Application Requirement: Please include a cover letter. The Director for Learning and Development plays a strategic role in shaping the professional educational landscape for the staff at the New York Botanical Garden. Their focus is on creating the professional development framework and enhancing employee skills and knowledge for a wide array of botanical garden professions that align with the NYBG’s mission, goals, and objectives. They will provide employees with the tools and resources to sha... more details
Application Requirement: Please include a cover letter.
The Director for Learning and Development plays a strategic role in shaping the professional educational landscape for the staff at the New York Botanical Garden. Their focus is on creating the professional development framework and enhancing employee skills and knowledge for a wide array of botanical garden professions that align with the NYBG’s mission, goals, and objectives. They will provide employees with the tools and resources to share the responsibility for growth and career development. This position reports to the Vice President for Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer and the Associate Vice President
for Employee and Volunteer Engagement and works collaboratively with stakeholders throughout NYBG.
Additionally, this position supports, through actions and conduct, NYBG’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) initiatives and helps to build and maintain an inclusive organization culture throughout the institution. The Director for Learning & Development is a member of the IDEA Senior Advisory Group.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities:
Design, implement, manage, and evaluate scalable programs that facilitate professional development and continuous learning for NYBG employees in all divisions and across alllevels.
Lead planning, implementation, and monitoring of institutionalLearning and Development budgets, including assessing the cost benefit analysis of each relatedprogram.
Ensure the equitable and efficient allocation of the enterprise budgetfor learning anddevelopment.
In collaboration with department leaders, identify training needs and develop comprehensive learning and development strategies aligned with NYBG’s goals.
In collaboration with HR managers, develop and deliver a comprehensive institutional onboarding program and a suite of foundational trainings furthering NYBG’s commitment to belonging and managerialexcellence.
Facilitate high-impact employee success and leadership development programs using unique learning initiatives including, but not limited to,on- the-job, peer-to-peer, outside resource, and formal learning techniques and programs.
Counsel managers and employees on the creation of individualemployee
development plans, goal setting and success criteria, and connecting staff with tools and resources to support their plan.
In collaboration with the IDEA Senior Advisory Group, serve as an advisor to management and employees in the implementation of initiatives, events,and programs to advance IDEAobjectives.
Identify and incorporate effective systems and practices into learning & development to drive diversity andinclusion.
Develop and manage agendas for IDEA-related committees andmeetings.
Develop and maintain a network of external training anddevelopment providers.
Ensure access to the latest learning resources andmethodologies.
Learning Management System for delivery, tracking, and reportingof trainingactivities.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Organizational Development, Human Resources, or Business Administration, or other related area. 3-5 years managerial experience in creating learning & development framework and implementation.
Knowledge of botanical garden, horticulture, botanical science, or other green industry professionaldevelopment.
Ability to evaluate enterprise learning and development from multiple perspectives with the goal of broadly supporting IDEA initiatives and NYBG’smission.
Ability to work in a variety of circumstances, including autonomously, high collaboration with internal and external partners, facilitating meetings, education programs, andworkshops.
Excellent interpersonal skills required with a demonstrated ability to motivatepeople.
Excellent time management, writing, project management,and communicationskills.
Excellent negotiation and change managementskills.
Facilitating mentorship programs and employee resource groups highly desired.
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to, at minimum, sit or stand for desk and group facilitation. This employee must be able to move up to 25 pounds of materials or equipment.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
Baseline Work Schedule:
Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Salary iscommensurate with experiencewithin the range of$88,000 - $110,000.
Benefits:
20 Vacation Days
13 Paid Holidays
12 Sick Days
Health and Dental Insurance Coverage
401K
Pension Plan
If you require an accommodation for any part of the application process, please notify the Human Resources department at [email protected].
If you are interested in applying for a position at the New York Botanical Garden, please go to http://www.nybg.org/employment to submit your application.
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