Onboarding & Learning SME Job Listing at SPA in Norfolk, VA (Job ID 2025-19768)

Description

Qualifications

Required:

• Certification (including a Bachelor's degree or other advanced professional qualification) in Organizational Development, instructional design and education, or a related field
• Minimum 3 years in the last 6 in the field of organizational development and learning, or corporate skills development in complex knowledge-based organizations
• NATO Secret clearance or national equivalent
• Experience shaping experimental learning and skills development for multinational audiences, especially for high and low power-distance audiences
• Experience in shaping staff onboarding and communication of business information

The candidate will provide developmental support to define “personas” to demonstrate understanding of the ACT target audience(s) and to test pathways, collect and consolidate business information requirements for staff, shape to levels of experience and cultural awareness, and develop learning pathways/maturity models that consider staff competencies (knowledge, skills, and experience) for cross-organizational culture, NATO-specific topics, and in defined functional areas. The candidate will also collaborate with ACT culture and functional communities to design specific research functional or skills standards where functions have reasonable civilian or military equivalents with accessible information. Run workshops to elicit, consolidate, and/or validate functional requirements, and consolidate job descriptions to identify stated functional levels. Communicate pathways via maturity models and/or competency roadmaps using standard MS Office tools and/or central intranet resources, define and support onboarding activities for new staff up to 12 months from arrival to embed organizational culture, and develop learning games, role-play, and other experiential learning events. Collect, consolidate, and act on feedback received across competency development activities, and perform additional tasks as required by the COTR related to culture assessment and formation or staff training development.