Assistant Director, Curriculum, Program, and Delivery Management

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic advisor to SME leaders and stakeholders, consulting on performance, and learning and development design and needs

• Drive annual business planning, on behalf of advisor development experience, including development and measurement of OKRs and KPIs.

• Develop, monitor, and adjust multi-year delivery and innovative roadmap

• Establish a measurement strategy, anchored to enterprise priorities and business objectives

• Gather NM data and NM/External insights to inform approach and demonstrate value

• Establish and monitor standards, frameworks, and methodologies to ensure curriculum programs maintain high quality, consistency and alignment with NMU vision

• Integrate and embed AI-driven solutions in both curriculum delivery and management

• Stay current, source and evaluate vendor relationships to inform buy/build/rent strategy (industry and discipline), and ongoing management

• Contribute curriculum architecture and standards to governance processes and systems

• Monitor and evaluate emerging and modernized innovations in curriculum design, learning experiences, and deliver models that improve learner experience

• Apply adult and modern learner theory and principles to learner experience architecture and design

• Deliver and lead principles for curriculum co-creation and performance consulting, enabling team to consult effectively with business and field partners

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of learning, curriculum, and performance consulting professionals

• Assess team capabilities and skill gaps; create targeted development plans to build future-ready skills

• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation (AI), accountability, and psychological safety

Qualifications

• Degree/background/certifications in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, Education, Business, AI in learning, workflow learning

• Experience in learning strategy, performance consulting

• Experience managing large contract vendors, including sourcing, negotiating, and ongoing relationship management

• 10+ years of experience in learning strategy, curriculum design, and/or performance consulting

• Creating operating models, in which the team can deliver value and operate

• Experience leading teams of learning, curriculum, or performance consulting professionals

• Experience partnering with senior leaders and SMEs to design enterprise learning solutions

• Demonstrated success leading/delivering multi-year learning roadmaps and enterprise-level initiatives

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