Job Description

McLean & Company is a dynamic, fast-paced, rapidly growing HR research and advisory firm. Through our action-oriented research and practical diagnostics, we supply clients with insight and support from our specialists. McLean is a place where your voice will be heard - a place where you see the impact of your work on our 30,000+ members. It is a place where you will find community and collaboration, where you will work with diverse individuals with their own unique stories and experiences. McLean is a place where success is celebrated by the whole team - a place where you are encouraged to stretch and grow. McLean & Company is a division of Info-Tech Research Group. We have an exciting opportunity available to join our fast-growing Learning Solutions department. The Director of Leadership, Research and Content Development - External Client Facing leads a collaborative team dedicated to the development of a wide range of high-quality learning products for our external clients, with a target audience of Leaders and HR professionals. This role is responsible for the creation of the content development agenda for the Learning & Development products. Our suite of learning products for our external clients includes eLearning, classroom training material, blended learning programs, microlearning, learning guides, webinars, and videos. Learning content is based on defined HR and leader competency. Key responsibilities:

• Leads, coaches, and develops a collaborative team of 2-4 people managers and 7-10 indirect reports (Instructional Designers, Research Analysts).
• Creates the agenda of external-facing learning product content to ensure market competitiveness.
• Ensures high quality, engaging products by directing and enhancing the content development and quality assurance processes.
• Delivers client-facing expertise in Leadership and HR development space and develops the research team to do the same.
• Partner with our commercial teams to demonstrate proof of concept for our learning content and over-the-phone advisory services to potential clients, and to scope out training engagements.
• May facilitate or co-facilitate online and onsite training offerings targeted mainly to leaders and HR audiences using a variety of creative techniques aligned with adult learning principles.

• 10+ years of relevant HR or Learning & Development experience or equivalent internal research experience.
• Demonstrated competency in creating and publishing high quality, engaging HR and leadership facing learning content
• Ability to match client needs to our suite of learning products and services
• Experience as a people manager
• Advanced project management skills
• Advanced facilitation and presentation skills

• A specialized degree or diploma in Adult Education, HR, Psychology, or Business
• Experience in Articulate Rise and Black Board or other Learning Management Systems
• Experience and familiarity with formal research methods

• Experience working with large, global organizations and/or working with internal or external clients

• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, flexible, rapidly changing work environment
• Proven ability to motivate, coach, empower, and performance manage staff to deliver organizational goals, while also delivering value back to employees
• Strong project and time management skills
• Proven ability to create frameworks around fuzzy or unstructured topics, to enable colleagues and clients with executable, practical solutions to HR and leadership challenges
• Thinks beyond the confines of traditional models to generate insights, recognize opportunities, and find new and better ways to do things
• Demonstrated ability to make informed decisions that demonstrate a broader scope of contextual and business acumen.
• Intellectually curious about the effect of learning & development on the business landscape, with a passion for continuous learning