The Training & Development Specialist will collaborate with subject matter experts, management, and business stakeholders to ensure employees within our family of companies receive appropriate, effective, job-related training to cultivate their skills and knowledge. The Training & Development Specialist will utilize effective and up-to-date training methodologies to design and create in-person and online training with instructional activities and materials that effectively incorporate adult learning principles.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with employees, or consultations with managers or subject matter experts
  • Conduct needs assessments of departments to identify training gaps and partner with supervisors and department experts to determine a training plan that will increase associate knowledge and drive employee engagement
  • Identify and procure or design effective training programs to address needs
  • Monitor and evaluate training programs to ensure they are current and effective
  • Develops storyboards and scripts for eLearning, video, and facilitator led trainings
  • Creates/Revises/Maintains eLearning and eLearning content using Articulate Storyline
  • Integrates emerging instructional methods and technologies into eLearning
  • Creates/captures multimedia and video products for use in training
  • Manipulate and edit digital imagery, video, and audio for online training
  • Develop graphics and design materials for classroom-based training and online training (eLearning and video) including instructor guides, student guides, and PowerPoint presentations
  • Apply creative design to the discipline of instructional design with an emphasis on multimedia
  • Develop instructional programs that leverage new technologies and multimedia
  • Apply interaction design and interactive learning principles to instructional solutions for adult learners
  • Creates and maintains course evaluations, and transcript reports for online and classroom training courses - compiles and communicates these in order to measure training effectiveness
  • Collaborates with other Training & Development team members on new, innovative ways to maximize training effectiveness and implement improvements to LMS functionality and user experience
  • Reviews of all training material for accuracy before approving and publishing to users, and maintain an accurate and up-to-date monthly training calendar and master course catalog

Skills/Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in multimedia design, graphic design, or instructional design, or related field
  • 3 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified
  • 1 to 2 years’ experience working with a LMS preferably with Cornerstone
  • Strong knowledge and application of adult learning theory and instructional design principles with a strong focus on eLearning/virtual design/graphic design and training methodologies, utilizing the latest interactive learning technologies
  • Ability to set up, record and edit video segments to support learning initiatives
  • Strong working knowledge of various authoring and eLearning development tools; i.e., Articulate Storyline, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, and/or Adobe Premiere
  • Ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision
  • Strong communication, presentation and public speaking skills 
  • An ability to translate technical terminology into readable content
  • Highly creative with the ability to think outside the box
  • Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously within established time constraints

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.

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