Learning and Development Specialist

Department Details

Join a team that supports evidence-based health promotion programs. This position coordinates these programs, oversees logistics, teaches the courses, supports other instructors, etc.

Remote position with occasional in person meetings and events. Applicants must reside within or near one of Sanfords four major markets.

Job Summary

• Provides coordination, learning, and development of Sanford employees, students, and/or community members.
• Customizes curriculum and develop training materials to ensure that organizational and stakeholder needs are met.
• Delivers training with a focus that utilizes adult learning principles and training methods.
• Strives towards successful development of coursework for ideal learning experience.
• Responsible for maintaining and updating existing training and education programs delegated.
• Performs quality checks to ensure satisfactory course functionalities and objectives are met.
• Based on skill set, training needs, and topic focus, will provide training in a variation of needs, including but not limited to: behind the scenes build and design, software based training, classroom setting both virtually and in-person with direct facilitation, and/or orientation to small and large groups.
• Role potentially will include creation of online learning modules and delivering webinar and classroom training based on department training needs and curriculum.
• Works closely with remote subject matter experts regarding the design, build, and maintenance of training content needs based on educational course topics and the initiatives driven within the department.
• Additional responsibilities may include following established checklists, writing course descriptions, revising courses as needed, maintaining course catalog database when applicable, acting as a peer reviewer, and redesigning learning objects to increase effectiveness.
• May coordinate training schedules as needed for intended audience and population.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships, manage projects, facilitate change processes and effectively communicate to achieve organizational goals.
• Demonstrates successfully working with diverse groups of people in order to accomplish a common goal.
• Demonstrate flexibility as well as effective planning and organizational skills.
• Effective communication skills are essential: personal, verbal, written, and electronic.
• Ability to function in a collaborative, fast-paced, customer-driven organization.
• Demonstrable proficiency in Microsoft Office/Windows applications, analytical decision-making, information gathering, presentation, project management, group facilitation, innovative problem solving, and demonstrable training skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. Field of study preference based on department training focus and specialties. If no degree, will consider six years equivalent work experience as a potential alternative.

Additionally, prefer to have minimum of two years’ experience in a healthcare environment providing education/training, including the use of automated software applications. Ideally have project management experience as well as knowledge of adult learning principles and training methods is preferred.

Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications based on program training needs of the department and population focus.

Benefits

Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org .

Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

About Organization

Sanford Health is the largest rural health system in the U.S. Our organization is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, we serve more than one million patients and 220,000 health plan members across 250,000 square miles. Our integrated health system has 47 medical centers, 2,800 physicians and advanced practice providers, 170 clinical investigators and research scientists, more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations, and world clinics in eight countries around the globe. Learn more about our commitment to shaping the future of rural health care at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.