Training Specialist – Disaster Recovery, Housing and Community Development

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Training Specialist developing and delivering training materials for CDBG-DR programs and HUD support. Engaging participants through interactive sessions and ensuring compliance with federal requirements.

Responsibilities:

  • Designing, developing, and delivering engaging in-person and virtual training materials for CDBGDR grantees and stakeholders, covering housing, infrastructure, mitigation, and other program implementation topics, as well as compliance and other federal grant requirement concepts
  • Facilitating engaging learning sessions, incorporating interactive activities, group discussions, case studies, and role-playing exercises to maximize participant engagement and knowledge retention
  • Delivering group and individual instructional trainings under the direction of a project manager, covering a range of technical, operational, and management areas
  • Contributing to product development projects, including serving as a subject-matter expert and potentially as an author, researcher, or developer, based on the needs of a given assignment in creating high-quality deliverables
  • Serving as a subject-matter expert for HUD disaster recovery programs, providing content expertise during training delivery and reflected in product development
  • Customizing content to specific audiences based on particular needs, learning capacity, and other considerations.
  • Delivering trainings on regulatory and grant-specific requirements, including but not limited to policies and procedures, national objectives, procurement, coordination with other federal funding streams, labor standards, citizen participation, and overall compliance
  • Ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with regulations for all developed materials

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Learning and Development, Organizational Management, Education, Public Policy, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Urban Planning, Public Administration, or other relevant field.
  • Minimum 8 years of experience working directly with CDBG-DR programs, HUD program and or other relevant affordable housing programs.
  • Minimum 2 years of experience utilizing various training platforms to conduct trainings in-person and virtually, designing and delivering training and technical assistance (TTA) services.
  • Excellent facilitation and presentation skills in virtual and face to face classroom delivery
  • Demonstrated knowledge of how housing, community and economic development, and disaster recovery programs are implemented at the state and/or local levels
  • Willingness to travel on occasionally

Benefits:

  • Reasonable Accommodations for disabled veterans and individuals with disabilities
  • Equal opportunity employment