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$47.50 - $71.25At Advocate Health, we’re committed to helping people live well by delivering exceptional care with compassion, innovation, and expertise. We’re seeking an experienced People Relations & Enablement Training & Development Leader to design and deliver enterprise learning strategies that help leaders, teammates, physicians, faculty, PCBPs, and People Relations & Enablement teams apply practices effectively, consistently, and confidently.
As a key member of the People Relations & Enablement team, you’ll play a critical role in strengthening performance, culture, accountability, and consistency across the enterprise through thoughtful, scalable, and practice-based learning experiences.
This opportunity offers the chance to build and lead an enterprise-wide training strategy aligned to the People Relations & Enablement operating model. In this role, you will translate policies, procedures, investigative standards, and People Relations practices into clear, accessible, and practical learning experiences that support confident decision-making and consistent application across the organization.
You’ll partner closely with People Relations, Policy Lifecycle & Alignment, Investigative Protocols & Compliance, Intake teams, PCBPs, legal, compliance, risk partners, and operational leaders to ensure training is relevant, aligned, and impactful.
What You’ll Do- Design a cohesive, enterprise-wide training strategy aligned to the People Relations & Enablement operating model.
- Prioritize training initiatives based on risk, impact, and organizational needs.
- Ensure alignment with governance standards, investigative protocols, and policy intent.
- Establish a multiyear roadmap that evolves with the organization.
- Convert policies, procedures, and investigative standards into clear, practice-based learning experiences.
- Ensure training emphasizes application, judgment, and real-world decision-making.
- Reduce ambiguity by reinforcing expectations, roles, and escalation pathways.
- Partner with Policy Lifecycle & Alignment to ensure fidelity to policy intent.
- Design targeted training to strengthen leader confidence and capability in addressing people-related issues.
- Equip leaders with tools to identify concerns early and respond appropriately.
- Reinforce consistent, fair, and respectful management practices.
- Support leaders in navigating complex, sensitive, or high-risk situations.
- Develop a mix of delivery methods, including digital, live, and blended learning, to support enterprise scale.
- Ensure training is accessible, inclusive, and tailored to different leader and teammate audiences.
- Leverage technology platforms to support consistent delivery and tracking.
- Balance standardization with flexibility for role-specific needs.
- Collaborate with Investigative Protocols & Compliance, Policy Lifecycle & Alignment, and Intake teams.
- Incorporate legal, compliance, and risk perspectives where appropriate.
- Engage PCBPs and operational leaders to ensure training relevance.
- Align training efforts with broader organizational learning initiatives.
- Establish metrics to assess training participation, comprehension, and application.
- Gather feedback from leaders and teammates to improve content and delivery.
- Monitor trends to identify gaps in understanding or capability.
- Use insights to continuously refine and strengthen training offerings.
- Develop reinforcement tools such as job aids, playbooks, and reference guides.
- Support ongoing learning through refreshers and targeted interventions.
- Enable People Relations teams to coach leaders using consistent frameworks.
- Promote a culture of learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Identify opportunities to modernize training content and delivery.
- Leverage insights, data, and emerging best practices to evolve learning approaches.
- Support prevention-focused strategies by strengthening early intervention skills.
- Contribute to enterprise efforts to improve consistency, trust, and culture.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience.
- Typically requires 5 years of progressive leadership or training and development experience.
- Experience across People Relations, Workforce Analytics, HR Business Partner, organizational development, or strategic advisory work.
- Ability to navigate complexity with agility and adaptability.
- Strong judgment, strategic thinking, and ability to scale impact.
- Ability to develop practical solutions that support consistency and enterprise alignment.
- Strong communication, influence, and relationship-building skills.
- Resilience and ability to manage stakeholders across a complex environment.
- Understanding of the external landscape and emerging trends that may influence People Relations, training, and workforce practices.
- Ability to translate complex policies, procedures, and standards into clear learning experiences.
- Strong capability in developing tools, resources, and learning solutions that support leader confidence and teammate experience.
- Master’s degree.
- Experience supporting People Relations, employee relations, compliance, investigations, workforce analytics, organizational development, or strategic advisory functions.
- Experience designing enterprise-wide learning strategies in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience developing blended learning solutions, job aids, playbooks, and scalable training resources.
- Experience partnering with legal, compliance, risk, HR, and operational leaders.
Our Commitment to You:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
Compensation
Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program
Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Education, or related field
- Minimum of five years of employee relations experience
- Deep knowledge of employee relations practices, workplace investigations, performance management, and policy interpretation
- Strong consultation and relationship-building skills
- Ability to influence and coach leaders through complex and sensitive situations
- Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities
- Strong communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to balance employee advocacy with business needs and risk mitigation
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trust with stakeholders at all levels
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Experience supporting large, complex, multi-site organizations
- Experience coaching leaders through challenging employee relations and performance management situations
- Knowledge of employment law, regulatory requirements, and HR compliance practices
- Experience collaborating with Legal, HR Business Partners, and organizational leaders on complex workplace matters
- Demonstrated success leading process improvement initiatives and developing team capabilities
What We Do
Advocate Aurora Health is the 11th largest not-for-profit, integrated health system in the United States. As a leading employer in the Midwest, Advocate Aurora Health employs more than 75,000 individuals including more than 22,000 nurses. Advocate Aurora is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, and is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology and pediatrics. The organization contributed nearly $2.2 billion in charitable care and services to its communities in 2019.
