Duration: Long Term Contract (At least 2 years)
Clearance Requirement: Must have an active Secret Clearance to be considered
Required Skills:
- Ability to work onsite in Los Angeles, CA (El Segundo) 4-5 days per week
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (OR minimum of 5 years of related experience).
- Experience in developing and facilitating workforce training programs.
- Familiarity in instructional design principles and best practices.
- Advise as Subject Matter Expert on business innovation, modernization, and transformation projects.
- Experience working with agile methodologies and modern business practices
- Experience in facilitating workshops, trainings, and key sessions for strategic planning efforts and execution.
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
Preferred Skills:
- Expertise in project management frameworks and methodologies, innovation and design thinking frameworks.
- Knowledge of change management methodologies, strategic communication plans, workshop facilitation, and skills coaching.
- Ability to lead and manage innovation projects, ensuring timely delivery and budget adherence, while evaluating emerging technologies to recommend potential applications for the customer.
- Experience in design and implement innovation frameworks and processes, and establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and report the impact of innovation initiatives to senior leadership.
- Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate innovative solutions, and identify and mitigate risks to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies,
- Professional certifications in training and development (e.g., CPTD, ATD).
- Professional management certifications: (e.g., Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP). At least 10 years of experience in business administration, innovation, strategic planning, or engineering-related services
- Master’s Degree in Business Administration or at least 10 years of relevant experience.
Day-to-day Responsibilities: We are seeking a highly motivated Workforce Training & Development Specialist to support a critical training and development initiative aligned with mission priorities and performance objectives. This role will analyze current training programs, collaborate with leadership to identify and address training gaps, and help build scalable, modular training curricula to drive workforce readiness.
The selected candidate will have several responsibilities from day to day drawn from a wide array of activities and experience working in the following areas:
- Analyze existing workforce training materials to ensure alignment with mission goals and performance metrics.
- Support development and execution of plans to continue delivery of ongoing trainings and workshops.
- Collaborate with leadership to identify gaps in curriculum and prioritize new training material development.
- Summarize findings, incorporate feedback, and update training topics and objectives accordingly.
- Assist in creating a comprehensive workforce training plan, including measurable outcomes and timelines.
- Develop modular, repeatable, and scalable training curricula that can be adjusted as needed.
- Implement training curricula and deliver targeted training in accordance with established plans.
- Coordinate administrative and logistical support related to training updates and delivery.
- Creating strategic communication products for senior leadership and workforce reporting.
- Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary.
- Conducting research activities, draw connections between latest regulations/policies and acquisition management gaps, and formulate logical justifications for potential acquisition policy pilots.
- Building, testing, and maintaining various project management tools and templates on a routine basis, and support the decommissioning or updating of outdated tools or templates
Expected Deliverables:
- Analyzed Workforce Training Offering Materials
- Plan for Continuing Delivery of In-Flight Trainings and Workshops
- Identified Curriculum Gaps and Prioritized Topics
- Summarized Findings, Recommendations, and Priorities
- Final Updated Version of Training Enhancement Recommendations
- SSC Workforce Training Plan (D5)
- Modular, Sequential Training Curricula (D6)
- Implemented Training Curricula
- Evaluated Training Effectiveness
- Scaled Training Program