Job Id: 63321
Position: Program Monitor/Auditor
Department: TN TDA
Location: 440 Hogan Road Nashville Tennessee
Duration: 11 Months
Mode of Work: OnSite(Hybrid)
- The Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestrys (TDF) mission is to protect conserve and enhance Tennessees forests. The agency achieves this mission through 300 highly skilled natural resource professionals. The agencys services are organized into six business units: Fire Management Forest Health and Sustainability State Forests Forest Data and Analysis Reforestation and Outreach and Communication. In order to deliver these services TDF employees require significant amounts of varied training and education. TDF is seeking a Training Officer to develop coordinate and execute comprehensive training curriculums that encompass the needs of each of the business units. The Training Officer will collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts to plan and deliver the training curriculum.
Qualifications:
- Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelors degree and experience equivalent to two years of fulltime professional work in one or a combination of the following: academic teaching; educational administration; development of instructional materials for academic programs; workforce development; or training.
- Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional graduate course work in one or a combination of the following may be substituted for the required experience on a yearforyear basis to a maximum of two years: (1) Human Resources Management; (2) Industrial/Organizational Psychology; or (3) any field related to the design or evaluation of curriculum and related instructional processes including but not limited to Curriculum and Instruction or Educational/Instructional Media Design Educational Evaluation Research and Statistics. (e.g. 36 graduate quarter hours may be substituted for one year of required experience).
- Substitution of Experience for Education: Any teaching or training experience or any remaining professional experience may be substituted for the required education on a yearforyear basis to a maximum of four years.
- OR
- One year of professional experience in delivering workforce training with the State of Tennessee.
Job Overview
- Facilitates agency specific training through various delivery methods to enhance employee and/or vendor development in compliance with departmental state and federal laws rules regulations guidelines processes and procedures.
- Delivers agency specific training to internal customers to facilitate learning and development.
- Develops or modifies agency specific training materials based on defined objectives participant needs and delivery method for employee learning and development.
- Applies principles of adult learning to the development and delivery of training to create an optimal learning environment.
- Conducts training needs analyses and confers with agency staff and subject matter experts to determine training needs.
- Develops surveys tests and other tools for evaluating courses and participants learning to ensure training needs are being met.
- Participates in course specific train the trainer requisite programs as necessary for established curriculum delivery in compliance with departmental state and federal laws rules regulations guidelines processes and procedures.
Scheduling Work and Activities:
- Coordinates activities for events such as conferences seminars symposiums trainings workshops or related events to enhance employee learning and development.
- Organizes event schedules and reserves sites equipment and other needed accommodations to coordinate training.
- Guiding Directing and Motivating Others:
- Provides guidance to staff about assigned work to guarantee required timeliness standards are met.
- Provides information on organizational culture policies and procedures workflow and chain of command task prioritization proper documentation and use of systems to effectively and efficiently perform assigned tasks.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems:
- Provides information to management to assist in problem solving and finding solutions to ensure agency efficiency.
- Recommends the future use of agency specific contract vendors to management to ensure internal and external customers needs are being met.
- Organizing Planning and Prioritizing Work:
- Identifies work priorities to ensure the most important work is completed first based on work experience supervisor guidance and departmental state and federal laws rules regulations and guidelines.
Performing Administrative Activities:
- Maintains reports files and logs as required to ensure compliance with departmental state and federal laws rules regulations and best practices.
- Responds to emails phone calls and other correspondence in a timely cordial manner to provide great customer service.
- Selling or Influencing Others:
- Promotes positive ideas surrounding new training and policy initiatives to obtain staff buyin.
Developing and Building Teams:
- Identifies opportunities to improve team development and professional growth.