Position title: Senior Advisor, Health, Safety and Security Learning and Development
Location: Baltimore, MD, United States | (Remote)
Responsibilities:
Job Responsibilities
Within the Health, Safety and Security Unit, serves as thought leader on and is responsible for the development and maintenance of innovative and agile solutions and resources to support the learning journeys of CRS staff, with a specific focus on technology enhanced delivery that improves training coverage and increases staff capacity in the areas of Health, Safety, Security and Risk Management and response. Collaboratively develop an effective global HSS learning and development strategy that reflects CRS’ strategic direction, operational contexts, and international best practices.
Develop and integrate an agile Monitoring Evaluation and Learning methodology, in coordination with the CRS Knowledge, Management and Learning (KML) unit.
Maintain and improve the process of incident analysis and utilize the identified trends and lessons learned as priority areas when updating HSS learning and development content.
Through cross-departmental engagement and relationship development, identify potential training needs from Country Programs, regions or other CRS departments and define solutions to meet cross-departmental training needs and/or establish new partnerships to enhance learning opportunities.
Foster and grow external relationships with key strategic partners and vendors to ensure access to global training facilities, equipment requirements, support capacities, and new learning approaches which can enhance CRS’ HSS learning and development approach.
Develop and maintain a program for talent identification, growth, and retention of HSS trainers as they progress along their respective qualification pathways and ensure annual proficiency of all trainers is maintained, documented, and utilized for subsequent Fiscal Year planning – in coordination with other key departments to ensure an agency wide approach. In locations where appropriate, promote to local Partner organizations the ability to join learning and development initiatives, thus developing long-term local learning capacities.
Create talent growth pathways, provide coaching opportunities and access to professional development opportunities to support staff growth in HSS and in other areas of risk prevention and management.
In coordination with other key stakeholders, assist in strengthening and implementing regional and organizational level incident and crisis management exercises and training, to improve the readiness of related management teams and increase the ability of CRS to manage and respond to critical incidents and enterprise level crisis events.
Key Working Relationships
Internal: HSS Unit, KML team, CRSLearns team in Global People Resources, IT teams and information security/data protection team in Global Knowledge and Information Management (GKIM), other global departments such as Marketing & Communication, Program Quality (including Partner Capacity Strengthening Unit), Internal Audit, Ethics Unit, General Counsel and Humanitarian Response Department.
External:International and local partners, donors, relevant embassy training staff, contracted learning service providers, NGO learning and development networks, and HSS training staff from other NGOs and UN Agencies.
Supervision
None
Language Required
Fluency in English required; Fluency in another language such as French, Spanish or Arabic preferred.
Travel
Approximately 10-15% of the time, primarily to/within the various CRS regions, and sometimes in remote areas with minimal amenities available.
Qualifications:
Qualifications
MA or EdD in relevant field or equivalent relevant work experience
10 years of Adult Education curriculum development or relevant work experience in education/training/learning & development/international development
Demonstrated expertise designing and delivering training using the principles of adult learning
Demonstrated experience in delivering technology enhanced solutions, developing organizational level strategy and implementing at a global scale.
Excellent oral and written (English) communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
5 years of relevant operational experience in the field of professional health, safety and/or security
Professional instructor license or certification
Experience in working with professional training actors
Experience in overseeing build out of online L&D activities
Language skills in Spanish, French or Arabic preferred
Prior experience in international development/NGO sector desirable
Demonstrable experience in integrating new knowledge transmission styles into L&D portfolio
Technical/Professional Skills
Strong cross-cultural skills
Ability to train and convey information to a variety of personnel on various skill levels
Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
Excellent writing skills and communication skills
Diplomatic, able to manage conflict and move groups toward consensus
Good judgment and sound decision-making skills
Excellent organization and planning skills, detail-oriented, ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
Strong initiative and self-motivated, with a commitment to humanitarian principles
Able to work without close supervision, experience with remote management
Proficiency in MS Office and L&D software
CRS is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Selection and hiring decisions are made without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, veteran status or any other protected area.
