SUMMARY
Partners with Donated Goods Retail (DGR) leadership to designs, facilitates, and evaluate New Employee
Orientation (NEO) and School of Retail (SOR) & Manager Training programming to prepare DGR team
members for their DGR roles with Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont by performing the
following duties.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES are listed below in order of importance, from most important
to least important:
Works in partnership with DGR leadership to assess training needs and create and revise curriculum
including program materials, job aids, manuals, multimedia visual aids, and SharePoint reference
materials to meet training needs and support knowledge retention. Capitalizes on the use of technology
to improve training processes, engages team member participants, improves accessibility to learning,
designs e-learning, and drives training outcomes. Creates methods to validate knowledge transfer (i.e.
knowledge checks, activities, group discussions, etc.). Partners with DGR leadership on the utilization of
reference materials in store to support continued knowledge retention.
Develops team member skills through promotion and use of self-directed training resources such as the
Learning and Growth Hub to deliver on demand learning tools and resources for all DGR team members.
Builds relationships across the organization to create best in class SOR programming. Works
collaboratively with DGR leadership and operations, Human Resources, Loss Prevention, Safety, and
Goodwill University to identify needs, create and implement appropriate training solutions that support
team member performance, advancement and retention.
Creates and implements train-the-trainer process to ensure consistency in delivery and use of materials
for all SOR and NEO programming. Trains retail team members, thereby ensuring consistency and
scalability in the training process. Partners with DGR leadership on Store Manager in Training rotations
and train-the-trainer schedules. Partners with DGR leadership to identify DGR-assigned team members
for train-the-trainer opportunities.
Monitors consistent application of designed SOR and NEO program materials by Standard Operating
Procedures.
Enters and tracks training related data into appropriate databases of required and completed training
courses.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university in Human Resource Management,
Organizational development, Adult Learning, Business or related field and three years’ experience
developing, coordinating and conducting training.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Valid Driver’s License (Class C), car insurance and reliable automobile required.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly (more than 2/3 of the day)
required to talk or hear. The team member regularly (more than 2/3 of the day) is required to stand,
walk; and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The team member is occasionally (less than 1/3 of the
day) required to sit; reach with hands and arms. The team member must frequently lift and/or move up
to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this
job include close vision, color vision, and depth perception. Occasional travel to the Goodwill Retail
Stores is required to ensure that operations are in alignment with the School of Retail curriculum and
SOPs and when developing new training.