Learning & Leadership Development Director
About The Position
The Learning & Leadership Development Director leads leadership development for the North Carolina Department of Transportation and directs the department’s Learning & Leadership Development function. The Director owns the NCDOT Pathways Leadership Development Program across five leadership levels, including its strategy, curriculum currency, facilitation, recurring cohort cycle, and leadership assessment, including the Assessment Center. The role ensures leaders across the department develop against the seven NCDOT leadership competencies, facilitates Pathways sessions and senior-leader forums, and advises executive and division leadership on leadership development and department-wide adoption of Pathways. The Director directly supervises four positions: two Program Analyst II – Pathways positions, the Pathways program administrator, and the Learning & Development Manager, who supervises the Learning Operations unit. Through subordinate supervision, the position provides leadership for a function of approximately nine employees. The role also directs Learning Operations, including the learning management system, enterprise training calendar, compliance and technical training coordination, reporting, and vendor administration. The Director establishes service and utilization standards, aligns the enterprise learning catalog with the Pathways curriculum and statewide offerings from the Office of State Human Resources, and establishes measures to assess the function’s reach, quality, and impact. This is a supervisory, primarily on-site position based in Wake County, with statewide travel for session delivery. Telework of one day per week is available after the first three months of employment, subject to management discretion.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an appropriately accredited institution and three years of program experience in the area of assignment, including two years of managerial experience in the public or private sectors involving significant decision-making authority in planning, organizing, and directing operations in the assigned program area; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Progressively responsible supervisory experience leading professional staff, including setting performance expectations and managing performance.
- Experience leading or substantially evolving a multi-level leadership development program in a large organization, including curriculum design or refresh.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating and presenting to executive and senior-leader audiences.
- Experience driving adoption of an enterprise program across organizational lines without direct authority, including program, project, and change management.
- Experience establishing program measures and using data to improve learning outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- Public-sector or state-government supervisory experience.
- Experience with leadership assessment, such as an assessment center or 360° assessment, and development planning.
Responsibilities
- Lead leadership development for the North Carolina Department of Transportation and direct the Learning & Leadership Development function.
- Own the NCDOT Pathways Leadership Development Program across five leadership levels, including program strategy, curriculum currency, facilitation, the cohort cycle, and leadership assessment.
- Ensure leaders across the department develop against the seven NCDOT leadership competencies.
- Facilitate Pathways sessions, including senior-leader forums.
- Serve as the department’s senior advisor on leadership development and partner with executive and division leadership to embed Pathways department-wide.
- Directly supervise two Program Analyst II – Pathways positions, the Pathways program administrator, and the Learning & Development Manager.
- Provide leadership for a function of approximately nine employees through subordinate supervision.
- Direct Learning Operations, including the learning management system, enterprise training calendar, compliance and technical training coordination, reporting, and vendor administration.
- Establish service and utilization standards for Learning Operations.
- Rationalize the enterprise learning catalog against the Pathways curriculum and statewide offerings from the Office of State Human Resources.
- Establish measures to assess the function’s reach, quality, and impact.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
