Talent Development Specialist

Important note: If selected for an interview, you will be requested to provide us with a 10-minute walk-through of one lesson within an online module you personally created. The demonstration should include an overview of the factors you considered as you built the module.

Position Overview:

Facilitates, hosts, and collaborates with on and off-campus subject matter experts, experienced facilitators, and constituents to offer and support a variety of targeted and engaging professional development experiences that align with the UCO mission and tenets. Uses research, data analysis, and a variety of feedback mechanisms to guide decisions about the types of online and instructor-led professional development experiences we offer UCO faculty, staff, and student employees. Creates and converts courses and programs into meaningful, engaging online professional development opportunities for the HR department and assists other departments as approved. Ensures all programs, courses, and events incorporate adult and design learning principles, relevant and easy-to-use educational technology, diversity and inclusion standards, and align with University policies, procedures, and best practices. Creates and connects individuals to a variety of professional development resources, tools, guides. Stays on the pulse of best practices and makes recommendations that will enhance the quality of professional development opportunities available for UCO’s faculty, staff, and student employee populations. Displays excellence, integrity, reliability, and innovation throughout all interactions with faculty, staff, student employees, and other stakeholders.

Department Specific Essential Job Functions:

Plans, designs, facilitates, executes, and evaluates all aspects of the online and hybrid New Employee Orientation programs for faculty, staff, and student employees. Serves as a Talent Development department learning management system administrator for HR courses and sessions. Assists individuals and departments across campus with session registrations, cancellations, attendance reports, and system access and course completion challenges. Assists with advertising and promoting professional development participation and feedback in a variety of ways such as posting announcements, creating surveys, conducting needs analysis, and networking. Will represent Talent Development by serving on the People & Culture divisional communications team. Keeps our intranet site updated and makes change suggestions for our external website. Assists with sessions, programs, and special event preparation, setup, implementation, management, payments, attendance tracking, reports, and evaluation. Tracks and reports budget expenditures. Performs other related duties as assigned.

College/Department Overview:

The talent development specialist role works inside of the Talent Management team, which is part of the larger Human Resources department. Talent Management is ten distinct roles that work together to attract, empower and equip UCO faculty, staff, and student employees. This role will require someone who enjoys working as part of a team inside of a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

Qualifications Required:

Requires a bachelor's degree in Adult Education, HR, Communication, Education Technology, Instructional Design, Training or related field plus 3 years of equivalent work experience in a chosen field or 7+ years of equivalent work experience that provides knowledge of and exposure to fundamental theories, principles, and concepts. Requires the application of expertise in a chosen field that provided you with opportunities to develop and apply the skills of a talent development specialist, manage and implement a variety of professional development experiences, research and gain hands-on experience with the application of adult learning and/or instructional design theories, principles and best practices.

Qualifications Preferred:

M.Ed. or M.S. in training, Human Resources, Adult Education, Education Technology, Instructional Design, Communications, or a related field. Five years of professional experience writing coordinating and facilitating employee development programs and sessions, and developing adult learning opportunities. Analysis, design, development, and implementation of online courses, web-based training, and face-to-face training curricula experience. Experience with (or ability to quickly learn) learning management system administration (Skillport) or standard academic and productivity applications. Experience with utilizing Articulate Rise.

Will this employee supervise others?

No.

Physical Demands:

Reasonable accommodations (in accordance with ADA requirements) may be made, upon request, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.