Leadership Development Senior Specialist

Gulfstream•Savannah, GA

About The Position

The Leadership Development Senior Specialist role in GAC Savannah owns and advances leadership development experiences, including the established Leadership Essentials program. The role helps shape how leaders enter, understand, and grow within the organization by building a connected portfolio of experiences that strengthens leadership capability and organizational culture over time. The position delivers high-impact People Experience programs and initiatives that advance enterprise people and business strategies. As a senior individual contributor, it translates strategic priorities into scalable programs and experiences, develops recommendations, builds executive alignment, and leads implementation, measurement, continuous improvement, and long-term sustainment. The role advises leaders at all levels, including senior executives, and partners across the People Team to strengthen leadership capability, culture, employee engagement, retention, and organizational effectiveness. This position is based in GAC Savannah, is full-time, and has a first shift schedule. Travel is up to 25%.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree, or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the job's essential functions.
Five years of progressively responsible related human resources experience.
Knowledge of collaboration platforms, presentation tools, analytics, and program management solutions used to design, deliver, measure, and sustain programs.
Exceptional consulting, stakeholder management, influencing, executive presentation, and organizational skills.
Strong program design, facilitation, communication, strategic thinking, change leadership, and problem-solving capabilities.
Ability to operate as a senior individual contributor and advise leaders at all levels, including senior executives.
Ability to translate strategies, data, insights, and business needs into practical, scalable solutions.
Strong portfolio and program management, governance, and prioritization skills.
Ability to create compelling recommendations and presentations, build executive support, and lead enterprise-wide rollout and adoption.
Ability to lead complex initiatives through ambiguity while partnering effectively with implementation and change management teams.
Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Responsibilities

Implement, execute, measure, and continuously improve assigned People Experience programs and initiatives in alignment with enterprise people and business priorities.
Lead end-to-end program delivery, including design, content planning, participant experience, deployment, communications, and sustainment.
Develop program recommendations, presentations, and business cases; build stakeholder alignment and obtain executive sponsorship, including CHRO approval as appropriate.
Translate strategic priorities into scalable programs, experiences, tools, and interventions that strengthen leadership capability, culture, engagement, retention, and organizational effectiveness.
Advise leaders at all levels, including senior executives, and provide insights and recommendations to support decision-making.
Collaborate with the People Team, business leaders, and other stakeholders to design and implement People Experience solutions.
Define program objectives, success measures, governance, and stakeholder accountability.
Evaluate outcomes using participation data, employee feedback, organizational data, and workforce insights; identify opportunities and improve program adoption, impact, scalability, and sustainability.
Coordinate required resources and partner with People Programs and other teams on project management, change management, communications, and deployment support as appropriate.
Partner with instructional designers and subject-matter experts to develop, refine, and maintain practical, relevant, scalable program content and learning experiences.
Design, facilitate, or enable leadership experiences, focus groups, roundtables, and other interventions.
Apply external research, emerging trends, and leading practices to improve programs and initiatives.
Lead or support additional initiatives, pilots, and projects that advance People Experience priorities.
Perform other duties as assigned.