Senior Leadership Development Consultant

At EMC, we’re all about working together to make an impact. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, contribute, and gain experience that matters. We strive to be caring leaders, close partners, and responsive experts—always supporting each other to do our best work. Join us, and let’s improve lives together.

Location Requirement: Ideal candidate will be located in the Des Moines Metro.

Designs innovative leadership development solutions and programs that include a blended learning approach.  Collaborates with stakeholders and subject matter experts to create measurable objectives for learning solutions that emphasize and reflect adult learning principles and accelerated learning techniques.  Designs, develops, and infuses a two-fold coaching and leadership framework across EMC.  Develops and conducts training for people leaders and individual contributors on the tenants of effective coaching.  Creates performance-based large scale training solutions for all team members companywide, and complex and targeted trainings.

Essential Functions:

• Designs innovative leadership development solutions and programs that include a blended learning approach such as coaching, classroom training, action learning and e-learning using a variety of delivery modalities and technologies for internal stakeholders as well as occasional external audiences.

• Collaborates with stakeholders and subject matter experts to create measurable objectives for learning solutions that emphasize and reflect adult learning principles and accelerated learning techniques.

• Customizes the information to all levels and styles of learners to enhance learning outcomes. Creates and maintains project plans, communication plans, stakeholder and risk analysis and other project management deliverables.  

• Supports strategic initiatives across the talent pipeline which may include succession planning, talent learning journeys, and skill development. 

• Partners with the DE&I Office to help deliver strategic initiatives designed to strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion at EMC. 

• Liaises with HRBPs to ensure strategic alignment of leadership curriculum across enterprise. 

• Researches effective leadership development industry trends and supporting resources and makes recommendations to leader on what would benefit EMC.

• Develops, implements, or modifies existing trainings to incorporate new trends and research

• Designs, develops, and infuses a two-fold coaching and leadership framework across EMC. 

• Builds a coaching toolkit that will enable all team members with access to relevant and user-friendly coaching collateral. 

• Develops and conducts training for people leaders and individual contributorson the tenants of effective coaching

• Creates performance-based large scale training solutions for all team members companywide, and complex and targeted trainings.

• Works with business partners and key stakeholders to implement developed solutions.

• Develops and produces training modules, learning paths, instructor guides, job aids, and support materials for classroom, instructor-led, online and blended learning using a variety of instructional techniques (such as coaching, lectures, group discussion, team exercises, role playing, videos and multimedia). 

• Conducts a systematic evaluation of existing training programs to ensure they meet company needs.

• Proactively identifies human performance gaps and consults with business leaders, subject-matter experts, and other stakeholders to identify and define performance-based needs for learning interventions that are effective in meeting both learner and business needs.

• Designs learning programs for reinforcement and measurement.  Continuously measures the effectiveness and impact of learning solutions and implements enhancements accordingly to ensure desired outcomes are achieved.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience

• Ten years of experience in corporate learning, which includes needs assessment, design and delivery of training programs

• Certifications in skilled facilitation, instruction design and coaching preferred

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Excellent knowledge of adult learning theory, with the ability to apply that knowledge to impactful learning solutions

• Excellent analytical ability to measure impact of training programs, initiatives, and learning solutions

• Strong knowledge of training solutions targeted at leaders

• Strong knowledge of learning technologies that include computer-based learning, multimedia material, learning management system and rapid authoring tools

• Excellent knowledge of complex instructional design

• Excellent ability in applying learning technologies for the enhancement of facilitation, learning and assessments

• Ability to work in fast-paced and agile environment

• Ability to build trust with business leaders, stakeholders and team members

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent presentation, planning, organizational and interpersonal skills

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, learning management system, as well as authoring and virtual tools

• Occasional travel required; a valid driver’s license with an acceptable motor vehicle report per company standards will be required if driving

The hiring salary range for this position will vary based on geographic location, falling within either the $90,635.00 - $124,914.00 range or the $99,924.00 - $137,714.00 range. A hiring range represents a subset of the full salary range.  The actual salary will depend on several factors, including relevant education, skills, and experience of an applicant, geographic location, and business needs. 

Our employment practices are in accordance with the laws that prohibit discrimination due to race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, active military status, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

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