Talent Development Manager

We are excited to consider your application for anticipated vacancies in the 2025-2026 school year.We are thrilled that youre considering applying for openings expected in the 2025-2026 school year at Friendship Public Charter School.Our formal interview process will begin in January 2025 for our confirmed vacancies only. Non-vacant positions may still be posted during this time.

Friendship Public Charter School operates a network of college-preparatory public charter schools serving students from preschool through 12th grade. Our mission is to provide a world-class education that equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary for academic achievement and success beyond high school.

We are seeking dedicated professionals to join our team for the 2025/2026 school year. If you are committed to helping students achieve academic success and preparing them for college and career opportunities we encourage you to apply.

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Please note the salary range for the role is $75000 - $90000

Key Responsibilities

1. Learning Program Design & Implementation

• Coordinate and facilitate learning experiences across multiple levels (e.g. onboarding emerging leader development cross-functional learning communities).
• Manage logistics vendor relationships (if any) and evaluation processes for initiatives.
• Design and deliver role-based professional development experiences aligned to organizational competencies and performance expectations.

2. Onboarding & Career Pathway Design

• Supports the design development and execution of a multi-layered onboarding experience that reflects the needs of different staff groups (instructional operations school-based central office leaders etc.) while reinforcing core culture and expectations.
• Key components to develop and maintain:
• Org-wide onboarding foundation (mission values culture norms student experience professionalism expectations)
• Role-based onboarding tracks (examples: teacher paraprofessional resident operations staff AP/Dean principal central office)
• Leader onboarding supports (how to lead people manage performance and drive outcomes within Friendship systems)
• 30/60/90-day guides
• checklist completion tracking
• FAQs quick-start guides
• Outputs / deliverables
• Annual onboarding scope calendar
• Facilitator guides slide decks
• Role-based onboarding agendas and learning sequences
• Standardized onboarding checklist completion tracker
• Resource hub pages for new hires managers
• Support the mapping and communication of career development pathways (e.g. paraprofessional to teacher teacher to leader) in partnership with People team ( HR Ops Talent Dev and Talent Acquisition) and Academic team members.
• Regularly evaluate onboarding and promotion data to inform improvements to talent pipelines and early retention strategies.

3. Performance Management & Talent Forecasting

• Helps drive the organizations performance management systems; including timelines training documentation and evaluation calibration.
• Partner with the supervisor to ensure goal-setting mid-year and end-of-year evaluations are completed with consistency and quality.
• Assist in talent forecasting and workforce planning by maintaining data on role readiness leadership capacity and internal talent mobility.

4. Competency-Based Development Systems

• Aids in operationalizing competency frameworks across recruitment selection hiringonboarding development evaluation and coaching systems.
• Create resources and tools that help team members and managers use competencies in real-time (e.g. development guides feedback prompts rubrics).
• Support the Individual Learning Plan (ILP) process through system training coaching tracking and progress celebrations.

5. Project Management & Systems Enablement

• Drives project management for core development cycles.
• Support alignment across departments and teams through shared calendars documented cycles and regular communications.
• Collaborate with the supervisor on strategic planning related to talent development.

6. Platform Communications & Resource Management

• Build and manage the organizations talent development hub (website or platform) as a central accessible source for professional learning resources tools and communication.
• Develop and manage communications related to talent development; email campaigns learning bulletins internal development announcements etc.
• Create user-friendly toolkits and resource libraries for onboarding coaching and performance development.

7. Talent Data Monitoring & Reporting

• Collect and analyze data related to onboarding attrition training effectiveness engagement ILP usage and other key talent indicators.
• Create dashboards or progress trackers to help leaders monitor learning completion leadership pipeline strength and development impact.
• Contribute to data reviews and strategy sessions by sharing insights and making recommendations.

8. Culture Belonging & Engagement Enablement

• Support the rollout follow-up and action planning from staff engagement and culture surveys.
• Collaborate on the design and implementation of initiatives that foster belonging recognition and inclusive leadership practices.
• Help ensure that team development initiatives are responsive to staff voice and aligned to retention strategies.

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree required (Masters degree preferred).
• At least 4-5 years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas:
  Talent Development Learning & Development (L&D) Organizational Development HR Talent Management or Leadership Development.
• At least 2 years of experience designing and facilitating professional learning for adults (in-person and/or virtual).

Core Skill Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement learning programs end-to-end including planning facilitation logistics and evaluation.
• Experience supporting onboarding programs and staff development systems preferably role-based.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives while meeting timelines and quality expectations.
• Ability to create professional materials including slide decks facilitator guides training agendas toolkits and learning resources.

Systems & Data Competency

• Experience using data to inform and improve programming (e.g. tracking participation completion feedback and outcomes).
• Ability to build and maintain simple dashboards/tools using platforms such as:
  Google Workspace (Sheets/Slides) Microsoft Office HRIS/LMS tools or survey platforms.
• Comfort partnering across teams to coordinate timelines communications and implementation of people systems.

Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to draft:
• Staff-facing communications
• Manager toolkits and resources
• Training and process documentation
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. HR Ops Talent Acquisition Academic leadership school-based leaders).

Preferred Context

• Experience supporting or working within a school system education nonprofit or multi-site organization.
• Experience supporting manager development performance management or competency-based systems.

FPCSs policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees regardless of their race color religion sex age national origin disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status genetic information veteran status status as a special disabled veteran or any other protected criteria as established by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to recruitment and hiring training promotion compensation benefits transfer layoff termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. Employment decisions at FPCS are based solely upon relevant criteria including an individuals capabilities qualifications training experience and suitability.