Learning Performance Consultant - Field Learning

Job Title

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

Team Overview:

Enterprise Learning is responsible for building new capabilities critical to our firm's strategy at speed and scale, ensuring our 50,000 home-office associates and branch team members are reskilled and upskilled to deliver industry-leading Human-Centered Complete Wealth Management.

What You'll Do:

The Learning Performance Consultant is responsible for diagnosing business and learner needs and leading the creation and execution of high-performance learning journeys that deliver business outcomes in support of firm strategy by enabling talent development and adoption of new/improved behaviors.

Responsibilities include:

• Establish trusted partnerships as a consultant to business leaders throughout the organization.
• Informally lead the strategy, design, and execution of learning and performance initiatives.
• Apply learner experience research, insights, adult learning principles, processes, technology, techniques, and measures.
• Partner with insights and analysis teams across the firm to design research projects, test & learns, learning measurement plans, KPIs, and feedback loops.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and established vendors to curate and incorporate appropriate resources into learning and performance initiatives.
• Serve as a mentor to design teammates at a variety of levels.
• Stay current on research and practices in Learning & Development and related fields.

What Experience You'll Need:

Master's Degree (or equivalent experience) in Education, Organizational Psychology, Human Capital Management, or related field.

5+ years of experience in corporate learning, performance consultation, or similar role, including:

• Advanced knowledge of Learning Sciences, Instructional Design, Assessment, Capability Mapping, and Modern Learning Experience Tools and Methodologies.
• Proven experience successfully leading the strategic design of firmwide learning and performance initiatives.
• Proficient understanding of the Financial Services Industry and Talent Management, with specialization in at least one discipline.

Candidates that live within a commutable distance from our Tempe, AZ and St. Louis, MO home office locations are expected to work in the office four days per week.

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program.