Your Role
As a Talent Development Specialist, you will support the coordination, execution, and follow-up of Talent Development programs and talent management processes across the region. Working closely with the Regional Talent Development Manager, HR Business Partners, office leaders, and HR Analytics, you will help ensure that development initiatives are well organized, aligned with business needs, and properly tracked.
This role will focus on program coordination, learning administration, participant communications, data tracking, and follow-up actions from key professional development, performance, engagement, and leadership development processes. The Talent Development Specialist will serve as a key operational partner to the Regional Talent Development Manager and a reliable support to HRBPs and leaders in moving development actions forward.
What You Will Do
- Coordinate Talent Development programs, including scheduling, logistics, communications, materials, attendance tracking, and post-program follow-up.
- Partner with leaders, Human Resources, facilitators, and vendors to support the successful execution of learning and development initiatives.
- Track program participation, completion, feedback, action items, and overall progress.
- Support Human Resources with follow-up actions resulting from professional development, performance, engagement, and leadership development processes.
- Administer LMS Learning, including creating and updating training, entering attendance, maintaining records, and ensuring learning data is accurate.
- Maintain training calendars, participant lists, trackers, dashboards, shared folders, templates, and program resources.
- Use existing dashboards and reports to monitor Talent Development activity, summarize insights, and identify follow-up needs.
- Work closely with HR Analytics to gather, validate, and interpret Talent Development data.
- Prepare program recaps, reports, presentations, and communication materials.
- Support administrative responsibilities related to vendors, invoices, registrations, documentation, and learning resources.
- Help improve the participant’s experience and strengthen consistency across Talent Development processes.
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Psychology, Organizational Development, Education, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Talent Development, Learning and Development, HR, People Operations, Training Coordination, or a related field.
- Strong organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple programs and deadlines.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with multiple stakeholders.
- Experience with LMS Learning or another learning management systems.
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Familiarity with dashboards and reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qualtrics is a plus.
- Ability to use existing data and dashboards to summarize insights.
- Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.
Life at Gensler
At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to “Well-being Week,” our offices reflect our people’s diverse interests.
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include subsidized health and life insurance, profit sharing, annual bonus, LinkedIn learning, holiday observance, additional PTO days every 5 years and employee assistance programs.
As part of the firm’s commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Organizational Development, Education, Business Administration, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in Talent Development, Learning and Development, HR, People Operations, or Training Coordination
- Experience with LMS or other learning management systems
- Strong organizational and coordination skills; ability to manage multiple programs and deadlines
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with multiple stakeholders
- Strong Excel skills
- Strong PowerPoint skills
- Experience tracking program participation, completion, feedback, action items, and using dashboards/reports
- Ability to gather, validate, interpret data and summarize insights from existing dashboards
- Experience preparing program recaps, reports, presentations, and communication materials
- Experience with vendor administrative tasks, invoices, registrations, and learning resources
- Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, or Qualtrics
- Bilingual English/Spanish
Gensler Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Gensler and has not been reviewed or approved by Gensler.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentive programs include twice‑yearly bonuses and profit sharing that are positioned as meaningful parts of total compensation. Employee ownership elements can reward longer tenure and contribute to overall earnings beyond base pay.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee stock ownership and stock appreciation programs provide wealth‑building avenues beyond salary. These equity mechanisms are highlighted as part of the standard package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage spans medical, dental, and vision alongside life and disability, EAP/mental‑health resources, and wellness programs. Benefits breadth is described as solid within the industry context.
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What We Do
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 53 locations and more than 6,000+ professionals networked across the Americas, Europe, Greater China, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. Founded in 1965, the firm works globally with more than 4,000 clients across more than 33 practice areas spanning the work, lifestyle, community, and health sectors. Everything we do is guided by our mission: To create a better world through the power of design. We believe the power of design can spark positive change and create a future that promotes equity, resilience, and wellbeing for everyone. Gensler was named one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2020, 2019, 2017 and 2016, and our award-winning culture has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2021. Our people-first philosophy is centered on the core ideas of diversity empowerment, impact, community, respect, and growth. You can learn more about our commitment to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace at https://www.gensler.com/careers#diversity.
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