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Sr. Learning Specialist | Prudential Financial | Newark, NJ
Prudential Financial, Inc. is a multinational financial services leader
with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management
expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional
customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock
symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that
has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of
products and services, including life insurance, annuities,
retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real
estate services. For more information, please visit http://www.prudential.com.
The Manager of curriculum development is responsible for the design and
development of innovative training solutions for our field sales
associates and field managers. You will be responsible for conducting
needs analysis, determining practical design solutions, leading
implementation strategies, writing concise training documents,
(participant guides, job aids, leaders guides, resource guides,
PowerPoints, eLearning story boards, etc.) and supporting the training
of the field-based training managers.
You will work with internal business partners as well as subject matter
experts to ensure consistent and practical designs that adhere to adult
learning design principles. Training solutions are developed in a fast
paced home office environment. The ideal candidate will be a
self-motivated, has strong intellectual and analytic skills, is
organized and a detail-oriented team player capable of working
independently or collaborating on instructional designs.
Responsibilities also include:
- Design and develop blended learning solutions from inception to
completion for delivery in-person and virtually by the Managers of
Agency Training in the Agency Distribution field model. Includes:
eLearning self-study courses, distance learning Sametimes, training
materials needed for business related projects, participant materials,
leader's guides, and supporting materials (handouts, job aids, resources
etc.) necessary for the implementation of local, virtual, cluster, and
centralized training experiences.
- General Project Management skills and ability to manage multiple
projects simultaneously in a task and target oriented environment with
an emphasis on speed to market.
- Monitoring the impact of the training programs by assessing
measurement results of learning initiatives, implementing enhancements
as needed.
- Partner with Agency Distribution Communications area to develop
communication strategy to effectively promote and announce training
programs and resources.
- Partner with members of other departments (product partners, technology
partners, field support business units, etc.) to ensure quality,
practicality and consistency of training materials developed and
communicated.
- To ensure field validation on designs, coordinate and collaborate with
field review teams to obtain feedback on overall design as well as on
materials in development. Field reviewers include Directors of Agency
Training, Managers of Agency Training, subject matter experts and
Centralized Training staff.
- Partner with the Implementation Team on supporting the delivery of
programs (e.g., distribution of materials for local implementation,
virtual train-the-trainer sessions, teleconferences, etc.).
- Partner with and occasionally direct the work of other instructional
designers, ensuring synchronicity of material, content and concepts
being developed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Other responsibilities:
- Coaching and counseling staff as needed
- Contribute to Performance Reviews for staff
- Light travel may be required as needed
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years experience in instructional design with exposure to sales
training development, management training development, eLearning and
experience leading others.
- College (4 year) degree required.
- Experience designing and developing web-based eLearning and virtual
training solutions.
- Demonstrated understanding of Agency Distribution's field force and
ability to work with field management and field producers.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment; task and target date
oriented with emphasis on speed to market.
- Ability to identify and determine instructional design strategies
including the use of technology.
- Knowledge of instructional design fundamentals especially adult
learning and accelerated learning techniques.
- Demonstrated strong verbal, written, interpersonal communication skills
as well as effective presentation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects using standard project management
concepts and tools.
- Ability to manage expectations and business relationships with staff,
superiors, vendors, business partners, and others.
- Ability to coordinate the work of others; demonstrated leadership
skills.
- Ability to 'think out of the box' - as a creative, innovative,
designer/training developer.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, Lectora or other eLearning
authoring tools, Lotus Sametime or another virtual delivery medium.
- Experience in the insurance or financial services industry preferred.
- Position is located in Newark, NJ.
The Prudential Insurance Company of America and its affiliates, Newark,
New Jersey are Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employers and are
committed to diversity in our workforce.
Prudential is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes
from search firms for this employment opportunity unless contracted with
Staffing. Agencies must work with Staffing as the primary point of
contact and follow the Prudential application process to be considered
for business. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by
search firms to any employee at Prudential via-email, the Internet or
directly to hiring managers at Prudential in any form without a valid
written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the
sole property of Prudential, and no fee will be paid in the event the
candidate is hired by Prudential as a result of the referral or through
other means. Note: Any search agreement entered into with Prudential
before January 2004 is null and void. Search firms are essential to the
recruitment and staffing efforts at Prudential and we value the
partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. For this reason,
Prudential has established and regularly maintains a preferred vendor
list. Please note that even preferred vendors need to have a written
search agreement signed by the Director, Recruiting Programs, Staffing
at Prudential in place for the specific position in order for a fee to
be paid for any candidate referrals.
To apply for this position, please copy and paste the following link
into your browser address bar:
http://prudential.contacthr.com/13236121
or submit your resume and salary requirements through our homepage at
https://jobs.prudential.com/apply_online_1.asp?jobid=1562762
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