This is an interim backfill role to cover for an employee who will be out on parental leave. The duration of the assignment is targeted for 18 months starting in June 2019. However, the start and end dates may change.
Manages the activities involved in the needs assessment, design, development, and delivery of talent and learning programs for managers, leaders and employees. Joins in partnership with other HR professionals to assess and implement development programs, processes and training initiatives to support foundation strategies. This position reports to the Deputy Director, Organization & Talent Development, and works collaboratively with colleagues within People & Place and across the foundation.
Areas of Responsibility:
Specific bodies of work with oversight responsibility to this role include:
- Capacity building learning programs (RISE, professional coaching)
- Competency building learning programs (Management Essentials, 360 Feedback, manager development tools and resources)
- Talent programs associated with First year experience, including First Day Orientation and Starting Gates
- On-the-job talent programs, including Alumni, Fellows and Interns
Core Responsibilities
- Manages designers/facilitators in the development and delivery of learning programs for managers, leaders and individual contributors.
- Manages designers/facilitators of the first year experience, including the development and delivery of First Day Orientation and Starting Gates.
- Member of a cross-functional team to deliver prioritized outcomes for the Manager Effectiveness Integrated Solution
- Oversees designers/facilitators of on-the-job talent programs, including Alumni, Fellows and Interns.
- Develops and approves content, methods and materials for programs and provides oversight of technology platforms (Workday Learning Management System, SharePoint) required to access talent and learning content.
- Measures and assesses talent and learning programs, evaluates for quality, impact, scalability and sustainability, and continually seek improvement opportunities while establishing methods for sustained adoption.
- Manages a team of pooled program designers and facilitators/implementers. While resource allocation of these roles will be a shared responsibility of the Development leadership team, active coaching, development and performance management is a key expectation of this role.
Educational Background:
Advanced degree with 7+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources or Organizational Psychology; or, Master’s degree or PhD in Business, Human Resources, or Organizational Psychology preferred.
Skills/Experience:
- Collaboration - Works with others openly and transparently to create an environment where diverse view-points are valued, and information is shared with others for the purposes of achieving a shared client experience goal
- Implementation Excellence - Excel at delivering and continuously improving our global solutions in a seamless, consistent way that results in clients understanding changes and more effectively driving foundation impact
- Outcome Driven - Using data to drive decision making, determine the work to be done, assess changes, adapt plans, measure progress, and follow-through on getting the work done in service of the desired client experience outcome(s)
- Functional Expertise - Use functional skills and knowledge to provide solutions to our clients in a consultative manner
- Learning Agility - Ability, curiosity, and willingness to learn from experiences and failures to adapt and adopt new ways of being and thinking to further the impact of the foundation (e.g., take risks, challenge status quo, be open)
- Critical Thinking - The process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information from multiple sources and perspectives to reach an answer or conclusion
- Systems Thinking - Understands the formal and informal intersections and interdependencies to be able to frame the problem, evaluate issues, see downstream affects, and identify future implications across the end-to-end system to help prioritize solutions
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Apr 5 2019
Active Until:
May 5 2019
Hiring Organization:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry:
Nonprofit