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Vice President of Learning and Development
Job Location:
Job Location:
Gainesville, FL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
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Posted:
29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
27 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Vice President Learning & Development
Position Purpose:
The Vice President of Learning & Development provides strategic leadership for the credit unions enterprise-wide learning and development function. This position is responsible for building a modern scalable and measurable learning environment that equips employees and leaders with the knowledge skills and capabilities needed to perform effectively deliver exceptional member experiences and support the credit unions continued growth.
The VP will bring professional expertise in adult learning instructional design leadership development learning technology and performance improvement to continuously strengthen how employees learn and develop. This role will evaluate existing learning practices and technology establish consistent standards improve the efficiency and effectiveness of training and ensure learning investments produce meaningful employee and organizational outcomes.
Essential Responsibilities
Learning & Development Strategy
- Develop and execute an enterprise-wide learning and development strategy aligned with the credit unions strategic priorities culture growth and future workforce needs.
- Partner with executive and departmental leaders to identify organizational skill gaps development priorities and performance needs.
- Establish consistent learning standards and scalable approaches that support employees across roles departments and locations.
Learning Design & Employee Development
- Establish modern instructional-design practices based on adult-learning principles and demonstrated employee competency.
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of new-hire onboarding role-based learning pathways ongoing professional development and performance-support resources.
- Develop leadership-development strategies and programs for current and emerging leaders.
- Partner with subject-matter experts and operational leaders to ensure training is accurate relevant practical and aligned with employee and business needs.
Learning Technology & Innovation
- Develop and lead the credit unions learning technology and digital-learning strategy.
- Evaluate existing learning systems and lead the assessment selection implementation and optimization of future learning platforms and technologies when appropriate.
- Use technology automation digital learning and emerging tools including artificial intelligence to improve learning accessibility consistency efficiency and effectiveness.
- Determine the appropriate mix of instructor-led virtual digital self-directed and blended learning based on the learning objective and audience.
Measurement & Continuous Improvement
- Establish meaningful measures of learning effectiveness focused on employee competency time to proficiency performance improvement and business outcomes rather than course completion alone.
- Use learning data employee feedback and operational results to identify gaps and continuously improve learning programs.
- Provide leadership with meaningful reporting regarding organizational capabilities development needs learning effectiveness and priorities.
Organizational Change & Strategic Initiatives
- Partner with project teams and organizational leaders to develop learning and adoption strategies for technology implementations system conversions process changes new products mergers and other strategic initiatives.
- Ensure learning and employee-readiness needs are identified early and incorporated into organizational initiatives.
- Develop scalable approaches for preparing employees for significant organizational and technological change.
Compliance & Required Training
- Partner with Compliance Risk Information Security Human Resources and other stakeholders to maintain an effective mandatory and regulatory training program.
- Ensure required training is appropriately assigned completed documented and available for audit and regulatory reporting.
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead develop and provide strategic direction to the Learning & Development team.
- Establish priorities performance expectations development plans and standards for high-quality learning delivery.
- Build strong partnerships across the organization and create a culture of continuous learning accountability knowledge sharing and improvement.
- Manage the Learning & Development budget and recommend appropriate investments in learning technology resources and employee development.
- Participate as a member of the leadership team and contribute to broader organizational strategy and initiatives.
Minimum Education Experience & Skills Required:
Education
Bachelors degree in Learning and Development Organizational Development Education Instructional Design Human Resources Business Administration Learning Technology or a related discipline required.
Masters degree or recognized professional certification in learning and development instructional design organizational development or a related discipline preferred.
Experience
- Seven or more years of progressively responsible professional experience in learning and development organizational development instructional design training or a related field.
- Three or more years of experience leading employees and/or a learning and development function.
- Demonstrated experience developing and implementing organizational learning strategies.
- Demonstrated expertise in adult learning instructional design employee development and performance improvement.
- Significant experience with Learning Management Systems digital learning and learning technology including experience evaluating implementing or substantially improving learning platforms.
- Experience developing onboarding role-based development and leadership-development programs.
- Experience using data and performance measures to evaluate and improve learning effectiveness.
- Experience supporting organizational growth change or transformation strongly preferred.
- Financial services credit-union or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
- Strong knowledge of adult-learning principles instructional design workplace learning leadership development and performance improvement.
- Ability to translate organizational strategy and operational needs into practical learning and development solutions.
- Ability to build learning programs and processes that are scalable efficient consistent and measurable.
- Strong understanding of learning technology digital learning learning analytics and emerging applications of artificial intelligence and automation.
- Ability to distinguish situations requiring training from performance issues related to processes technology management communication or other organizational factors.
- Strong leadership coaching facilitation communication collaboration project-management and change-management skills.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to demonstrate the effectiveness and organizational impact of learning initiatives.
- Ability to balance innovation with operational realities organizational resources and regulatory responsibilities.
Required Experience:
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About Company
Radiant Credit Union helps members in Florida communities move forward with competitive rates on auto loans, mortgages, credit cards, and everyday banking.
