Senior Training Associate

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish.

The Office of Professional Development and Mandated Training provides the critical link between
employee professional development and ensuring policy proficiency of agency-funded programs.

The Office of Professional Development and Mandated Training is responsible for all aspects of
compliance training, curriculum development, and staff training responsible for providing oversight of
programs administered by DYCD. The programs include but are not limited to, the following: Citywide
Afterschool Programs, Summer Rising, Runaway Homeless Youth, and Adult Literacy. DYCD also
administers services to immigrants, refugees, and non-citizens as well as programs related to youth
enrichment and employment.

Reporting to the Director of Strategic Learning, the Senior Training Associate is responsible for
supporting, monitoring, and evaluating training programs designed for agency staff. The Senior
Training Associate serves as a point of contact for communications, interpretation, and executing
training activities and curricula related to Youth Program observation and evaluation, project
management, and utilization of Microsoft products (such as Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word).

The Office of Professional Development and Mandated Training is recruiting for one Associate Staff
Analyst to function as Senior Training Associate who will:

Develop content for Professional Development training including but not limited to:

- Senior Management Training, Career Development, Youth Development Programming and Program Manager
Core Competencies.

- Participate in meetings as well as develop surveys and other analysis tools to assess the agency’s training and professional development needs.

- Coordinate agency-wide and division-specific training activities and ensure that the development and
implementation of training programs meet the needs and priorities of the agency.

- Participate in train-the-trainer workshops to become familiar with curriculum materials and presentation methodology for compliance trainings, new hire orientation, and content-specific workshops.

- Co-develop curriculum materials including lesson plans, trainers' guides, trainee workbooks, case studies, role plays, pre/post-tests, and evaluation instruments, and deliver content to adult learners.

- Play a fundamental role in orienting new employees. Participate in the planning, development, and implementation of new staff development curricula as well as the evaluation and refinement of existing programs to enhance the professional, technical, and programmatic capabilities of staff.

- Collaborate with various outside agencies and vendors to identify training opportunities, define deliverables, and manage vendor delivery of training. Such training may include courses, workshops, seminars, and staff development institutes.

- Provide rate-of-completion reports on compliance trainings and ad-hoc support with NYCAPS
ePerformance.

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