Manager, Learning Integration (Chicago/Hybrid) (2 Positions Available)
Description
Work. Serve. Thrive.
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.
Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America’s Chicago office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
The Opportunity
The Manager, Learning Integration supports specific functional and priority areas across Feeding America National Organization and the Network Department by developing learning assets in alignment with a knowledge management and learning comprehensive strategy for the Feeding America network. The Manager, Learning Integration supports their assigned subject matter experts to use learning as a strategy to achieve their team and department goals. The Manager, Learning Integration is charged with delivering the highest quality learning resources, educational assets and experiences to those who serve people facing hunger; specifically, webinars, e-learning courses, templates, guides and tools as well as curation of network examples.
Compensation
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $96,000 - $101,000 Based on Experience.
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $96,000 - $101,000 Based on Experience.
Benefits: A comprehensive list of benefits available to full-time employees can be found here.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Under the direction of the Director, Knowledge Management and Learning Integration, support the design and facilitate cross-functional workgroups that co-create Learning Continuums and Learning Plans and related activities which align equally to the needs of network staff and Feeding America’s strategic priority. Work with SMEs to create and deploy annual learning plans for key functional areas.
- Support the comprehensive enterprise-wide knowledge management and learning integration strategies by aligning designated functional and priority area learning goals to the overall organization’s learning strategy.
- Collaborates with team colleagues on these strategies and creates deliverables in support of the strategies as directed by and in collaboration with the Director, Knowledge Management and Learning Integration.
- Support the documentation of processes for Learning Continuums, Learning Plans, Content Audits and self-assesments.
- Use the Digital Learning Design Model to create learning assets that supports the team, department, and organizational goals.
- Define: Facilitate and, as appropriate, secure experts, both within the network and external to it, to contribute to assessing learner needs and desires and curate content.
- Design: Partner with content experts to determine the learning approach and then design and develop digital learning assets.
- Deploy: With supervisor, determine the appropriate avenue to deploy the asset and partner with subject matter experts and Communications staff to promote the asset to network members.
- Assess: Review learning data and identify insights and recommendations for subject matter experts to consider when continuing to curate and refine the learning assets available.
- Supports learning design requests and the overall Learning Team with other assignments as needed and as directed by the Director, Knowledge Management and Learning Integration.
- Ensure offerings embrace inclusivity and accessibility as a core tenet, reinforce and extend in-person and live virtual learning engagements, strengthen the impact of capacity building services such as institutes, create pathways for deepening engagement of network members over time, and support opportunities for relationship building.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in training, teaching, designing, and implementing learning experiences, and/or developing learning tools and resources. Strong candidates for this role include but are by no means limited to those who, for instance, have experience in educator and corporate training, designing, and executing lesson plans, or creating online user experiences for students, customers, or colleagues.
- Experience in developing digital learning assets, e-learning, and content.
- Experience with adult education program design, development, delivery, and evaluation.
- Experience with Learning Management systems and Articulate Rise and Articulate Storyline authoring tools preferred.
- Proficiency using Adobe InDesign preferred.
Required Leadership Competencies:
- Fosters an Enterprise Mindset
- Fosters an Open and Supportive Environment
- Leads with Accountability
- Collaborates Internally and Externally
- Focuses on People and Teams
- Manages Organization and Business Complexity
- Communicates with Impact and Influence
Feeding America’s goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging and contribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences. We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need. We encourage all individuals, including those from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger, to apply.
Feeding America participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.