Updated: Mar 13, 2025 - The Development Expert actively supports the design and management of cultural development programs at the Group level, ensuring a solid foundation for related activities. Provides expertise by developing action plans and supporting local business units with customized solutions in change projects. Collaborates with HR and Communications to prepare materials for management meetings, workshops, and training programs to drive effective cultural change.


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1. Development Expert, Nexus Innovations, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Support NTC staff to ensure that ELD training is aligned with DOE’s operational needs in their area of expertise
- Travel to the site(s) for occasional training when required
- Maintaining and applying a comprehensive (mastery-level) knowledge and competency in area(s) of occupational expertise and related laws, regulations, and orders
- Maintaining and applying comprehensive (mastery-level) knowledge of training/learning methodologies and techniques
- Keeping up-to-date regarding requisite and prescribed training/learning techniques and methodologies
- Supporting NTC staff on training projects/programs about the management and technical training field
- Maintaining professional certification and qualification standards
- Teaches and conducts training presentations, identifying learning objectives
- Reviewing course materials and lesson plans before instruction and/or presentation
- Utilizing teaching aids (e.g., multimedia visual aids, training handbooks, reference works, demonstration models, etc)
- Utilizing instructional methodologies (e.g., classroom instruction, demonstration, hands-on experience, performance exercises, scenarios, role-playing, lectures, discussions, etc,), utilizing knowledge of specified training needs and effectiveness of such methods
- Carrying out training presentations within the prescribed course framework
- Facilitates course presentations by maintaining course schedules
- Ensuring training presentations are carried out within the prescribed course structure and schedule
Skills on Resume:
- Occupational Expertise Mastery (Hard Skills)
- Training Methodologies Mastery (Hard Skills)
- Staying Current on Training (Hard Skills)
- Program Support (Soft Skills)
- Certification Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Presentation Delivery (Soft Skills)
- Course Material Review (Hard Skills)
- Instructional Methods Usage (Hard Skills)
2. Development Expert, Blue Ridge Solutions, Asheville, NC
Job Summary:
- Observing student performance and application of techniques and skills
- Assessing comprehension of subject matter, using oral interviews, written examinations, and performance tests
- Reviewing course critiques and analyzing information
- Preparing and submitting after-action reports
- Maintaining a comprehensive level of knowledge, skills, and abilities requisite in the relevant subject area
- Reviewing course materials before instruction or presentation
- Incorporating requisite and prescribed training methodologies and techniques
- Maintaining continuity and consistency of training.
- Ensuring learning goals and objectives are achieved
- Carrying out training presentations within the prescribed course structure
- Following applicable DOE orders and relevant workplace policies and procedures
- Planning, organizing, and prioritizing work for accomplishment within expected timeframes
- Documenting action(s) and task(s) completed
- Accurately recording the account code and time worked on each course/project
- Preparing and submitting for processing applicable forms/requisitions required for course/project completion
- Following applicable DOE, and NTC-specific policies and procedures
Skills on Resume:
- Student Observation (Soft Skills)
- Comprehension Assessment (Soft Skills)
- Critique Review (Hard Skills)
- Report Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Instructional Support (Soft Skills)
- Knowledge Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Methodology Application (Hard Skills)
- Work Planning (Soft Skills)
3. Development Expert, Urban Growth Systems, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Work directly with both front-line and senior leadership across multiple sales team functional areas to identify strategic goals for the business unit
- Develop appropriate programs for both new-hire onboarding and ongoing employee development with little to no supervision over the gathering of goals and the development of programs.
- Develop and execute front-line leadership and coaching programs to ensure front-line leaders have the skills necessary to lead their teams successfully.
- Develop new and existing Kinetic Direct sales representatives by developing and facilitating effective sales content and coaching sales and sales leadership.
- Develop sales skills, improve productivity, reduce employee churn, and enhance learner experience.
- Focus on strategic objectives around the transformation of the employee onboarding process and alignment with organizational change
- Perform continual skill gap assessments with salespeople and sales leadership in their assigned functional group and define methods to close those gaps
- Provide coaching and development of leadership and reinforcement of all Windstream Learning & Development architecture and programs
- Manage all new sales training requests, document requests, and vet requests for validity
- Prioritize with Learning & Development leadership
- Define success criteria, measurement, and reporting
- Work with Development teams to ensure development meets the desired outcomes
- Provide expertise in the development and delivery of continuing education modules to ensure continued sales growth and expertise
- Be a direct resource for all sales professionals, sales leadership, and other Learning & Development team members
- Responsible for timely updates to all internal resources that salespeople may use that aid in their productivity
- Provide input into additional support areas for operational process improvements
Skills on Resume:
- Strategic Goal Identification (Soft Skills)
- Program Development (Hard Skills)
- Leadership Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Sales Content Development (Hard Skills)
- Skill Gap Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Employee Development (Soft Skills)
- Success Measurement and Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement Input (Soft Skills)
4. Product Development Chemist Expert, Alpine Dynamics, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Work independently to conduct product development in line with current legislation and anticipate future legislation.
- Work independently for product certificate qualification according to the state test method.
- Provide support to help processing maintain efficient processing formulation for local conditions
- Maintain cost efficiency of products by a systematic plan for approving the use of local raw material whilst retaining product performance and application characteristics
- Maintain accurate records of all work undertaken and full traceability of R&D
- Provide regular proposals for reworking slow-moving stock (RM or FG) and returned stock.
- Provide internal technical support to the sales team for technical know-how improvement.
- Take an active role in problem-solving of customer issues using appropriate methodology.
- EHS consciousness and maintaining laboratory tidy.
Skills on Resume:
- Product Development (Hard Skills)
- Certificate Qualification (Hard Skills)
- Processing Support (Soft Skills)
- Cost Efficiency Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Record Keeping (Hard Skills)
- Stock Reworking Proposals (Hard Skills)
- Technical Support for Sales (Soft Skills)
- Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
5. Strategic Development Expert, Riverbend Consulting, Des Moines, IA
Job Summary:
- Independently develop solutions for a project, including managing complex issues, by applying in-depth supply chain and industry knowledge.
- Interpret data received from more junior individual contributors and develop recommendations that optimize performance.
- Own strategic supply chain projects from planning through to execution and provide findings resulting from project execution.
- Consult with business leaders on a wide range of supply chain issues.
- Support overall GEO alignment process
- Support for FO contribution to the $1m deal process
- Support weekly scorecard reporting for the GEO
- Support the FO part of the S&OP process
- Be part of the weekly sales engagement process
- Support of the executive Fulfillment Ops summary communication
- Support monthly post-mortem process for the GEO
- Support revenue assessment process
Skills on Resume:
- Solution Development (Hard Skills)
- Data Interpretation (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Project Management (Hard Skills)
- Supply Chain Consultation (Soft Skills)
- GEO Alignment Support (Soft Skills)
- Sales Engagement Support (Soft Skills)
- Scorecard Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Revenue Assessment Support (Hard Skills)
6. People & Organizational Development Expert, Elevate Strategies, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Partners with HR management on performance consulting by recommending appropriate ASML and other solutions to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance.
- Creates change management strategies and plans, supporting HR business partners with efforts, such as shifts in organizational structure, roles and responsibilities, job redesign, and skills assessments.
- Implements stakeholder assessments, communication plans, and readiness analyses that facilitate strategic business goals.
- Design and implement training and team intervention programs aligned with organizational goals.
- Assesses, designs, and manages successful leadership and employee development programs that improve organizational results, increase skills and provide professional development.
- Drives the Talent Review and Succession Planning Lifecycle process.
- Partners with the global HR organization and local teams to design and deliver an overall engagement and talent management strategy, including communication, sponsorship, reinforcement and readiness plans that increase organizational, unit and employees effectiveness.
- Designs and delivers communications and marketing strategies (in partnership with stakeholders) that enable HR and employees to keep apprised of activities and projects related to people development initiatives.
- Maximizes the use of technology in the communication process.
- Measures impact of initiatives in delivering value for the business.
- Establishes effective relationships at all levels of the organization and with global team members, while gaining and maintaining credibility and trust
- Identifies trends or issues through daily interaction with departments, bringing ideas back to the HR team to effectively develop strategies to address problem areas
- Supports other HR Department initiatives leveraging natural tendency towards teamwork
Skills on Resume:
- Performance Consulting (Soft Skills)
- Change Management (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Assessment (Hard Skills)
- Training Design (Hard Skills)
- Succession Planning (Hard Skills)
- Talent Strategy (Soft Skills)
- Communication Strategy (Soft Skills)
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
7. Development Expert, Horizon Development Group, Madison, WI
Job Summary:
- Provide active support in managing and designing the content of the cultural development program on the Group level to ensure a solid ground for any related activity.
- Providing comprehensive expertise by building action plans along with the program roadmap
- Supporting the development of the MOL Group Change Management framework, working out practices and supporting individual organizations when organizational change initiatives are undertaken
- Support local business unit members with tailor-made solutions in individual change projects and culture development journeys
- Act as an internal trainer in workshops facilitated by train-the-trainer methodology
- Ensure good cooperation between relevant units, mostly with HR and Communications
- Preparing materials, reports for different management meetings and the steering committee and training materials for change programs
- Participating in collecting, organizing, and communicating best practices
- Supporting Culture and Change Management Team members in the personalization localization of program content
- Active participation in creating new practices and frameworks and collaborating with other relevant departments are must-haves to drive the position to succeed.
- Facilitate communication and clarification of technical requirements between partner and cross-functional departments
- Prepare decision proposals on technical requirements and development
- Enhance supplier qualification to fulfill VW process and technical requirement
Skills on Resume:
- Cultural Program Design (Hard Skills)
- Change Management (Soft Skills)
- Tailor-made Solutions (Soft Skills)
- Training Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Cross-Unit Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Report Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Best Practices Sharing (Soft Skills)
- Supplier Qualification (Hard Skills)
8. Development Expert, Coastal Frameworks, Savannah, GA
Job Summary:
- Drive the design and implementation of Talent identification and assessment principles and Talent Review processes to strengthen the talent pool
- Design and implement Talent development policies and programs
- Design the portfolio of development opportunities to support the leadership and critical talent pools
- Analyze the impact of leadership and critical talent training initiatives
- Consult and coach leaders
- Encourage online learning culture by identifying, implementing and managing online learning solutions
- Design, organize and facilitate internal training sessions
- Manage learning suppliers, including contract negotiation and budget administration
- Coordinate on-site VW module and process team at partner’s facilities
- Plan, organized, directed and conducted industrialization-related activities
- FMEA and control plan, Quality assurance, MES, and Key manufacturing processing, etc
- Develop, improve and correct the partner’s planning and execution of battery cell /module manufacturing
- Assembly techniques and quality control processes from the sample phase to mass production qualification
Skills on Resume:
- Talent Identification (Hard Skills)
- Talent Development Programs (Hard Skills)
- Leadership Development (Soft Skills)
- Training Impact Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Leadership Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Online Learning Management (Hard Skills)
- Supplier Management (Soft Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
9. Development Expert, Summit Enterprises, Billings, MT
Job Summary:
- Provide subject matter expertise (SME) in sensor and medical device development: from novel wearable sensor form factors to inline sensors for monitoring physiological functions (e.g. catheter sensors) to sensors for large medical devices (dialysis, ECMO).
- Experience in either or both of the following is strongly desired: sensor and device development in medical care strongly desired, particularly for medical devices for lung and life support (e.g. ventilator, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation)
- Sensor development for devices that monitor health-related information directly from an individual.
- Provide lead wearable sensor SME support to BARDA’s Early Notification to Act, Treat and Control (ENACT) program team.
- Provide lead sensor SME support for the development of new medical devices for health monitoring and life support.
- Provide broad support to BARDA Division of Research, Innovation and Ventures (DRIVe) associated with identifying and validating novel approaches to physiological and biomarker sensors and sensors in the field of life and health support medical devices (oxygenators, blood exchange, dialysis, ECMO…)
- Provide expert advice and opinion on the emerging landscape of new hardware, miniaturization approaches, and experimental concepts to evaluate, test and develop next-generation biophysical sensors and nontraditional platforms.
- Work with team to leverage bio-engineering and clinical care requirements in concert with physical, physiological and biomarker sensors, e.g. sensors incorporated in wearable and on-demand devices as well as for medical health and life support capabilities.
- Support BARDA’s expanding collaborations with NIH, DOD, FDA, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in defining, aligning and driving future strategies, emerging areas of related science, knowledge assessments, innovation from related fields and critical partnerships necessary to realize successful research and development of new solutions reliant on personal devices as disease detection modalities.
- Review, evaluate, and support potential products about scientific feasibility, risks and mitigation strategies, and requirements for entrance into the ENACT program and/or other BARDA programs in alignment with BARDA’s national health security priorities.
- Facilitate and monitor progress in the establishment and management of any potential new programs in the health and life support medical devices arena.
Skills on Resume:
- Sensor Development (Hard Skills)
- Wearable Sensor Support (Hard Skills)
- Medical Device Development (Hard Skills)
- Biomarker Sensors (Hard Skills)
- Hardware Expertise (Soft Skills)
- Bio-Engineering Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Partnership Support (Soft Skills)
- Feasibility Evaluation (Hard Skills)