Development Specialist

Description:

As the Learning & Development Specialist, you'll foster an environment where continuous learning, innovation, and growth thrive. You'll oversee the entire lifecycle of professional development initiatives for Administrative, Professional, Technical (APT), and Classified Staff, including planning, designing, coordination, facilitation, and evaluation. Collaborate with stakeholders to design and implement leadership programs at ACC aimed at developing both current and future leaders. In this pivotal new role, and with an organizational effectiveness mindset, you will strengthen the ACC talent bench by leveraging these key characteristics:

• Solutions & results oriented: achieving tangible outcomes and delivering effective solutions to address organizational learning needs.
• Creative & innovative: think creatively, leverage emerging technologies, customize learning solutions, and push the boundaries of traditional training approaches to drive impactful learning outcomes.
• Collaborative communicator: engaging with stakeholders, facilitating dialogue, and fostering a collaborative learning environment where all participants feel valued and empowered to grow.

ACC Equity Statement

We welcome and value the identities and experiences of our students, staff, faculty, and surrounding communities. We seek to engage and support historically marginalized groups whom higher education has traditionally failed to serve. We work to foster an equitable and inclusive learning and work environment that supports our students and employees through professional development, programming, reflection, and transformational change of ACC practices, procedures, services, and teaching. We collectively commit to holding ourselves accountable to our equity goals through assessing these efforts with multiple strategies that include voices of those impacted by this work.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in Human Resources, Business Management, Training, Organization Development, Adult Education, Instructional Design or related. Equivalent professional experience, year for year, may substitute for the degree.
• Two (2) years professional experience in organizational development, training, or adult education that includes designing, developing, and/or delivering training and development activities. A master’s degree in a training/learning and development area of study will substitute for the required experience.
• Solid facilitation and presentation skills; able to engage audiences on various topics.