Training Specialist

Training Specialist

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Participates in mandated trainings including train-the-trainer opportunities with responsibility of coordinating facility-wide roll outs to include promotion, facilitation and tracking of participation.
• Provide advice and assistance in the resolution of problems and issues regarding career development programs and assists by gathering data to monitor the effectiveness of these programs; if insufficient controls are in place to evaluate career development programs, they may be involved in establishing criteria to assess these programs or projects.
• Provides assistance, consultation, guidance, and motivation to employees at VA Puget Sound regarding their personal development. Specific examples include: providing career resource information, performing interest assessments to help employees focus on specific aptitudes; identifying education career tracks; conducting career enhancing workshops, providing individualized assistance on resumes, promoting career development programs, and identifying community programs that provide educational or financial support to employees.
• Analyzes the resources needed, including additional faculty, material, and/or educational products; prepares related program budget information.
• Creates and develops learning goals and objectives, which are modified to suit the target audience; determines the best vehicle for delivery of curriculum, based on adult learning theory and evidence-based teaching practices.
• Analyzes new or proposed policies concerning education programs and career development programs to assure compliance with regulations and compatibility with agency mission and responsibilities; recommends new policy or changes in existing policies; provides guidance on the implementation of educational programs, and projects and activities.
• Coordinates the New Employee Orientation, orienting new employees to the facility's culture, leadership, policies, and mandated trainings; adapting the curricula to meet changing facility, VISN, and national policies, procedures, and needs.
• Independently establishes standards to calculate program effectiveness; conducts reviews after every class cycle and analyzes this data to ensure that programs are continually refined.
• Periodically performs a comprehensive evaluation of the overall curriculum for the healthcare system, identifying gaps and redundancies and taking action to improve integration, efficiency and quality of the curriculum.
• Plan, develop, direct, promote, and implement adult education curricula, programs, and projects to address educational needs of employees of the VA Puget Sound Health Care System.
• Analyze and integrate data from various resources from diverse facility, VISN, national VA, and non-VA sources (such as: facility/VISN educational needs assessments, All Employee Surveys to clarify learning goals and objectives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday- Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

Virtual: This is not a virtual or remote position.

Position Description/PD#: Training Specialist/ PD408410

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized