Job Opportunities

Posted 4/4/16

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Position Summary

We are seeking a Learning Content Partnerships Manager to lead the development of content partnerships, both nationally and locally, that will be leveraged to create winning learning experiences for tens of thousands of home care workers. We want to create an unprecedented web of partnerships with organizations that have deep expertise in competency areas of importance to home care workers and the seniors and people with disabilities who they support. Leveraging their content and our evidenced based learning designs we can make big impact for care both in Washington State and nationally. If you love building partnerships and want to make a difference in the lives of home care workers and the seniors and people with disabilities they support, we want to hear from you!

You will:

· Build local, state, and national partnerships with organizations that have content that can be leveraged to create winning learning experiences. Content may include text, images, video, and/or subject matter experts.

· Engage with learning experience team to identify content needs to focus partner search.

· Conduct partner outreach.

· Create and negotiate partnership agreements.

· Responsible for success metrics including number of partnerships closed, success of partnership in producing high value content, and partner engagement.

· Continue to nurture and cultivate partnerships once established.

· Design protocol and standards for conducting market research and outreach to prospects.

· Document partnership activity and content acquired in database for use by learning experience team.

· Work with learning experience team to create system for storing acquired content and protocol for use.

· Support learning experience team members as they engage with content partners.

You are:

· At least 5 years’ experience in partnership development, supply side acquisition, sales, or related. Healthcare, long-term care, and/or learning industry exposure are a plus.

· Have an eye for high value partnerships with a track record of cultivating and closing partnership deals.

· Strong negotiation skill.

· Solid market research skill to identify potential content partners.

· Experience with content or supply side partner acquisition is a plus.

· Strong attention to detail with excellent follow-through.

· Excellent communication skills including 1:1 and 1: many.

· Strong connection to improving home care jobs to benefit workers, consumers, and society.

The SEIU 775 Benefits Group is an equal opportunity employer and offers an exceptional

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Organizational Development & Training Administrator

Qualis Health is an award-winning national leader in improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. We provide population health management services—healthcare quality consulting, health information technology support and care management services—to public and private healthcare organizations across the U.S.

The drive to innovate runs throughout Qualis Health. We’re results-focused, leading to an environment that’s high-achieving while also collaborative and supportive. We offer opportunities for you to learn and grow while making a real difference for underserved populations and others as they navigate America’s complex healthcare system.

What would I do?

Reporting to our Vice President, Human Resources, you’d contribute to the analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of programs that support skill, workforce, leadership and professional development across the organization. Typical accountabilities include:

§ Identify resources and develops programs and processes to support a variety of organizational programs, including workforce planning and development, new employee orientation, compliance, quality and process improvement, and credentialing.

§ Collaborate with leadership to identify learning opportunities to close knowledge or performance gaps, identify associated training objectives, and develop project plans.

§ Track training needs and schedules, ensure course completion, collect participant feedback, and measure results.

§ Research and recommend training resources, including materials, tests, and delivery methods; effectively manage third party vendor relationships.

§ Schedule participants and manage facilities and other logistics.

§ Integrate regulatory requirements into training content, when applicable, to ensure compliance.

§ May deliver course content and assesses effectiveness of corporate training programs based on learning objectives.

NOTE: This work will be performed on a part-time (24 – 32 hour per week) basis, either as a W-2 employee or 1099 independent consultant.

What qualifications do I need?

§ 7+ years of training and development or other relevant work experience.

§ Associate’s degree in a related field.

§ Proficiency with Lean, Six Sigma, or comparable QI methodologies (certification preferred).

§ Proficiency with at least one Learning Management System (LMS).

Preference will be given to candidates with the following:

§ Bachelor’s degree and/or certification in a related field.

§ Background in healthcare that includes credentialing and training administration.

How do I learn more?

Submit your resume in confidence at https://qualishealthcareers.silkroad.com/qualisext/EmploymentListings.html

Qualis Health is an Affirmative Action / Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that embraces and practices diversity, reflecting the communities we serve. We encourage minorities, Protected Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply.

Position Title: Senior Instructional Designer

Client: 78th on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2014 revenue.

As of December 31, 2014, the company had $124.3 billion in consolidated assets, $104.0 billion in consolidated liabilities, and $39.6 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
Client employs more than 50,000 people in approximately 900 offices throughout the world, and we offer a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, accident & health, commercial automobile, general liability, property, surety, workers compensation, group disability, group life, specialty lines, reinsurance, individual life and annuity products.

Work Location: Onsite work - Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA)

Contract  only – W2

Start: September 1^st or so

Duration: TBD

Description

This position works with a training manager to review needs assessment information to determine training goals as well as reviews and updates existing training programs using content provided by subject matter experts. The Instructional Designer uses template oriented e-Learning software applications to update or develop online courses and creates program evaluations and tests based on course objectives.

·         Assists in conducting in-depth job-task analysis and/or needs assessment to identify learning objectives, and to determine training solutions and other performance enhancement solutions (e.g. management reinforcement, rewards, role clarity, job aids, etc.)

·         Consults with managers and reviews needs assessment and/or job-task analysis information to determine focus of training content, and to ensure training is focused on increasing the capability of employees to perform in their job

·         Applies knowledge of instructional design theory to design course content, working with subject matter experts, management, trainers, etc.; at this level, design efforts are targeted on individual modules within larger programs or are standalone products focused on a narrow topic

·         Applies knowledge of adult learning theory to identify appropriate training media and methodologies based on audience learning styles, course content, audience location, point within the learning process, etc.; training methodologies may include group lecture, role play, simulation exercises, self-study, on-the-job training, computer-based training, etc.

·         Researches, selects, and modifies existing training curriculum, content, materials, job aids, etc. to meet learning needs

·         Reviews program evaluations, test results, and participant and manager feedback on training effectiveness to make recommendations for program improvement

·         Creates program evaluations and tools to measure program effectiveness, to assist in determining whether desired learning and performance outcomes are achieved

·         Identifies needs for outside resources, and sources vendors, as appropriate

·         Handles vendor management, to include coordination of resources and ensuring quality of product and service levels delivered

General Qualifications

·         Must have completed formal courses in learning design and adult learning theory, and reflect clear ability to translate that knowledge into developing quality training solutions

·         Strong written and verbal communication skills

·         Solid project management skills

·         Knowledge of common e-Learning software applications required, including creating new modules

Experience / Education

·         Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required, in addition to 3 to 5 years of experience in delivering training or supporting the development of training materials

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Job Title:  Director, CareWorks

Position Summary

We are seeking a seasoned start-up leader to build CareWorks – a learning experience organization that will bring expert training solutions to the fast growing home care marketplace. Powered by lean start-up and design thinking methods, CareWorks will ramp up to fill a critical training gap in the home care workforce nationwide and prevent the coming care crisis. Over the next decade, demand for home care workers will grow to more than 2 million making home care America’s “top job.” Yet, this “top job” is largely characterized by limited or no training leading to high on-the-job injury rates and compromises to quality of care. CareWorks is on a mission to fill this gap with high value, evidence based learning experiences designed for busy home care workers who want to build knowledge and skills to provide safe, quality care with empathy and compassion. Powered by new and experimental learning science and technology solutions, CareWorks will offer solutions that are easy to access, fun, and relevant. This leadership position will drive all aspects of start-up. If you have hands-on start-up experience in long-term care, healthcare, or education and want to make a difference in the lives of home care workers and the older adults and people with disabilities they care for, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

·          Building service design and leading experiments to test design features using lean start-up and service design methods

·          Developing home care industry partnerships

·          Conducting customer insight and competitive research

·          Developing and managing brand strategy including message testing

·          Building technology partnerships

·          Developing and managing pricing strategy

·          Building growth strategy including investment partnerships

·          Managing brand strategy

·          Leading product adaptation

·          Building and managing all aspects of operations capacity including budget, contracts, people

Education & Experience

·          Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business development, innovation, or similar field

·          5 years of progressive, hands-on experience related to this position.

·          Experience in long-term care, healthcare, or education preferred.

·          Demonstrated track record of building new businesses or incubating services within an existing business

·          Strong track record and enthusiasm for deploying new technology to optimize service delivery design

·          Strong financial aptitude and savvy

·          Solid partnership development skills

·          Strong ability to clearly communicate logic verbally and through writing and sketching

·          Sense of humor

·          Strong connection to improving home care jobs to benefit workers, consumers, and society

Application Process

·          Please submit the following to:  info@cobosgroup.com

o    Resume

o    Cover Letter

o    Examples of service design of new products

Clarified Concepts

Soft Skills Contract Trainer -- Writing, Presenting, Communicating

What We Look for in a Trainer:

Clarified Concepts is searching for soft skill trainers with whom to contract. This is a part-time, contract position with good pay for the right candidates.  We are growing, and searching for quality experts whose experience, expertise, and dynamic presentation skills give them the unique ability to educate, motivate, and inspire in an entertaining way.  In particular, we are looking for trainers who have experience teaching any or all of the following:  writing, presenting, communication and/or TTT skills.

General requirements include:

• Bachelor’s degree, minimum
• 3 years of relevant business experience
• 2 years of training/public speaking success
• Strong interpersonal skills, high-energy personality and the flexibility, adaptability and capability to “think on your feet”
• Advanced facilitation/presentation skills and experience with all levels of audience
• Excellent PowerPoint skills; technically savvy
• Participation in background check
• Required equipment: laptop
• Strong verbal communication and writing skills; articulate and persuasive

• Willingness to travel
• Excellent problem solver

A Typical Training Schedule:

We contract with trainers approximately 1-3 months in advance. The number of training dates a trainer can expect to receive in a month varies for a number of reasons, including total number of programs scheduled in a given month, the number of trainers available, season, expertise level, and personal preference.

How to Be Considered for a Contract Training Position:

To be considered for a contract position, please email the following to Karen@clarifiedconcepts.com:

1. A cover letter and résumé that includes education, work history, professional background, and training background clearly delineated.
   
   
2. A list of Clarified Concepts Training topics that you are qualified to present. 
   To view our list of training topics, visit the Clarified Concepts website.
   
   
3. If you qualify based on your résumé, we’ll want to see a demonstration of your presentation/training skills, either live or video.  

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Learning Architect

If you are an expert in learning science with a track record of building winning learning experience designs and want to make a difference in the lives of home care workers and the seniors and people with disabilities they support, we want to hear from you!

We are seeking a Learning Architect to oversee learning experience design for the nation’s leading home care training organization. Part of a team responsible for content development, occupational competency research, and high fidelity assessment, the Learning Architect will build designs that lead to winning learning experiences for home care workers and quality of care. Using expertise in learning science and technology, the Learning Architect will build overarching architecture for all learning experiences and serves as chief designer for individual experiences.

At the SEIU 775 Benefits Group we are working with partners in labor, public, and private sectors to lead the nation in changing this picture by offering workforce development solutions across training, health, and retirement services that together are helping to re-invent home care as a good job and prevent the coming care crisis. The Aspen Institute describes us as “one of the country’s most ambitious sector strategy initiatives.” For example,  we operate the nation’s leading educational institution for home care workers training more than 43,000 home care workers annually across 200 locations and online and in 13 languages

Experience/Qualifications

·         Masters or PhD in learning science or similar and 5 years of highly applied and progressive experience related to position

Application Instructions:

·         Please view the full job description and apply online to:   https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oYqw2fwG&s=Website

   The SEIU 775 Benefits Group is an equal opportunity employer and offers an exceptional

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Care Practice Standards Manager

Do you have a clinical background and experience mapping occupational competencies and want to make a difference in the lives of home care workers and the seniors and people with disability they support, we want to hear from you!  This position will typically enjoy working normal Monday-Friday business hours also!

We are seeking a Care Practice Standards Manager to build a new home care workforce competency platform that will fuel the nation’s leading home care training institution. This platform will be used to inform the development of cutting edge learning experiences and assessments for home care workers. This professional understands that the purpose of training is to build competency and that high value training, therefore, must be built on a strong understanding of the job competencies valued by workers, consumers, and employers. Combining clinical and research knowledge and skill, the Care Practice Standards Manager will bring our capacity in this area to the next level.

Responsibilities

·         Conduct insights research including survey, observational, focus group, interviews, and high performer analysis methods to identify home care workforce competencies

·         Conduct literature reviews to identify evidence base for competencies

·         Conduct federal and state regulatory research to identify scope of practice framework for competencies

·         Build and manage database of competencies to reflect consumer, worker, employer needs, in compliance with existing scope of practice regulations

·         Work with developers to ensure that competencies are uniformly reflected in course tagging, course content, and assessment content

·         Work with psychometrician and web developer team to establish individualized course recommender system for students based on competency gaps

·         Create system for continuously updating established competencies in a fast changing industry

·         Work with the government and community affairs team to advocate scope of practice changes needed to ensure regulations are consistent with current and best practice

Experience/Qualifications

·         Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) or similar with relevant experience including clinical experience (working in home care, rehab, long-term care, community health, or similar) and experience researching occupational competencies.

·         5 years related experience with progressive responsibility

TheSEIU 775 Benefits Group is an equal opportunity employer and offers competitive salaries and exceptional benefits.

Full description here. 

Job description

It's time to join Team Physio!

Physio-Control is a great place to work. We aspire to create a place where hard work, humility, honesty, a sense of service and humor are the talk we walk. We are a very diverse group with an amazing set of experiences from bio-tech and high-tech companies. If that doesn't pique your interest, we’ve got scientists, motorcycle racers, some serious sailors, biking enthusiasts, whiteboard artists, videographers, mountain climbers, parents, triathletes, dog owners, avid runners, skiers and snowboarders. And we're always looking for players for our "awful"-ly fun summer volleyball tournament.

We combine laughter with intensity and focus. We have fantastic office space in the amazing Redmond-Woodinville Valley (yes, free parking), down the street from “Washington Wine Country”. We pay competitively, and offer full benefits to our Team Members. As a privately-held Bain Capital company, we have solid funding and support and an exciting financial future.

Business Excellence Program Manager Wanted!

GENERAL SUMMARY:
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt responsible for the development and deployment of the Physio-Control model for continuous improvement. Required to actively manage and measure performance and ensure successful completion of prioritized projects focused on business process improvements. Teach and mentor team members and future Lean Black Belts and Green Belts in the use of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies in order to achieve process improvements and waste elimination in all business functions.

Full description here.

Location : Bellevue

Job # : 59354

At Puget Sound Energy (PSE) we have a long tradition of

service, and an exciting and innovative future ahead!

Consider PSE for the next step in your career.

Job Summary & Responsibilities

Puget Sound Energy’s Organizational Effectiveness Department is looking for a Talent/Learning Management System

Administrator to join our team. This role provides corporate level oversight for the configuration and on-going operation of the

PSE learning, performance and succession management system. PSE uses the Cornerstone On Demand system. This

position is responsible for:

• PSE’s talent management system technology to support best practice employee training, performance and development

processes

• Design and implementation of strategies to help users get the most business value from the talent/learning management

system

• Building the skills and capabilities of PSE’s internal training super-user community

• Acting as a primary technical liaison between the vendor and PSE IT to resolve system performance issues, and ensure

system stability

• Managing vendor performance and service level agreements, including the evaluation, selection and implementation of new

system functionality and upgrades.

• Creating documentation including program architecture, program and business process flows, and other documents needed

to clarify and preserve system knowledge.

• Being an expert on and advocate for the use of technology in successfully supporting our self-service human resource

model

The ideal candidate will bring a strong understanding of best practices in training administration, performance and succession

management processes combined with talent / learning management system consulting.

This is an excellent opportunity to play an integral role within PSE to help us better serve the environment, our customers and

the communities in which they live. PSE provides an environment where all employees are valued, respected and provided

with the opportunity to achieve maximum performance. We offer a comprehensive pay package that includes competitive

compensation, annual goals-based incentive bonuses, comprehensive cafeteria-style benefits, retirement support options

and an employee assistance and wellness program. Gain the energy to do great things through a career with Puget Sound

Energy!

Qualifications/Skills/Abilities

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems Management, Computer Science; or equivalent combination of education and/or

experience may be substituted.

• 5 years system administration or application support experience including 2 years’ experience with one or more of the

following:

Talent / learning management system administration,

Talent / learning management system product consulting or implementation,

Other major technology system implementation/project management.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiarity with virtual meeting technology, Sharepoint, html and/or web authoring.

• 5 years learning and/or performance management system administration, such as Cornerstone on Demand, SABA, Sum

Total, Success Factors or other major vendor’s systems.

PSE is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to

race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status, or

any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage persons of diverse backgrounds to apply.

Should you have a disability that requires assistance and/or reasonable accommodation with the job application process,

please contact the Human Resources Staffing department at jobs@pse.com or 425-462-3017.

Please apply online at http://www.PSE.com/careers

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