Learning & Development Associate

Position Summary

Responsible for designing, conducting and organizing training programs to improve employee performance and ensure organizational productivity. Will analyze training needs and recommend appropriate development strategy(s).

Essential Functions

• Assess training needs through consultation with managers, interviews with employees, focus groups, or surveys to develop new programs or modify and improve existing programs to meet emerging organizational or individual trends, needs or skill gaps.
• Plan, develop, and provide training and staff development programs using knowledge of effective adult learning methods such as classroom training, seminars, demonstrations, on-the-job training, meetings, conferences, and workshops. Select and use training / instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation and audience.
• Offer specific training programs to help workers maintain or improve job skills.
• Develop or obtain training manuals, guides, course materials, handouts, and multimedia visual aids.
• Evaluate training materials such as textbooks and handouts to ensure that material being presented to employees is appropriate to the audience, relevant and aligned with needs assessment and skills gap analysis for the employee and the organization.
• Conduct or arrange for the delivery of ongoing technical and skills training and personal development classes for managers and staff. Present information to trainees using a variety of instructional techniques or formats, such as role playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures.
• Train managers and supervisors in techniques and skills for coaching and developing employees.
• Monitor training costs to ensure budget is not exceeded; prepare cost / benefit analysis to justify training expenditures.
• Develop testing and evaluation procedures for skills and technical training programs.
• Build and maintain organization-wide training database; create management reports as requested.
• Create and maintain an annual training calendar based upon needs analysis; adjustment the calendar as attendance and emerging needs dictate.
• Administer annual compliance assignments for all employees.
• Deliver monthly HR Orientation sessions.

Additional Functions

Job Requirements and Qualifications

Education and Experience

Licenses and Certifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Physical Requirements

Working Conditions

Compliance

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

This job description is not an employment agreement or contract, implied or otherwise. Unity Bank maintains "at will" employment.

This document describes the position currently available. It is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the position and is not an exhaustive list of skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities, or working conditions associated with it. Unity Bank reserves the right to modify duties or job descriptions at any time. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods, or otherwise balance the workload.

Unity Bank is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and prohibits discrimination in hiring, promotion and terms and conditions of employment on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin / nationality, ancestry, religion / religious practices or observances, age, sex, gender identity or expression, affectional or sexual orientation, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, disability or perceived disability, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, and status as a veteran or disabled veteran of, or liability for service in, the Armed Forces of the United States.

Unity Bank commits to making reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities and qualified disabled veterans provided the individual is able to perform the essential functions of the job , unless such accommodation would impose an undue hardship upon Unity Bank. A qualified employee or job applicant with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting Unity Bank's human resources department.