Principle / Senior Trainer

Job no: 492577

Work type: Permanent (Full-time)

Location: Margaret Drive

Categories: Corporate Services

Job Purpose

Rainbow Centre envisions a world where persons with disabilities are empowered and thriving in inclusive communities.

Rainbow Centre Training and Consultancy plays a pivotal role in advancing our mission through developing capabilities of persons with disabilities, caregivers, sector professionals and partners.

The Senior Trainer, as a subject matter expert in a specific field, works with internal and external stakeholders to analyse learning needs in order to develop and deliver high quality and impactful competency-based learning programmes to meet capability development needs of different target audiences.

The role works in multiple different environments, including different learning venues and client sites, and regularly interacts with digital systems.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Learning Needs Analysis and Interventions

• Identify learning needs of target audience, including conducting research and investigation in order to complete the needs identification.
• Propose learning interventions to stakeholders for adoption to address needs
• Implement learning interventions where required and appropriate to facilitate the acquisition of competencies
• Review learning needs after implementation of interventions to support continuous learning and development

Design learning solutions and interventions

• Engage stakeholders to set overall learning and performance objectives
• Determine appropriate learning delivery mode to facilitate achievement of learning objectives
• Conduct feasibility and return on investment analyses to inform learning solution and intervention design
• Propose learning solutions and interventions to drive performance improvement and behaviour change
• Identify potential learning technologies and systems to support implementation of learning solutions and interventions
• Develop methods and materials to assess learner progress and competence
• Define success metrics and performance measures based on analysis of client's objectives and learning solution and intervention specifications

Drive implementation of learning solutions and interventions

• Develop implementation and communication plans for proposed learning solutions and interventions
• Engage stakeholders to gain buy-in ahead of implementation of learning solutions and interventions
• Conduct learning solution and intervention trials in line with implementation plan
• Incorporate feedback and outcomes of learning solution and intervention trials
• Facilitate performance improvement and behaviour change through the implementation of learning solutions and interventions
• Implement strategies to manage learner development during the implementation of learning solutions and interventions
• Manage issues which arise during the implementation of learning solutions and interventions
• Implement learner and performance assessment methods and materials during the implementation of learning solutions and interventions

Evaluate curriculum effectiveness

• Conduct feedback reviews with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate curriculum effectiveness
• Evaluate curriculum take-up rates, attendance, completion rates and assessment data
• Synthesise analyses of learner assessment trends
• Oversee implementation of curriculum review processes to assess compliance with organisation's quality assurance policies
• Evaluate reported curriculum improvement areas against objectives and performance standards
• Recommend and prioritise curriculum improvement areas based on analyses of objectives and performance standards

Job Holder Requirements

• A tertiary qualification in relevant field
• ACTA/ACLP certified
• DACE/DDDLP is advantageous but not mandatory
• Proven experience of design and delivery of high quality, evidence based training interventions and learning development activities, both face to face and digital
• Proven experience in developing competency-based learning programmes/interventions in the area of disability/special needs education.
• Demonstrable experience of consultancy work with a range of stakeholders
• Demonstrated substantial experience (more than 5 years) in working with persons with disabilities and disability sector professionals (e.g. SPED educators, allied professionals)