Learning and Development Specialist

Jane Street Jane Street · Quant · New York, NY · Human Resources

Seeking a Learning and Development Specialist to design and facilitate learning experiences, create and maintain content, and collaborate with HR partners and subject-matter experts. Responsibilities include project management, needs analysis, content development across various modalities, and evaluating feedback for improvement.

What you'd actually do

  1. create and maintain a broad set of content—including developing new objectives and assessments, and rewriting and reshaping existing content.
  2. analyze, design, develop, implement, evaluate, and maintain engaging and effective learning experiences for your colleagues.
  3. Managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment while delivering high-quality work on time
  4. Performing the research and needs analysis required in the development of content; and mapping course content and learning activities to the appropriate learning objectives
  5. Using a content-development framework to create engaging and effective learning content (e.g., courses, presentations, videos, one-pagers, hands-on activities, assignments)

Skills

Required

  • instructional design
  • education
  • learning theories
  • instructional-design models
  • adult-learning best practices
  • content development
  • project management
  • writing
  • editing
  • proofreading
  • communication
  • facilitation

Nice to have

  • teaching background
  • training background
  • passion for creating impact through education
  • collaborative mindset
  • develop relationships with technical and non-technical people

What the JD emphasized

  • 7-10 years of experience developing, implementing, and improving online and in-person learning experiences
  • excellent knowledge of learning theories and instructional-design models
  • Experienced with implementing adult-learning best practices and leading end-to-end instructional design projects
  • Excellent verbal and written communicator
  • strong project management skills