The Town of Erie’s Human Resources Department is on the search for our newest team member, to join us as our Learning and Development (L&D) Specialist. Our team highly values collaboration, accountability and a dedication to our Town’s shared mission of delivering exceptional public service with honesty, efficiency, and compassion.
A successful L&D Specialist with our Town will be a proactive relationship-builder, who can be a champion for our current L&D tools (including Paycom Learning, Insights Discovery and Crucial Conversations) with the ability to bring fresh content and tools to our employees.
This position requires strong communication and organizational skills, as there will be numerous opportunities to collaborate with both internal subject matter experts and external facilitators.
Anticipated Work Schedule: Full-time; Monday-Friday;40 hours per week with some nights and weekends as needed.
Work Location: Erie Co-Working Space, 660 Briggs St
- This position is eligible to work remotely two days a week and required to work in-office three days.
THIS POSTING WILL CLOSE 11:59PM ON SUNDAY, 2/2/25. PLEASE ENSURE YOUR APPLICATION IS COMPLETE FOR CONSIDERATION.
2025 Hiring Range: $76,456 - $91,747
2025 Full Range: $76,456 - $107,039
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Acts as a subject matter expert in staff learning and development disciplines and provides, focus, and guidance to employees, supervisors, managers, and department heads in developing and fostering a growth mindset amongst all staff.
- Designs townwide programs and processes to support learning and development initiatives. Facilitates instructor-led training. Designs and selects content and accompanying materials for learning opportunities.
- Designs, develops, implements, evaluates, and improves organizational and individual development.
- Builds development strategies and sees them through to execution.
- Keeps current with leading research on L&D strategies and opportunities.
- Evaluates learning programs and collects data across all learning and development initiatives to gauge the success of a particular topic/training and tweak or change for future offerings in response to data and feedback collected.
- Helps employees with learning and development needs, coaching, and team facilitation activities.
- Coaches employees on career, individual development, facilitation of giving and receiving feedback, problem solving, and conflict resolution.
- Facilitates learning interventions and team meetings as directed by overall town strategy and individual department/division business initiatives.
- Develops and deliver manager/supervisor training to support internal advancement of staff.
- Develops and facilitate a leadership development program to help align with succession planning across the Town through identifying appropriate internal and external training and facilitating internal mentorship partnering.
- Works with senior leaders to identify the needs of all staff to deliver valuable insight, training, and recommendations.
- Works with supervisors and managers to assist in the development of performance management, set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound) goals, and identify and assess employee competencies.
- Collaborates closely with HR and Talent Acquisition teams to ensure learning and development initiatives support employee growth, engagement and retention strategies.
- Partners strategically with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) teams to develop and implement initiatives that align with diversity objectives and promote a culture of belonging.
- Obtains certification in Crucial Conversations and administers two-day course on a quarterly basis.
- Obtains certification in Insights Discovery and administers one half-day course on a quarterly basis
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2+ years of experience in adult learning, adult development, facilitation, instructional design, adult training, adult teaching or related field
A combination of Education and Experience may be considered.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, communications, public or business administration, or a related field preferred.
- Experience with learning management systems, preferred experience using Paycom.
- Strong facilitation and training experience within an in-person and virtual environment.
- Strong track record in designing, coordinating, launching, and promoting impactful focused development programs, training and initiatives across an organization to include employees for increased engagement, participation, and visibility.
- Experience in tracking and analyzing the effectiveness of training programs and willingness to customize and accommodate based on employee feedback or identified gaps.
- Experience in planning and coordinating events from start to finish.
- Experience in leading change and process improvement initiatives.
- Experience in needs assessment of training and development for employees.
- Demonstrated professionalism with a strong work ethic.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, both verbally and in writing, with audiences at all levels.
- Collaboration skills and ability to work effectively across all departments and engage staff at all levels.
- Strong attention to detail to spot issues, notice inconsistencies, and think and plan strategically to address concerns.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Pre-employment screenings include:
- Reference checks
- Background checks include: National and County Criminal Scan, Sex-Offender Registry check and Motor Vehicle Report through DMV
Town of Erie Benefits:
The Town of Erie offers a comprehensive benefit package and pays a major portion of the employee premium to make these benefits more affordable for you. Coverage of these benefits begin the 1st of the month following date of hire for benefited employees regularly working an average of 30 hours per week. Each year you will have the option of changing your elections through open enrollment. Click here to learn more.
Designated full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:
- Robust Medical, Dental and Vision plans including spouse, domestic partner and family coverage options
- Supplemental Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Plans
- Voluntary Life/AD&D
- Employer paid Basic Life/AD&D
- Employer paid Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Employer paid Employee Assistance Program
- Robust extended sick leave and family sick leave program
- Up to 48 hours of Colorado Sick Leave preloaded on the 1st of every year (pro-rated if hired after the 1st of the year)
- 3 ½ Weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year (increases with years of service)
- 40 hours of pre-loaded Paid Time Off (PTO) to each new employee upon hire
- Fifteen (15) Paid Holidays
- Twenty-Four (24) Hours of Paid Volunteer Leave
- Up to 12 weeks of paid Parental Leave for bonding with a new child
- Option to “sell back” PTO after two (2) years of continuous employment
- 457 Retirement Plan, with a 5% employer match and immediate 100% vesting in your deferral contributions AND employer contributions
- Education reimbursement up to $3,000 per year
- Individual free membership to the Erie Community Center and steep discounts on couple or family memberships.
- Employer sponsored wellness program, including employee-based fitness classes
- Childcare benefits which includes 10% discount to any KinderCare location in Colorado
- Half-off charging at town-owned EV charging stations
- Pet Insurance
- Employee Discount Program through Benefits Hub
- Eligible for discount Dell Computer program
- Onsite/virtual trainings for growth and development opportunities
We are a Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)-qualified employer!
EEOC Statement:
The Town is dedicated to the principles of equal employment opportunity in any term, condition or privilege of employment. Applicants, employees and former employees are protected from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, marital status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law. This prohibition includes unlawful harassment or discrimination based on any of these protected classes. Unlawful harassment includes verbal or physical conduct, which has the purpose or effect of substantially interfering with an individual’s work performance or creating a severe, intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment. This provision applies to all employees, including directors, supervisors, co-workers, and non-employees such as residents, members of all boards and task force groups, contractors, vendors, consultants, etc.
