The Specialist, Staff Learning & Development supports the College's staff learning and development efforts by designing, coordinating, delivering, and maintaining professional development (PD) programs that strengthen staff skills, confidence, and engagement. This position applies foundational instructional design skills and adult learning principles, used specifically for designing staff professional development events, curriculum and content, learning materials, resources, and job aids that enhance staff readiness and professional development.
 
Situated within the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), the Specialist collaborates with CTL colleagues, Faculty Development Committee, and others on shared or cross-functional projects such as professional learning communities and CTL-sponsored shared learning events. While collaboration is essential for cohesive CTL programming, the Specialist's responsibilities remain focused exclusively on staff development and do not include designing or delivering faculty-specific instructional content or academic course materials. This position requires a high degree of independence, strong project management skills, record maintenance, and the ability to create clear, accessible learning experiences. 
 
 Shift: Monday - Friday; 8:00am - 5:00pm
 Location: Springfield Location

• Develops, designs, and coordinates staff PD workshops, events, and learning programs including scheduling, planning, communication, facilitation, and support.

• Creates and updates learning materials, digital learning resources, microlearning content, and job aids using instructional design and adult learning principles to support staff skill development.

• Coordinates, designs, and maintains the supplemental staff onboarding eLearning course with input from campus colleagues, introducing new staff to College roles, systems, culture, and processes, and ensuring accuracy and consistency.

• Builds, organizes, and maintains staff professional development content within the LMS and CTL-supported learning systems.

• Ensures staff PD opportunities and materials are promoted, accessible, engaging, current, and aligned with institutional policies and expectations.

• Provides structured 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions to support staff professional growth planning and development.

• Guides staff in using self-assessment tools and professional development resources and supports colleagues in identifying or coordinating staff-focused professional development opportunities aligned with role expectations or compliance requirements.

• Collaborates with appropriate colleagues to coordinate compliance training to ensure state and federal requirements are met.

• Collaborates with CTL colleagues, Faculty Development Committee, and others on shared or cross-functional CTL projects.

• Supports shared CTL programming while maintaining a staff-development focus and not designing faculty-specific content or academic instructional materials.

• Maintains the CTL professional development calendar and summarizes participation and feedback data.

• Represents the college at local, regional, state, and national meetings and conferences related to professional development.

• Participates in the shared governance environment by serving on or supporting committees and work groups as assigned, representing staff development needs without assuming responsibility for faculty-specific or policy-making functions.

• Provides occasional on-site support at the Library (e.g., brief reference desk coverage or assisting with basic student-facing tasks such as badge printing) as needed and as directed, without assuming ongoing library operations responsibilities.

• All other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Knowledge and Skills

Experience
Two years to five years of similar or related experience to include professional-level experience in training and development, instructional design and delivery, training coordination, or related occupation. 
Coursework in education, teaching, workforce education, adult education, occupational training, or a related field is preferred.
Experience in higher education setting with employee development focus is preferred. 

Education
A Bachelor's degree. 
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Requires travel to multiple campus locations; a valid driver's license and/or dependable transportation is required. 

Interpersonal Skills
A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact. Work involves extensive personal contact with others and/or can be of a personal or sensitive nature. Work may involve motivating or influencing others. Outside contacts become important and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary and often requires the ability to influence and/or sell ideas or services to others. 

Other Skills
Strong discretion, coaching, facilitation, and communication skills to support staff development conversations.
Skill in incorporating data – gathering and data - informed practices to support the development of effective learning events.
Skill in reviewing participation data and feedback to recommend improvements to staff PD offerings.
Foundational understanding of instructional design models (e.g., ADDIE, Bloom’s Taxonomy) for designing staff learning resources.
Understanding of adult learning principles and their application to staff development.
Skill in leveraging technology and developing accessible digital learning materials, microlearning modules, and onboarding resources.
Ability to use technology to track staff PD and compliance training.
Proficiency in using the LMS to build, organize, assign staff PD and compliance training.
Ability to coordinate in – person and online staff PD events including scheduling, communication, planning, and facilitation support.
Ability to collaborate effectively with CTL colleagues and Faculty Development Committee on shared projects while remaining staff-focused.
Capacity to manage multiple learning projects independently in a lean environment and meet timelines.
Basic technical troubleshooting ability for staff accessing LMS-based PD and compliance training.
Ability to provide occasional on-site support at the Library (e.g., brief reference desk coverage or badge printing) without assuming ongoing library responsibilities.
Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to maintain accurate records for compliance tracking and PD coordination. 

Physical Requirements

The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking, standing, bending, carrying of light items, driving an automobile, etc. No special physical demands are required to perform the work. 

Work Environment

Regular exposure to favorable conditions such as those found in a normal office.