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 #J-18808-Ljbffr