Junior Learning and Development Specialist at Ignition Group

The role: 

Leaving a legacy starts with the small things. We believe that every interaction we experience is an opportunity to make the world around us better.

Ignition Group is seeking a Junior Learning and Development Specialist who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and has a strong training and development background.

As the Junior Learning and Development Specialist, you will be responsible for analysing, designing and developing high quality training content for technical and non-technical learning programs for various projects within the People team. This role focuses on instructional design, curriculum development, employee development and facilitation and program management.

The detail:

• Assess training and development needs through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and communication with managers, instructors, and customer representatives.
• Create, organize, plan, and present various forms of onboarding, orientation, and skills training for employees and customers.
• Develop unique training programs to fulfil workers specific needs to maintain or improve job skills.
• Create and/or acquires training procedure manuals, guides, and course materials.
• Present training and development programs using various forms and formats including group discussion, lecture, simulations, and videos.
• Maintain records of training and development activities, attendance, results of tests and assessments, and retraining requirements.
• Evaluate program effectiveness through assessments, surveys, and feedback.
• Maintain knowledge of the latest trends in training and development.
• Prepare and implements training budget; maintains records and reports of expenses.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Are you this person?

• Are you familiar with SCORM, online learning, learning technology, instructional, graphic, and/or web design or development?
• Do you have strong interpersonal, presentation, problem solving and formal training skills?
• Are you a constituent Assessor and Moderator with any SETA? 
• Are you familiar with: WSP/ATR submissions and SDF certification?
• Do you have facilitation experience in both learnership and short courses?
• Do you have 4 or more years training experience in the corporate environment?
• Do you have 2 or more years of experience in a curriculum development role or similar, managing medium to large scale programs while working cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders?
• Do you have experience on leading projects for an entire group or department, or a major piece of a larger cross company product or projects
• Do you have experience using data collection, research, and analysis to evaluate project outcomes and improve and organizational performance?
• Do you have experience with technical, field-based, or customer service organizations?