Senior Specialist, Training & Performance Excellence

• Develops, implements, and delivers training programs to Service Desk and Field Services staff. Identifies and develops training programs through needs assessment, observations, and review of key performance indicators.
• Creates training course content as appropriate for the Service Desk or Field Services staff under the direction of the Training Manager.
• Designs and creates training presentations and job manuals, job aids and other support training materials.
• Manages the development of training of new and existing employees on new projects, processes and systems.
• Ensures coaching, development and follow up with employees after completion of the training courses.
• Conducts training evaluations to establish the effectiveness of the training course.
• Works collaboratively with the Training Manager in the planning, development, presentation and evaluation of Service Desk and Field Services training programs.
• Assesses requests for new training programs and changes to existing training programs and scheduling processes.
• Assesses each course within a proposed program to identify the training facility and the resource requirements. Identifies the effect impact of all training scheduling and resource allocation activities for both the Service Desk and the Field Services organizations.
• Creates change management and communications documentation as identified the preestablished communication plan.
• May provide coaching and mentoring to more junior Training Specialists

• High School/GED and at least 2 years of experience training in a service desk or field service organization
• Experience with MS Office Suite.
• Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).
• Experience with training tools.
• Experience facilitating group discussion (including scribing, recording, timekeeping, and leading discussions.
• Experience developing and delivering presentations to various audience levels within an organization.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting deadlines of multiple projects with varying completion dates.
• Experience in providing training and developing process documentation/user manuals for staff in a Field Service or Service Desk organization.
• Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
• Experience communicating both verbally (on phone, one-on-one, to groups) and in writing (emails, letters, reports, presentations) to various audiences (work group, team, company management, prospective acquisitions, external clients).
• Experience developing ways of accomplishing goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary.
• Experience establishing & maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community & with vendors.
• Willing to travel up to/at least 25% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)

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