We are seeking a Learning & Development Specialist to support manager effectiveness and leadership development initiatives for a global organization. This person will lead instructional design, project management, facilitation, and deployment of learning experiences that help managers and leaders build high-performing teams.
Location: Remote – South Carolina
Contract: 9 months
Schedule: Monday–Friday
Pay: Up to $70/hour
Travel Required: Up to 10%
Duties
- Partner with L&D, HRBPs, and functional leaders to identify needs, prioritize initiatives, and manage learning projects.
- Design and deploy learning through live virtual, on-demand, micro-learning, and just-in-time formats.
- Develop practical Manager Essentials resources around 1:1s, goal setting, feedback, performance management, coaching, accountability, change management, and other key manager responsibilities.
- Build leadership development experiences focused on high-performing teams, leadership expectations, talent development, and peer learning.
- Facilitate virtual workshops, leadership labs, manager practice sessions, stakeholder meetings, and train-the-trainer sessions.
- Create reusable learning assets including facilitator guides, discussion guides, checklists, job aids, communications, and LMS-ready resources.
- Curate external learning resources when appropriate while developing customized internal tools and materials.
- Support AI literacy and AI productivity enablement for managers and leaders, including practical use cases and coaching resources.
- Track project milestones, adoption, stakeholder feedback, risks, and deliverables while providing regular project updates.
Requirements
- Experience with instructional design across live, virtual, on-demand, micro-learning, and just-in-time learning formats.
- Project or program management experience working with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Experience facilitating and coaching managers and leaders.
- Background in manager effectiveness, leadership development, high-performing teams, or talent development.
- Experience supporting global learning initiatives and diverse audiences.
- Working knowledge of AI literacy, AI productivity, or AI-enabled learning/coaching.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate business needs into practical learning and observable behaviors.
- Ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, build relationships quickly, and deliver high-quality work on schedule.