Senior Program Manager, Leadership Development

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We’re building a movement - an education revolution.

We’re building a world where anyone, anywhere can have access to the best education regardless of where they were born. At our core, we believe education is a right, not a privilege. To that end, we’re building a company and a suite of products to lead the charge in transforming access to education.

ApplyBoard is an online platform that empowers students around the world to access the best education by connecting international students, recruitment partners, and academic institutions. We simplify the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process. Not only do we help students with their study abroad journey, but we also help academic institutions to find the best students globally. Our goal is to help enable better, more diverse, schools that are enriched with cultures from all over the world.

The Role

In this newly created Senior Program Manager, Leadership Development role, we are looking for an experienced, collaborative leadership facilitator and program manager to identify and build ApplyBoard’s management and leadership development solutions, addressing leaders and managers greatest challenges. Working closely in partnership with the Head of Global Leadership & OD, HRBPs, senior leaders and our learning design team, you will build high-trust relationships and identify, plan, design, develop, implement and assess scalable management development programming and initiatives as well as targeted leadership development programs and custom solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to help one of Canada’s fastest-growing EdTech firms establish a unified leadership (behavioural) standard for all AB people managers globally, effectively enabling our managers and leaders to grow and develop their people at every level in the organization. This is a key strategic role creating the programs, tools, processes and experiences which help our leaders keep pace with the continued growth of the business, protect and strengthen our culture and create a winning ApplyBoard employee experience globally.

The ideal candidate is a strong relationship builder with a bias for action, strong experience building and leading in-person leadership skill building workshops, team development events, virtual learning experiences and on-demand learning resources. You are a collaborative program manager with a growth mindset, global orientation, cultural sensitivity and the ability to work effectively across cultures and geographies to gain support for and deliver global programming and development solutions.

Location: Kitchener, Waterloo or Greater Toronto Area

What you’ll be doing every day:

• Member of global Learning & Talent Development team who partners closely with senior leaders, People & Culture (HRBPs), managers across the organization; builds a clear understanding of the key challenges, opportunities and skill gaps facing our emerging leaders, team leads, managers and senior leadership
• Builds and conducts a leadership needs assessment (LNA) to identify, plan, design, develop, implement and assess scalable management development programming and initiatives as well as targeted leadership development programs and custom solutions, in partnership with our learning design team.
• Partners closely with the Global Head of Leadership & OD, executive team, P&C leadership team and senior leaders to co-develop a unified leadership (behavioural) standard for all AB people managers globally; leads/manages the development of ApplyBoard’s Careers (Competency) Framework.
• Works in partnership with peers and senior leaders across each key business unit to identify key performance, skills & knowledge gaps, prioritizing actions and creating business-driven development solutions
• Program manager for all leadership/management development curriculum and programming for organization; owns the strategy, content development and delivery of all manager and leadership development programs within global Talent Development offering.
• Assesses learning and development needs through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and communication with managers, facilitators/trainers, and subject matter experts.
• Creates and/or partners within learning, talent development and internal teams to develop or curate a leadership toolkit to support key leadership practices, processes, guides, job aids, digital learning assets and course materials.
• Facilitates in-person and virtual leadership development workshops, management development courses and programs using a variety of instructional formats including group discussion, case study, business simulations, lecture, videos to ensure engagement, knowledge transfer and measurable skill development take place
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure seamless integration of new manager/leadership development solutions within existing learning & talent development offerings.
• Coaches leaders to live our company values and culture, deliver A+ customer experiences and employee experiences and help their team members grow and develop
• Highly skilled at coaching and debriefing personal psychometric profile reports (ie. DISC, Insights Discovery, MBTI) and leading team effectiveness workshops
• Assesses leadership development solutions and training materials; develops appropriate mechanisms to measure learning impact.
• Evaluate the business impact of leadership programs using learning and performance metrics; tracks training activity in global LMS (Workday)
• Maintains current knowledge of trends and research in the leadership and talent development industry.
  
  

What you bring to the table:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Adult Training & Development, Organizational Behaviour, Psychology, Education or equivalent, ideally within a hyper-growth, fast scaling technology organization.
• Prior people management experience an asset.
• At least 8 years of experience in leadership development, management training, learning design and group facilitation.
• Strong consulting experience ideally with ability to influence and manage upwards.
• Proven expertise conducting learning needs assessments, analyzing and prioritizing manager and leadership development needs linked to needed business outcomes
• Certified in psychometric assessment tools an asset (ie. DISC, Insights Discovery, MBTI)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; operates well across geographies.
• Strong program/project management and group facilitation skillset.
• Works well in hyper-growth environments; executes with in ambiguity.
• Adept with a variety of multimedia training platforms and methods.
• Ability to evaluate and research training options and alternatives.
• Ability to design and implement effective learning and development experiences.
• Extremely proficient with Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite and project management tools and/or software.
• Experience tracking training events/activity within LMS (Workday Learning) an asset.
  
  

Life at ApplyBoard:

By joining our team, you have the opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing technology companies, not only in Canada but the world. With that, you will have many opportunities for professional growth and advancement. Work alongside a globally diverse team of more than 1,000 team members from 25+ countries , representing 30+ nationalities , and speaking 50+ languages.

Make a difference in the lives of thousands of students as they explore educational opportunities.

About ApplyBoard:

ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application, and acceptance process to more than 1,500 institutions across Canada, Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. ApplyBoard, headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, has helped more than 200,000 students from more than 125 countries along their educational journeys since 2015.

ApplyBoard was named the fastest-growing technology company in Canada by Deloitte, ranking #1 on the Technology Fast 50™ list in 2019 and #2 in 2020. ApplyBoard was also been named to LinkedIn’s list of Top Startups in 2020 and TechTO’s list of top Canadian Rocketship companies to accelerate your career in the Tech Industry.

In 2021, ApplyBoard announced a C$375M Series D funding on a C$4B valuation. This funding will allow us to further invest in our technology, grow our team around the world, and serve more students on our mission to educate the world. Thank you for your interest in ApplyBoard. Please note that only qualified applicants that have been selected for an interview will be contacted.