VP, Learning (Virtual, Full Time)

Wealthcounsel • Jersey City, NJ

45d • Remote

About The Position

WealthCounsel is seeking a motivated and driven VP, Learning to join their team. This role provides strategic leadership over WealthCounsel’s Learning programs, ensuring the development and delivery of high quality, relevant substantive education to members and prospective members. The VP, Learning will support members in building and growing successful law practices by leveraging deep expertise in estate planning and law practice development. This position reports to the Chief Content Officer (CCO).

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school
• At least 10 years of industry-related experience
• A minimum of three years in an upper management role
• 5-10 years experience practicing estate planning
• Experience teaching programs related to WealthCounsel’s core products or law firm practice building strategies
• Demonstrated ability to effectively coordinate professional education events in-person and virtually
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to improve business processes and practices to reduce costs and increase efficiency
• Ability to identify and implement best practices and continual performance measurement
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to lead a team of non-centralized employees to meet deadlines and consistently deliver high-quality strategic plans and content
• Willingness to regularly teach, present, and write required

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a WealthCounsel member preferred

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership to the Learning team, including supervising and supporting team members, performance planning and evaluation, determining staffing needs, resolving interdepartmental conflicts, developing annual budgets, and determining training needs.
• Establishes the strategic direction of WealthCounsel's Learning programs in collaboration with the CCO and executes this strategy in continuous collaboration with company leadership and the Operations, Growth, Content, and Finance teams.
• Oversees all programs related to WealthCounsel members’ practice development with a focus on WealthCounsel growth and retention strategies to increase revenue.
• Contributes to WealthCounsel growth and retention initiatives by implementing innovative learning initiatives in coordination with the Growth and Membership Experience teams.
• Engages with members and prospects to assist in determining practice development and substantive legal education needs and priorities.
• Works closely with the Learning team and the Director of Learning Operations to build and deliver a comprehensive annual education plan and education calendar.
• Coordinates all programming related to education events, including but not limited to Symposium, the Advanced Estate Planning Summit, and the Academy of Special Needs Planners (ASNP) National Conference.
• Responsible for the vision and direction of the Quarterly magazine.
• Oversees the Learning team’s review of all substantive and practice building content submitted by contractors, speakers, instructors, and all other contributors, including marketing pieces from the Marketing and Legal Marketing team.
• Creates product concept proposals and business cases to support the development of new educational offerings, including applying best practices in lifelong learning, monetization of offerings, and innovative delivery of education through new and different media, program length and program focus.
• Actively engages in collecting competitive intelligence to ensure WealthCounsel’s educational programming remains cutting edge and the best value in the market.
• Actively engages with the Legal Content Team to develop and execute overarching strategy and plan to connect WealthCounsel’s software offerings with education.
• Teaches and writes on substantive topics, current developments, and practice building.
• Ensures compliance with industry best practices and company processes and procedures.
• Establishes and communicates strategic direction across all areas of responsibility; executes strategy in collaboration with the CCO and company leadership.
• Communicates department, program, and project performance and process to the CCO through periodic status reports and presentations.
• Develops, implements, and tracks key performance metrics, milestones, specifications, documentation and reporting requirements, and budgets to ensure educational offerings are supporting WealthCounsel growth and retention goals.
• Tracks and analyzes program, project, and process costs across all areas of responsibility.
• Promotes collaboration across departments.
• Maintains current knowledge of trends and technologies in legal education and law practice management.
• Performs other duties as required.
• Interviews, hires, and trains members of the Learning team.
• Provides constructive and timely performance feedback and evaluations to ensure top-level performance at all levels of the department.
• Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package (including base salary and performance based incentives)
• Medical/dental/vision plan
• Matching 401(k)
• Generous paid time off package that includes: Paid Time Off (PTO), Holidays (including 2 Floating Holidays), Volunteer Time, Blood Donor Leave, Short Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave and more!
• Matching donations for approved charitable organizations
• Home internet reimbursement
• Gym membership reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree