Are you passionate about Learning and Development? Have you been successful at leading learning and development projects? Are you known for your excellence in creating top notch learning solutions? If you said “yes” to all of our questions, you might like to apply to our Learning and Development Consultant positions.
- Conducting thorough needs and gap analyses in skills, audience, organization, etc.
- Developing instructionally sound, creative, and high quality-learning solutions with high impact results that leave a lasting effect
- Leveraging modern learning technologies, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools to design, develop, and implement behavior change solutions.
- Managing senior leader stakeholders and aligning on vision, outcomes, and expectations
- Managing projects: delivering on time, on budget, and with unparalleled quality standards.
- Implementing organizational changes that come with large-scale transformations at Fortune 100 companies.
- Working with clients to re-tool and re-skill their people, so they support the new way of doing business.
Being a Learning and Development Consultant requires:
- A college degree from a 4-year college
- Typically, 5-10 years external learning and development consulting / training or instructional design experience
- Advanced level experience in instructional design principles and best practices
- Experience designing and delivering blended learning solutions that combine instructor-led, digital, social, experiential, and performance support approaches
- Superior business/technical writing and editing skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills’
- Strong project management and data analytics skills
- Significant experience working with people at all levels of an organization, particularly senior leaders at large organizations
- Passion for collaborating and supporting internal and client team members
- Demonstrated ability to leverage data, learner insights, and business metrics to inform solution design and measure impact
- Comfort working alongside technical teams and advising clients on practical applications of AI, automation, analytics, and digital learning ecosystems
- Vision alignment and learning needs analysis
- Persona design
- Competency design
- Program and curriculum design
- Blended learning experience design and development
- ERP or similar technology implementation training experience (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Palantir)
- eLearning authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate
- Data analytics and dashboard development
- AI-enabled learning solution design and prompt engineering, rapid prototyping, low-code/no-code development, or AI-assisted solution development
- Big 4 Consulting experience
- Willingness to travel
It’s beneficial if you have professional certification (PMP, CLP, CPLP, CHRP) related to project management, change management, learning, or human resource management – as well as experience in the following:
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from a 4-year college
- 5-10 years external learning and development consulting, training, or instructional design experience
- Advanced-level experience in instructional design principles and best practices
- Experience designing and delivering blended learning solutions (instructor-led, digital, social, experiential, performance support)
- Superior business and technical writing and editing skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills
- Strong project management skills
- Strong data analytics skills and ability to measure learning impact
- Significant experience working with people at all organizational levels, including senior leaders
- Ability to leverage data, learner insights, and business metrics to inform design and measure impact
- Comfort working alongside technical teams and advising on AI, automation, analytics, and digital learning ecosystems
- Professional certifications (PMP, CLP, CPLP, CHRP)
- Vision alignment, learning needs analysis, persona and competency design, program and curriculum design experience
- ERP or similar technology implementation training experience (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Palantir)
- Experience with eLearning authoring tools (Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate)
- Experience with data analytics and dashboard development
- Experience designing AI-enabled learning solutions, prompt engineering, rapid prototyping, low-code/no-code development, or AI-assisted solution development
- Big 4 consulting experience
- Willingness to travel
What We Do
Emerson Human Capital Consulting helps our clients get the most out of a powerful asset – their people. We help organizations capture the benefit of their change initiatives. We don’t care what you’re launching – a new technology, product, service, market strategy, operating model – we’ll help you achieve the intended benefit sooner. Why? Because we get your people on board fast, and ready to work. How? We create change strategy. We help people internalize the new way of doing business, so they behave differently and successfully. We focus their attention and give them tools and information, so they know what to do, when and how. Then we build the means to sustain this new way of working. We do all these things at the organizational and individual level.
