Learning & Development Specialist – Part-Time
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Part-time Learning & Development Specialist implementing learning programs for a federal acquisition cohort. Developing curricula, mentoring, analytics, and career-development frameworks remotely.
Responsibilities:
- Lead implementation of the Government-established learning and career-development framework for a 10- to 25-person early-career acquisition cohort
- Develop and maintain the Development Framework and Curriculum Plan
- Coordinate learning across federal acquisition, procurement, contracting, business, customer engagement, market research, acquisition planning, data literacy, digital acquisition, emerging technologies, communication, negotiation, project management, leadership, ethics, and career planning
- Design and facilitate workshops, case studies, speaker series, leadership engagements, peer-learning sessions, mission briefings, innovation challenges, capstone projects, networking sessions, and communities of practice
- Develop facilitator guides, participant materials, job aids, learning schedules, presentations, exercises, case materials, assessments, and accessible digital resources
- Support participants' Individual Development Plans and developmental roadmaps
- Establish processes for enrollment, attendance, completion, make-up activities, communications, resource distribution, feedback, and learning-record maintenance
- Coordinate mentor and mentee guides, matching support, orientation, engagement tracking, pulse surveys, and issue escalation
- Support rotational and developmental assignments, including objectives, schedules, stakeholder communications, feedback, completion tracking, and outcome documentation
- Maintain participant learning and development data, including training, IDP milestones, certifications, rotations, mentoring, competencies, assignments, feedback, risks, and corrective actions
- Apply Government-approved status criteria to identify participants who are on track, at risk, or behind and recommend interventions
- Develop learning measurement strategies covering reaction, learning, application, milestone attainment, competency progression, participant and supervisor experience, and program outcomes
- Analyze relationships between developmental activities and participant progression, retention, competency growth, and career milestones
- Provide measures, trends, risks, insights, and recommended actions for dashboards, reports, analytics, executive briefings, evaluations, and continuous-improvement reviews
- Conduct recurring needs assessments and use stakeholder feedback to identify gaps, barriers, successful practices, and automation opportunities
- Coordinate framework-change recommendations with acquisition workforce development and certification officials
- Maintain curriculum assets, data definitions, procedures, version histories, lessons learned, and transition materials
- Ensure products and records comply with federal privacy, information-security, records-management, system-access, and Section 508 requirements
- Respond to Government and participant inquiries within service levels and escalate material gaps
Requirements:
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in learning and development, instructional design, curriculum implementation, workforce development, talent development, adult education, organizational development, or a closely related field
- Bachelor's degree in instructional design, adult education, organizational development, human resources, learning sciences, public administration, business, or a related field
- Experience leading end-to-end learning programs from needs assessment and curriculum planning through delivery, administration, evaluation, reporting, and continuous improvement
- Advanced knowledge of adult-learning principles, instructional design, blended learning, facilitation, assessment, learning transfer, and program-evaluation methods
- Experience developing measurable learning objectives, sequenced curricula, facilitator guides, participant materials, exercises, job aids, surveys, assessments, and learning-evaluation plans
- Experience managing individual development plans, competency frameworks, mentoring programs, rotational assignments, cohort learning, leadership development, or early-career development programs
- Ability to translate policy, competency, certification, and workforce requirements into practical learning experiences and trackable developmental milestones
- Experience analyzing learning and development data and communicating findings to program and executive audiences
- Strong facilitation, presentation, consultation, coaching, stakeholder-management, writing, editing, and project-coordination skills
- Ability to manage concurrent learning events, participant needs, deliverables, dependencies, and changing priorities while maintaining accurate documentation and quality control
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint
- Experience with a learning-management system, survey platform, virtual-learning platform, or comparable learning technology
- Ability to protect applicant and employee information and satisfy applicable federal suitability, onboarding, confidentiality, accessibility, records, and information-handling requirements
- Must reside in the contiguous United States
- Must be available to travel to Washington, DC and other locations occasionally/as needed
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Paid time off
- Commuting reimbursement
- 401(k) with matching
- Wellness subsidies
- LTD/STD/AD&D insurance
- Salary plus incentive (bonus) compensation
- Work-life balance focus
- Remote work arrangement
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