Enterprise Learning and Development Partner

Job Summary

This role is pivotal in shaping the future of our workforce and driving the Farmers’ success through innovative learning and development strategies.

As a leader, you will align with Workforce Architects to support the Talent Strategy and develop employees at all levels to operate as a high-performance culture. Specifically, this role leads the design, development, and implementation of programs and strategies to fulfill organizational development needs and achieve program objectives. You would be accountable for training effectiveness and delivery of quality learning and development experiences. If your passions center on recommending and creating effective development programs and learning solutions that drive needed skill, behavior, and performance change in their audience, using contemporary techniques this is the perfect place to own decisions and create a tangible impact.

Essential Job Functions

Critical functions of the role are as follows:

• Leads the effective implementation or ongoing delivery of learning and development solutions. This may include providing expert facilitation or upskilling others to deliver these solutions by identifying appropriate subject matter experts to act as learning leaders, conducting train-the-trainers, observing delivery of programs, and providing coaching and feedback to the learning leaders.
• Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of learning and development solutions by measuring against established success metrics, effort, and impact.
• Makes recommendations on how to scale or improve solutions based on data insights gained from feedback and program performance.
• Acts as a consultative partner with human resources and business leaders, conducts need analysis and assessments to understand needs, and provides recommendations to enhance employee, leadership, or team effectiveness and drive improved performance or business results.
• Scopes business requirements and constraints and establishes clear measurements of success. Promotes collaboration and strategic partnerships across value streams that may contribute to or would be impacted by proposed solutions.
• Rapidly prototypes, refines, and deploys at scale. Designs, develops and recommends cutting edge learning and development solutions that address business needs efficiently and align to strategic priorities.
• Ingrains development into the flow of work to build and reinforce our learning culture. Leverages solutions including but not limited to collaboration, communities, social media, curation, and expert shares.
• Modernizes our learning techniques to include AI, microlearning, and other cutting edge technologies along with traditional learning solutions to create high-impact, low investment solutions that maximize ROI.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of applicable, formal instructional design experience with a focus on leadership and management development.
• Minimum 5 years in organizational development directly related to leadership and professional development.
• Certification and experience in instructional design and content authoring tools - preferred.
• Certification and experience in delivering leadership and professional development programs - preferred. C
• ertification and experience in administering and/or providing coaching feedback on talent assessments - preferred.

Education Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelors degree preferred in organizational development, organizational psychology, human resources, or a business-related discipline.
• Masters degree preferred in organizational psychology, organizational development, or business administration.

Additional Qualifications

• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Experience with emerging modalities.
• Extensive knowledge of skills development and capacity-building strategies.
• Ability to build strong customer relationships.
• Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills.
• Effectively coaches and delivers constructive feedback.

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