Summary of Job Responsibilities:
The primary role of the Training Manager will be to develop, implement, and manage our training programs, ensuring our employees acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in their roles. This critical role is integral to enhancing our team's performance, fostering professional growth, and ultimately contributing to our company's sustained success. As a Training Manager, you will be responsible for designing and delivering comprehensive training initiatives for our internal teams and in collaboration with external partners when necessary. This includes monitoring their effectiveness and continuously refining our training strategies to align with our evolving organizational objectives and leverage insights from internal and external expertise.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee training compliance to ensure all Clayton staff meet program quality expectations.
- Train, coach, and mentor Clayton staff to meet program quality expectations.
- Assist in planning and organizing overall training events such as conferences, seminars, and workshops.
- Works to increase program offerings and partnerships.
- In collaboration with the Senior Program Manager of Camp & Enrichment, plan, organize, promote, and lead summer camp training.
- In collaboration with the Enrichment Manager, plan training for curriculum implementation for all sites.
- Help develop and manage the training budget alongside the Associate Director of Programs.
- Identify training needs through assessments, feedback, and performance reviews.
- Create engaging and relevant training content that aligns with Clayton’s objectives.
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to enhance training content continually.
- Ensure training programs comply with relevant regulations and industry standards.
- Adapt training delivery to different learning styles and preferences.
- Ensure effective communication and engagement during training sessions.
- Implement methods to assess the effectiveness of training programs.
- Collect feedback from participants and stakeholders to make continuous improvements.
- Identify opportunities for ongoing learning and professional growth.
- Works alongside the Operations Program Coordinator to ensure accurate records of training activities, participant progress, evaluations, and staff files.
- Organize agency-wide special events as assigned.
- All other duties as assigned.
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT:
- Actively engage in professional and personal development
- Conduct oneself in a professional, ethical manner, in accordance with generally accepted community standards and organization’s employee policies
- Ability to complete childcare background check process and preservice requirements
- This position requires the ability to present yourself in a professional manner, communicate, and listen to others.
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:
- Self-Awareness: Ability to fully understand the impact emotions have on performance, assessment of strengths and weaknesses, relationships, and others. Demonstrates self-confidence, initiative, motivation, optimism and flexibility.
- Self-Management: Ability to manage behaviors, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious and productive way. Models the ability to implement self-control in assessing frustrations and failures and models resilience and courage. Understands personal responsibility in different aspects of life and work, and what is needed to fulfill that responsibility.
- Social Awareness: Ability to understand and learn about the diverse perspective of others. Includes listening, honoring others views, assessing impact of words, and the desire to serve others in effort to meet their needs appropriately and professionally.
- Relationship Skills: Ability to build relationships which model caring, concern and healthy conflict. Demonstrates positive methods of collaboration and conflict resolution. Ability to positively lead and inspire others and integrate such models personally. Demonstrates ability to support positive work culture, which encourages results from others.
- Responsible Decision Making: Ability to make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on ethical standards, safety concerns, and social norms; the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions; and a consideration of the well-being of oneself and others.
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS:
- Requires daily standing, sitting, bending and stooping
- Requires normal range of hearing and vision
- Requires the ability to lift up to 40 pounds
- Requires the ability to physically move about the camp space and fieldtrip venues
- Requires the ability to read text and information and comprehend instructions and manuals
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Ability to work flexible schedules when necessary, and travel to locations on a daily and weekly basis.
- Complete 30+ hours of paid training/professional development, occasionally out of the area
- Available to work Saturdays and/or evenings
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS:
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- No or very limited exposure to physical risk
- Risk of exposure to childhood diseases
- Attendance at fieldtrips and waterparks with various environmental conditions, heat and weather
This position description does not list all the duties of the job. Incumbent may be asked to perform other functions and duties. Incumbent will be evaluated in part based upon performance of the responsibilities in this job description. Executive Management has the right to revise this job description at any time. The job description is not a contract for employment. Incumbent or employer may terminate the employment relationship at any time for any reason.
