asynchronous, and/or synchronous learning programs, e.g., surveyor training and assessment programs, surveyor conferences, customer webinars.  + Administering continuing education credit programs, e.g., evaluating non-CARF professional development requests, assigning/communicating CE point values.  + Performing post-training…