Leadership Development Facilitator

Summary

Spire is seeking a Leadership Development Facilitator to join our team our Birmingham Talent Development team. In this role, the Facilitator plays a key part in fostering a top-tier learning-focused environment for all employees. Your responsibilities will include designing, facilitating, and enhancing learning and development programs, as well as managing and administering our learning management system to support employee growth and engagement.

Duties and Responsibilities

- Serve as the onsite contact for all training occurring in the Southeast (AL and MS)

- Facilitate leadership development workshops, including the Birmingham Leading Spire Series sessions and quarterly Leading the Field instructor-led courses

- Assist in the building and facilitating of various learning and development programs for leaders, individual contributors and targeted employee audiences such as foremen and field employees

- Deliver high-quality, effective learning by executing and facilitating in-house and ad-hoc assessment analyses (DiSC, EQi, StrengthsFinder, etc.), manage vendors, and budget coordination

- Serve as primary administrator and team superuser of My Learning, Spire's internal learning management system, ensuring it serves as a robust and effective tool for employee learning. Act as the primary liaison between Spire and content vendors to facilitate seamless communication and collaboration. Regularly analyze and interpret quarterly system analytics, identifying key insights to drive continuous improvement and enhance user experience. Update and curate the learning library to ensure it aligns with Spire's core competencies, behaviors, and organizational goals, integrating courses that support both personal and professional growth across the company. Provide guidance and support to talent development team members, leaders and content creators from other departments in utilizing the system effectively to maximize its impact.

- Champion talent development and HR initiatives in the region by collaborating with various stakeholders

- Other responsibilities and duties, as needed to supplement the workload of our team

Essential Characteristics and Competencies

- Self-motivated with the ability to organize and prioritize work with attention to detail

- Proactive individual who thrives in an environment that encourages initiative and independence

- Proven ability to establish and nurture professional relationships across diverse teams and stakeholders, fostering collaboration and driving positive outcomes

- Outstanding ability to collaborate with teammates, subject matter experts and various departments when needed on project planning, development, and implementation to ensure high quality results

- Aptitude to manage numerous projects simultaneously

- High tolerance for workload demands, pressures and deadlines

- Strong initiative and ability to independently lead processes/projects yielding quality results

- Must be flexible and eager to adapt to change

- Must demonstrate positive, respectful behavior in dealing with people at all levels, and a role model as a representative of the company

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Required Education (certifications, licenses)

- Bachelor’s Degree REQUIRED, preferably in learning and development, organizational development, human resources, communications, business, or related field

- DiSC, EQ-i certifications preferred

Required knowledge, skill and abilities

- REQUIRED: 5+ years of relevant experience in facilitation, public speaking, learning and development, human resources, or organizational development

- Minimum of 1 year of experience in administering or managing a learning management system (LMS), preferred

- Strong strategic thinking, consulting, organizational and project management skills

- Experience in the assessment, design, development and implementation and evaluation of training programs, including e-learning applications

- Excellent facilitation, written, and presentation skills to Spire’s individual contributors and frontline supervisors

- Proficiency with the MS Office Suite

Physical demands, environment and schedule

- Typically, 8 hours per day, Monday – Friday

- Hybrid work enviroment: 3 days per week onsite, 2 days per week remote

- Travel: approximately 20% of time traveling to other work locations (to include, but not limited to, Spire locations in the outlying areas of Birmingham, Mobile, St. Louis, Kansas City, etc.)

Company Overview

At Spire, we believe energy exists to help people. To enrich their lives, grow their businesses, advance their communities. It’s a simple idea, but one that’s at the heart of our business. We’re dedicated to understanding our customers’ needs and goals to better serve them today and tomorrow. That’s why we’re always looking for driven, collaborative people to join our team. Because we believe that offering our customers the best service means bringing together the best people.

And we find the best by hiring those who share our values of safety, inclusion and integrity, and demonstrate our four essential behaviors that bring the Spire culture to life:

- We make it happen: We are a company of go-getters, acting on every opportunity to help our company advance.

- We seek out perspective: We challenge ourselves to be open to different ways of doing things, because learning from each other leads to breakthroughs.

- We collaborate: We put teamwork first, bringing in everyone’s ideas, because our collective energy makes us stronger.

- We care: We treat people how we want to be treated, listening closely and doing what’s right, even when it’s hard

By living our values and behaviors every day, we strive to create an environment where every employee feels welcome, respected and valued.

Posting Requirements

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.