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Overview

Ready to elevate your career? Join us as the Manager of Workforce Readiness Solutions (WRS) and take charge of delivering exceptional services with quality and timeliness! In this dynamic role, you'll lead full-service teams such as but not limited to performance consulting, instructional design, content development, multimedia development, technical writing, management of related technologies, training facilitation and evaluation and measurement. Oversee complex projects, collaborating closely with the Director on budgeting, program management, and strategic goal planning.

You'll work alongside Product and Service leaders to identify business needs and tackle challenges, while managing recruitment, onboarding, performance planning, and coaching to foster a culture of growth.

Bring your expertise in healthcare technology operations, our product suite, and human performance engineering, including instructional design and training facilitation.

This is your chance to make a significant impact and drive the success of our Workforce Readiness Solutions. Join us and be a part of something exciting!

Responsibilities

• Acts as a consultant to our customers

• Manages the viability of the WRS Portfolio to assure on-demand availability of comprehensive, current and compliant assets

• Creates approaches for solution development and problem-solving that best balance cost, resources, time, quality and desired outcomes

• Achieves relief and revenue goals and provides input to areas for revenue enhancement, cost reduction or efficiencies in financial management to the manager

• Manages customer expectations, confirms outcomes and measures in writing and achieves customer satisfaction targets

• Facilitates communication and collaboration among internal departments, customers and vendors to achieve committed results

• Provides input to the development and maintenance of the annual departmental business plan (financials, growth objectives, key projects, resources demand forecast, associate capability development), including implementation strategies to operationalize programs, assets and services for WRS

• Manages the performance of the workforce (associates and contractors) to achieve project metrics and outcomes

• Provides coaching and/or mentoring, and identifying training requirements for associates

• Conducts performance development activities, including performance reviews, goals, training and development, coaching and continuous feedback

• Reports status on all projects and initiatives to the Director and as required for organizational and/or customer communications

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to work consultatively with all organizational levels

• Expertise in usability and adoptability of products

• Knowledge and experience with systems development methodologies

• Knowledge of quality assurance practices

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for all levels of the organization, customer and vendor organizations

• Ability to provide input to the development and execution of the departmental annual plan

• Ability to manage planned programs and projects within allocated budgets and schedules

• Ability to plan, organize, assign and report on work to meet commitments

• Ability to foster both internal and external customer relationships at all levels

• Ability to handle self professionally and with decorum

• Ability to lead complex projects in assigned areas

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and keep initiatives on track to achieve outcomes

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills

• Strong consulting, facilitation and coaching and mentoring skills

Technical Tools Proficiency:

• Articulate

• Captivate

• Camtasia

• FrameMaker

• Learning Management Systems

• Advanced Microsoft Word and Excel

Required Expereince:

• 2 years of management experience, focused on managing diverse human performance engineering (HPE) functions (Experience can be in traditional management role, such as resource management or in large learning program management, such as Organizational Change Management)

• 3 years of experience in various HPE roles (i.e. performance consulting, instructional design, technical writing, organizational change management)

Preferred Expereince:

• 2 years of previous healthcare experience

Required Training and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related a field or equivalent work experience

Preferred Certifications:

• PMP Certification

• CPLP Certification

Benefits Overview

At NASCO, we trust our workforce to be fully remote, working from their home . This benefit offers significant, personalized outcomes for each associate including work/life balance, savings on commuting, work clothing, and increased time to spend on personal activities.

Our full benefit package is designed to support the physical, mental, and financial health of our associates. We offer:

Physical and Mental Health Benefits

• Choice of Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans

• Telehealthcare – for Medical and Behavioral visits

• Generous PTO with buy/sell options

• 9 Company holidays, a floating day off, and a day off for volunteering

• Employee Assistance Program

• Wellness program - earn insurance discounts or credit towards health-related items

Financial Health Benefits

• 401K Plan with employer matching contributions

• Company-funded spending/reimbursement accounts to help with out-of-pocket medical expenses

• Bonus and Recognition programs

• Tuition Assistance

• Consultation with financial planner

• Basic Life & AD&D Insurance, Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance provided, and Supplemental Term Life Insurance is available

• Group Discount programs -mobile, technology services, etc., to help you save money

Other Benefits

• E-Learning – Comprehensive and current library of e-learning and performance support assets, available on demand and at no cost

NASCO is an Equal Opportunity Employer/veterans/disability/race/color/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/national origin. Must have legal authority to work in the US

We will not accept applicants that use AI when answering the screening questions. Applicants who use AI to answer any questions or to complete their application will not be considered for employment

Location US-Home Office/ Remote

# Positions 1

Category Training - All Openings

Travel Requirements 20-40%