Job Description

Senior Director, Training Hub

About StriveTogether
StriveTogether is a national movement with a clear purpose: helping every child succeed in school and in life from cradle to career, regardless of race, ethnicity, zip code or circumstance. We work to break down barriers, change systems and improve outcomes with the Cradle to Career Network, made up of nearly 70 communities across the country. StriveTogether provides resources, best practices and processes to give every child every chance for success.

The StriveTogether team is passionate, talented and dedicated to achieving our mission. We seek and value all kinds of diversity and work hard to eliminate inequities in ourselves, our organization and our communities. Our goals are bold, so we support each other to try new things, have tough conversations and push for change. As we work, we share learning and progress, use data to make decisions and celebrate our wins.

About you

You are a champion of race equity, committed to ensuring all children succeed regardless of race, socioeconomic status or zip code and desire to support people across communities to change systems and improve outcomes. You are passionate about and believe in a collaborative, community-driven approach. As an innovative thinker, you always seek better ways to deliver training and capability building opportunities that ensure lasting impact. You are skilled and get energy from implementing and holding accountability for a complex and time-bound set of adult learning offerings. You believe in connecting diverse audiences to courses and offerings that support them to turn complex ideas into actionable insights. Your leadership style is inclusive, motivating, and rooted in empathy and understanding. You are adept at navigating change, scaling initiatives and always place the needs of stakeholders and their communities at the forefront.

About the position

Reporting to the Vice President, Training, the Senior Director, Training Hub will play a critical role in shaping, leading and scaling StriveTogether’s Training Hub courses and offerings. This role is responsible for co-designing, developing, and delivering best in class eLearning courses and offerings for place-based leaders across the country. This role is also responsible for ensuring that StriveTogether’s methodologies and recommended approaches are disseminated effectively. A successful candidate will possess strong customer service, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities and duties

Delivery & Scale Training Hub Offerings

• Steward the Training Hub as the premier place for place-based leaders to develop the knowledge and skills they need to change systems and improve outcomes by leveraging and coordinating the Training Hub team to implement a high-volume roster of workshops and courses.
• Develop and implement a strategic roadmap for delivering and scaling Training Hub workshops, courses and other offerings that reaches 75,000 engagements by 2030.
• Support the design and implementation of impactful, interactive and innovative Training Hub offerings for a diverse range of audiences, including community members, place-based partnership staff and key partners. This includes building strategies to deliver training in various formats and platforms to ensure a wider reach.
• Collect feedback, evaluate Training Hub offering effectiveness and continuously refine and enhance offerings
• Work closely with others to ensure that Training Hub offerings are aligned with organizational goals.
• Support work with key stakeholders to identify new Training Hub offerings and adjust existing offerings to meet participant needs.

Team Leadership

• Cultivate a robust Training Hub team for optimized delivery at scale. Ensure the team is well-prepared to tackle challenges of rapid growth and expansion of offerings.
• Lead, mentor and develop the training and development team of staff and consultants to ensure consistent and high-quality delivery across all Training Hub offerings
• Engage with other StriveTogether teams to ensure Training Hub offerings align with needs of Cradle to Career Network Members and the place-based partnership field.

Internal Alignment

• Coordinate with team members including Director of Training and Director, Director of Instructional Design and others on relevant and integrated programmatic supports.
• Work across StriveTogether teams to ensure consistency and alignment of offerings and in alignment with StriveTogether priorities.
• Monitor and evaluate trainee progress at the program population level, synthesizing data to support action around continuous program improvement.

Qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s degree or 5 years of lived, related experience, Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum of 5 years experience in training, with a significant focus on delivery at scale with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity
• Believes deeply in championing race equity and committed to ensuring all individuals succeed regardless of race, socioeconomic status or zip code
• Proven record in designing, implementing and scaling training programs for diverse audiences
• Understanding of various training platforms and methodologies
• Strong facilitation and public speaking skills
• Familiarity with community-driven work and public sectors
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrated expertise in leading teams through periods of growth and change
• Ability to think critically and solve problems
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Approximately 20% travel required

Benefits, perks and flexibility

Time Away

• Sick, vacation, personal, floating holiday/wellness day, bereavement, jury duty
• 11 paid company holidays and a paid winter break the last week of December
• Paid parental leave
• Paid sabbatical after seven years of employment
• Paid time off to vote
• Caregiver time off

Benefits

• Medical and dental plans
• 100% paid vision, short-term and long-term disability and basic life insurance.
• $2,500 annual HSA contribution for users of high-deductible health care plans
• Cellphone and internet stipend
• Competitive retirement plan with automatic employer contribution and match
• Professional development
• Employee Assistance Program

Perks

• Remote work opportunities available
• Choice of Mac or PC for your work computer
• Birthday gift card
• DeskPass access (community desk and meeting room options for remote team members)
• Company credit card for internal expenses

Perks at our Cincinnati headquarters

• Employer paid parking
• Hybrid work model with two work-from-home days each week
• Rooftop deck
• Snacks and beverages
• Dog friendly office

StriveTogether provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, domestic partnership status, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 100,000 and above.

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