Senior Talent Specialist

About the role

The Senior Talent Specialist will contribute to the overall success of our learning and development initiatives in both strategic and supportive ways. The role requires collaboration with all levels — from individual contributors to top leadership — to ensure learning solutions are aligned, effective, and designed to support employee performance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with subject matter experts, business partners, and stakeholders to identify training needs, performance gaps, and learning solutions.
• Assess business situations and develop goals, learning objectives, and curriculum strategies to support improved business results and employee performance.
• Design and develop effective learning programs using instructional design and adult learning principles.
• Create engaging content that clearly communicates concepts, processes, expectations, and skills in an impactful and memorable way.
• Evaluate existing educational offerings and recommend improvements to strengthen learner experience, business alignment, and effectiveness.
• Partner with event owners and stakeholders to develop instructor-led, virtual, and other learning opportunities in the most effective modality for the audience and learning need.
• Evaluate program effectiveness, engagement, and alignment through a variety of assessment methods, measurements, observations, and feedback channels.
• Educate and support staff, facilitators, or stakeholders on new curriculum developments, learning resources, and best practices.
• Ensure learning materials are designed to support consistency, scalability, and practical application across the organization.
• Recommend improvements to curriculum structure, learning flow, participant engagement, and post-training reinforcement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education, instructional design, curriculum development, project management, organizational development, educational technology, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience editing, writing, designing, and developing instructional materials.
• At least 5 years of experience in courseware, curriculum, training, or technical documentation development and design.
• Experience managing course or curriculum development projects from end to end.
• Ability to manage the full learning lifecycle, including needs analysis, design, development, delivery support, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of instructional design, adult learning principles, and curriculum development practices.
• Ability to assess business needs and translate them into effective learning goals, objectives, strategies, and deliverables.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to plan, prioritize, schedule, and manage projects with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and consult effectively with senior leaders, business partners, internal customers, subject matter experts, and colleagues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to organize complex information into clear, concise, and engaging learning content.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent organizational abilities with strong attention to detail.
• Exhibits a high level of emotional intelligence, including the ability to give and receive specific, constructive feedback.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience working with learning development technologies such as Adobe, Articulate Storyline, Rise, Camtasia, Snagit, or similar tools.
• Technically inclined and able to adapt to new technologies with ease.
• Skilled in designing for a variety of formats and mediums, including instructor-led training, virtual learning, SCORM-compliant eLearning, video, web, and print-based materials.
• Willing to travel up to 10%.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Experience with the construction industry.
• Experience with Articulate 360 or equivalent authoring software.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, including Illustrator, Photoshop, or InDesign.
• Local to the Kansas City Metro Area.
• Bilingual Spanish fluency.