Title: Learning Manager

Hiring Range: $70,853 -$115,136

Pay Band: 5

Agency: VA Dept of Transportation

Location: Dept of Transportation

Agency Website: https://www.virginiadot.org/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Human Resource Division is seeking a dynamic learning professional to serve as the Learning Manager for Central Office. The Central Office is located in downtown Richmond.

As the Learning Manager, you will collaborate on the development and delivery of training services; use a holistic approach to organizational development that includes conducting needs assessments to identify root causes; and prescribe training and non-training interventions to solve real business problems. You will interact and collaborate with diverse audiences both internal and external VDOT, and work to ensure employee development initiatives align with the agency’s business needs and objectives.

The Learning Manager implements VDOT workforce development programs dedicated to meeting statewide and local learning needs; encourages and facilitates a transformative learning culture essential in developing VDOT’s current and future workforce; builds strong collaborative relationships and partnerships with Agency leadership and Human Resources teams locally and statewide to evaluate and deliver workforce development programs for compliance with government standards, emerging business needs, and individual development; proactively engages stakeholders to identify, develop, and deliver just-in-time learning remedies to support local business needs; partners directly with managers and employees to identify competency gaps for current or future career opportunities, and identifies and offers developmental resources to address; and actively collaborated with key stakeholders to improve efficiency and effectiveness of local learning programs or to develop and deliver new programs to meet emerging needs.

We have Shared Values and a Code of Ethics: Your success in our organization depends upon modeling these values, therefore please access the following link: http://www.virginiadot.org/about/missionandvalues.asp to review them and, if in agreement, we welcome you to apply.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of organizational development and change management strategies, compliance training, and adult educational theories, practices and principles.
  
• Experienced in data gathering techniques, needs assessment, training development, and delivery methods.
  
• Skilled in the use of computers and web-based applications.
  
• Experience in developing and delivering training curriculum's to include technology-based delivery methods.
  
• Ability to develop, manage, and monitor administrative and learning budget expenditures and maintain appropriate records related to learning events.
  
• Ability to partner and communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with diverse audiences to make presentations and conduct meetings.
  
• Ability to assess, plan, and adapt to emerging employee learning needs by conducting root cause analysis, plan work based on overall organization business goals, and meet regulatory requirements.
  
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships at all VDOT employee levels. Manage projects and multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
  
• Able to thrive independently while also supporting and delivering on broader team goals. Able to balance local and statewide learning needs.
  
• Experience using blended learning, learning management systems, and providing career development coaching.
  
• Occasional travel required across District facilities and in other state locations as needed or directed to deliver HR services or attend meetings.
  
• Valid driver’s license required.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four-year degree in industrial psychology, organizational development, public administration, business administration or education preferred; equivalent experience or training may substitute for a degree.
  
• Experience applying creative problem-solving skills to large organization learning, training, development or performance issues by assessing or implementing holistic solutions that solve problems.
  
• Experience with mentorship programs, career and developmental coaching, organizational development or continuous improvement.
  
• Certification as a Leadership Coach, Master Trainer, or Facilitator, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness (DISC) profile assessment.
  
• Progressively responsible experience in training curriculum design and instruction using virtual, distance, E-Learning, or microlearning.
  
• Experience using Cornerstone On Demand or equivalent Learning Management Systems (LMS), Microsoft SharePoint, Adobe Connect, WebEx, Google, or other similar technology
  
• First Aid and CPR instructor certification is desirable.
  

Special Instructions:

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

• Once onboarded, this position may be eligible for telework opportunities; availability, hours, and duration of telework shall be approved as outlined in the Commonwealth telework policy.
  
• This position requires a fingerprint based Criminal History Background Check, DMV Record Check and Work History Verification with references.
  
• You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.
  
• We are a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application.
  
• VDOT utilizes a market-based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM. Therefore, advertised rates of pay may or may not align with the Commonwealth pay bands.
  
• VDOT is an emergency operation agency. Positions physically working within Central Office locations may be designated upon request with coordination among the respective District Engineer or Administrator and Chief.
  
• Employees in this position may be required to work on projects located anywhere within the geographic District (Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Arlington Counties, and City of Alexandria) during the course of their employment.
  
• Assignments are updated annually. Not all designated employees are provided with an emergency operations assignment.
  

Contact Information:

Name: Logan Sanchez

Phone: 804-807-3482

Email: Logan.Sanchez@vdot.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their Certificate of Disability (COD) provided by a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor within the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their Certificate of Disability. If you need to get a Certificate of Disability, use this link: Career Pathways for Individuals with Disabilities, or call DARS at 800-552-5019, or DBVI at 800-622-2155.