Specialist, workforce development

Training and staff development professionals plan, develop, implement and evaluate development and training programmes to enable management and staff to acquire the skills and develop the competencies required by an organisation to achieve its objectives.

• identifying the training needs and requirements of individuals and organisations;
• setting human resource development objectives and evaluating training outcomes;
• preparing and developing training materials and aids such as manuals, visual aids, online presentations, demonstrations and related supporting documentation;
• designing, coordinating, planning and conducting training and development programmes in individual or group form, workshops, meetings, demonstrations and conferences;
• liaising with external training providers to arrange specific training and development programmes;
• promoting external and internal training and development and evaluating these activities;
• monitoring and carrying out ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of external and internal training, and reviewing and improving training objectives, methods and courses;
• collecting, researching and studying background material to gain an understanding of different fields and systems.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Training organiser
• Specialist, workforce development
• Specialist, training and development