Sr. Specialist, Staff Talent Development
About The Position
The Human Resources (HR) team at NGS is dedicated to finding, growing, and retaining talent, and building the NGS community. They design and implement people and total reward strategies to enhance employee culture and experience. The HR department encompasses HR Business Partners, Total Rewards & Recognition, and Talent Management, and also leads the internship program. The Staff Talent Development Senior Specialist, reporting to the Senior Manager of Staff Talent Development, will collaborate to design compelling and tailored onboarding and learning and development programs. These programs and resources will support the opening of the Museum of Exploration (MoE) and help NGS staff build key leadership skills to address emerging workforce needs. This role involves curating existing online and instructor-led training content to create comprehensive learning and onboarding paths for staff. The Senior Specialist is expected to possess strong communication and organizational skills, an action-orientation, and a passion for creating innovative learning experiences.
Requirements
- 4+ years of work experience in learning and development/training and talent management
- Knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Creative thinking, responsive problem-solving, and attention to detail
Nice To Haves
- Understanding of onboarding development and processes
- Knowledge of museum best practices
Responsibilities
- Works with manager to design innovative and engaging onboarding and learning content for NGS staff, leaders, and teams
- Create training materials and slide decks, as well as supporting materials such as rubrics, manuals, training guides, assets and more
- Conduct research to support content development
- Coordinate efforts with HR Business Partners, internal communications, stakeholders, and contractors to ensure opportunities are widely accessible to all staff
- Provide support for virtual, in-person, and online training events, including co-facilitation
- Monitor and evaluate workshop evaluation data to inform strategy and decision making
- Gather and analyze data to evaluate and improve team and organizational effectiveness
- Support development of performance management frameworks, materials, training and communication including goal-setting, check-ins throughout the year and year-end performance reviews
Benefits
- competitive and comprehensive benefits package
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- engaging and comprehensive wellness program
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching contributions after 6 months of employment
- flexible paid time off benefits with up to 22 days of paid annual leave per calendar year (15 days for new hires in their first year, prorated based on the number of pay periods remaining in the year)
- 10 days of sick leave
- 12 paid holidays
- paid winter break between December 25 and 31
- paid parental leave
- adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- fertility benefits
- learning and development opportunities
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- pet adoption assistance and insurance
- pre-tax transportation benefits with a generous employer subsidy
- employer-paid life insurance and disability benefit
- variety of National Geographic discounts and perks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
