Talent Development Director

Company: FirstBank
Location: Dubuque
Posted on: January 8, 2021

Job Description:

FirstBank Lubbock Bancshares began with the vision of one man, Barry Orr, and a promise. Barry promised his wife and friends that he would start a bank that would become profitable through relationships, hard work and determination. "It is our goal to be the BEST community bank in the Lubbock area," states Barry Orr, Chairman & CEO. "We knew we could help build a better Lubbock by serving the needs of customers our way."The Talent Development Director will lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of talent development and enhancement programs. This role will partner with the organization's leadership team and key stakeholders to ensure the development and advancement of an empowered, results-driven workplace culture. Additionally, this role will ensure that future programs are in place to support our growing organization and future talent needs. Further, the Talent Development Director will implement strategies focused on job training, manager development, leadership development, and high-potential development as well as employee engagement, performance management practices, onboarding and the heightening the employee value proposition, and employee experience. Overall, this role will offer timely, forward-thinking counsel on all issues related to the employee engagement and organizational development needs and workplace culture in support of its mission.PRIMARY & ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:1. Partners with business line leaders, bank presidents and HR Business Partners to drive talent development strategies within the businesses.2. Deploys exceptional leadership, management and employee job development programs and initiatives that supports succession planning and career pathing efforts.3. Drives improvement in employee engagement by assessing survey results, developing improvement strategies and deploying training and coaching to support those strategies.4. Supports all performance management and talent management efforts with training and development support.5. Enhances organizational performance through thought leadership by linking strategy to structure, building transformational change approaches and facilitating solutions to complex organizational issues.6. Provides leadership, support, and guidance to team members; reinforcing the importance of operational excellence, service mentality, and employee/management trust.7. Builds/maintains effective collaborative relationships with management staff and senior leaders8. Collaborates with peers across the organization to develop and integrate organizational development, performance management, professional development, and employee engagement.9. Creates an environment of continuous improvement where challenging the status quo is not only a regular activity but an expectation.10. Identifies and enhances the employee value proposition and employment brand that supports organizational success in alignment with talent acquisition and retention strategies.11. Constantly strives to achieve better results and greater efficiencies12. Influences organizational talent focused decision-making with the use of relevant, value-added metrics and analyzes and reports on same in a manner that aligns with and supports the organization's strategic and short- and long-term business objectives.13. Advances existing talent development strategies and initiatives in a manner that ensures and tracks the quality of assessment, dialogue and follow-up across all levels of the organization.14. Guides and monitors the progress of high potential employees and provides varied learning solutions to strengthen their development.15. Fosters a culture of accountability, trust, recognition and results among staff at all levels consistent with the short and long-term objectives of the organization.16. Manages all aspects of development lifecycle, to include supervision of ongoing learning programs, development of future learning programs, and organizational development consultation for key stakeholders, marketing and communications of programs, manage budgets and resources, reporting, measurement and maintenance of talent development records.17. Mentors, leads and coaches staff to assure that the skill set of the team is aligned to the talent development needs of the business18. Works with outside vendors and builds strong relationships with executive coaches and other partners19. Creates a culture of organizational recognition through the development and deployment of programs that recognize top performance and effort.20. Ensures team maintains a high degree of execution consistency; knowledge retention and effectiveness measured and tracked through carefully designed metrics21. Continuously innovates and experiments in the rapidly changing fields of adult learning science and technology, to keep pushing the effectiveness of our talent development interventions22. Oversees the implementation, maintenance, and effectiveness of the organization Learning Management System. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:1. Directly supervises the Organizational Development and Engagement team.2. Works with Heartland Financial's recruitment team to hire the most qualified and talented individuals to fill open positions.3. Provides information and on-going feedback to department staff regarding expectations and performance.4. Addresses and resolves all performance concerns and issues in a timely manner.5. Works with department staff on individual professional development.6. Prepares and conducts annual performance reviews. Completes and submits all forms associated with the review process to the department according to the review process deadlineREQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:1. Bachelor's degree is required2. A minimum of 10 years' experience in organizational development and employee engagement3. Previous financial services experience preferred4. Proven experience translating business plans into learning and development strategies5. Proven analytical skills, experience with engagement survey data, data analysis and dashboards6. Demonstrated ability to lead strategically, drive performance, build alignment, influence and execute7. Exceptional interpersonal and influence skills across the organization through knowledge and expertise8. Capability of working autonomously or collaboratively as part of a team with a 'sleeves rolled up' approach and in a collaborative manner9. Demonstrated expertise in methods and tools for successful identification, design, development, implementation and measurement of learning solutions including eLearning, mobile learning, classroom facilitation (face-to-face and virtual), and gamification strategies.10. Ability to work in a challenging matrix environment with multiple competing deadlines11. Ability to project manage and drive and manage change that results in positive impact12. A leadership style characterized by straightforwardness, approachability, team orientation and collaboration13. Experience in hiring, mentoring and leading a team of learning and development professionals14. Experience and proficiency with LMS Systems and other software.OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATION:1. ATD Certification preferredScheduled Weekly Hours:40Time Type:Full time

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