Benefits Overview

A career at CoBank can offer you the opportunity to make a personal impact on the people and communities where we do business. When you choose a career with CoBank, you make a difference by standing for something that matters. In order to be the best, we hire the best!

Remarkable Benefits Offered by CoBank

• Careers with a purpose. Stand for something!
• Time-Off Packages- over 15 days of vacation, 10 paid sick days and 11 paid holidays
• Competitive Compensation & Incentive
• Hybrid work model: flexible arrangements for most positions
• Benefits Packages, including Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Disability, AD&D, and Life Insurance
• Robust associate training and development with CoBank University
• Tuition reimbursement for higher education up to $10,000 per year
• Outstanding 401k: up to 6% matching and additional 3% non-elective contribution
• Community Impact: United Way Angel Day, Volunteer Day and Associate Directed Contribution
• Associate Resource Groups: creating a culture of diversity and inclusion
• Recognize a fellow associate through our GEM awards

Job Description

At CoBank, our Learning and Development Program Manager guides the creation and management of the learning programs with CoBank. This role uses insights and current best-practices to ensure learning offerings align to business strategies, are varied to support an array of learners, and enables CoBank associates to strengthen their skills and contribute using their talents. This role partners closely with the Director of Learning and Development, who is the lead learning facilitator.

*Must be willing to work 3-4 days in office/week.

Essential Functions

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Uses learning and program management expertise, and evolving best practices, to update and modernize technical, professional and leadership curriculums.
• Helps update existing and create new learning programs that are aligned to and help deliver against organizational business strategies.
• Designs innovative learning paths for associates’ current roles, as well as future career development paths.
• Manages end-to-end program management experience of creation of content, development of learning materials, logistics of learning experiences, marketing of learning opportunities, and feedback for continual refinement.
• Guides day-of activities for learning programs including set-up, welcoming attendees, ensuring facilitators can utilize the technology, assist with last-minute changes, roster and completion management and post-learning follow-up.
• Stays current on capabilities needed for the workplace of the future and researches both internally-developed and vendor-provided solutions to meet these needs.
• Partners with CoBank Director of Learning and Development, the primary learning facilitator within the organization.
• Once learning is created, develops a communication and internal marketing strategy ahead of learning launch.
• Organize learning in Learning Management System (LMS) for better searching/viewing within CoBank’s learning management system Reports metrics against strategic priorities and compliance requirements.
• Creates learning journeys for CoBank’s key talent strategies, including role succession, critical skills, critical roles, early career strategies, and diversity/equity/inclusion.
• Develops measures of success for learning tools and products, and regularly assess effectiveness and regularly reports out results.
• Works with business leaders from across the bank to assess training needs and propose effective solutions.
• Assists in managing relationships with training vendors.

Education

Minimum of HS Diploma or GED, preferred Bachelor’s degree

Work Experience

• 5 years experience in a Human Resources department in areas such as learning and development, program management, organizational effectiveness, HR Business Partner, or any other relevant function required 
• Demonstrated ability to develop curriculum and education materials required

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to prioritize, organize and manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
• Embraces and applies a mindset of continual improvement by using feedback, retrospectives, and industry research and outcome metrics.
• Solid understanding of adult learning and instructional design principles
• Effective relationship building with all levels of associates, leaders and executives
• Strong knowledge in MS Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint).
• Excellent research, judgement, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• High level of professionalism and integrity.

About CoBank

The typical base pay range for this role is between $100,000-$145,000. Compensation may vary based on individual job-related knowledge, skills, expertise, and experience. This position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance.

The listed salary, other compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. CoBank reserves the right to adjust compensation for all positions and to modify or discontinue benefits programs at any time in its sole discretion, subject to applicable law.

CoBank is a cooperative bank serving vital industries across rural America. The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states. The bank also provides wholesale loans and other financial services to affiliated Farm Credit associations serving more than 76,000 farmers, ranchers and other rural borrowers in 23 states around the country. CoBank is a member of the Farm Credit System, a nationwide network of banks and retail lending associations chartered to support the borrowing needs of U.S. agriculture, rural infrastructure and rural communities. Headquartered outside Denver, Colorado, CoBank serves customers from regional banking centers across the U.S. and also maintains an international representative office in Singapore.

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION

We are committed to ensuring that our online application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all applicants, including qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are an applicant with a disability, or are assisting an applicant with a disability, and require accessibility assistance or would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the application process, including completing an application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please submit a request by emailing recruiting@cobank.com. Include your contact information and specific details about your requested accommodation.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.