Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider that combines expertise and technology to help clients solve complex challenges. The Learning & Development Growth Enablement Lead translates business growth priorities into skill-driven learning and enablement solutions, defining skill standards and designing, delivering, integrating, and measuring learning experiences across business development, consulting, and client delivery.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Director, Learning Strategy and business SMEs to understand growth priorities in business development, consulting, and client delivery
- Translate growth enablement and critical “in-the-moment” skill needs and learning requests into actionable solutions (programs, skill labs, tools, and on-the-job enablement)
- Collaborate with the Director, Learning Strategy to ensure growth enablement learning investments are directly aligned to business strategy and outcomes
- Define critical growth enablement skills and “what good looks like” to deliver impactful learning experiences
- Set future-state growth enablement skill levels and establish clear guidelines, standards, and expectations for skill development across roles and levels
- Ensure the growth enablement skill development is aligned to workforce readiness priorities and the ICF people strategy
- Define and maintain an evolving enterprise skills framework including governance, taxonomy, proficiency levels, and role-based skill mappings
- Partner across People Skills, Workday Skills, Viva Learning, and agents (workforce insights, learning) to ensure alignment and accuracy
- Identify growth enablement skill gaps and collaborate with the Director, Learning Strategy to use data to prioritize learning & development efforts and investments
- Own the end-to-end design and development of growth enablement learning experiences, including: Consulting skills; Business development skills; Critical in-the-moment skills; New or emerging growth enablement skills
- Ensure learning is practical, applied, in-the-flow of work, and directly tied to day-to-day business scenarios
- Leverage modern learning approaches, including AI-enabled learning, personalized pathways, and adaptive learning
- Incorporate AI-enabled tools and guided prompt practice into learning experiences to drive hands-on application and accelerate on-the-job performance
- Facilitate high-impact growth enablement learning experiences (virtual and in-person), including workshops, skill labs, and cohort-based programs
- Enable leaders and managers to reinforce growth enablement learning and support on-the-job application through communities of practice, coaching circles, mentoring, etc
- Build co-facilitator capabilities to support scalable delivery of growth enablement learning experiences
- Partner with the learning team to define success measures across growth enablement programs, skill labs, and digital learning
- Track and report on growth enablement learning effectiveness, including: Engagement and completion; Skill acquisition and proficiency shifts; Application on-the-job; Business impact (e.g., BD performance, client outcomes)
- Use data and insights to continuously improve growth enablement learning solutions
- Connect growth enablement efforts across broader workforce readiness initiatives
- Ensure alignment with other learning programs, enterprise skills framework, and priority HR initiatives (e.g. AI fluency)
- Act as a connector across teams (leadership, employee experience, HR consulting, HR operations, talent acquisition, total rewards) to create a seamless experience
- Lead the integration of growth enablement within the broader learning and skills ecosystem
- Ensure strong connections across systems and tools (e.g., learning platforms, skills systems, AI learning agents)
- Design growth enablement learning experiences that are skill-driven, discoverable, and embedded in the flow of work
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in one of the following areas; Learning & Development, Human Resources Management, Organizational Development, Education, Adult Learning / Adult Education, Instructional Design, Organizational Psychology, Workforce Development, Business Administration, Management Consulting, Organizational Leadership or Sales Management
- Minimum 8 years of experience in learning & development, talent development, sales/business development enablement, organizational effectiveness, or professional services consulting
- Experience designing and delivering sales, business development, capture, proposal, consulting, or client-facing capability programs
- Demonstrated knowledge of professional services business development, seller-doer models, account growth, capture, proposal development, and client relationship management
- Experience partnering with business development leaders, account leaders, and subject matter experts to build capability aligned to growth priorities
- Proven ability to translate revenue, pipeline, and growth objectives into targeted learning and performance solutions
- Experience facilitating workshops, skill labs, boot camps, coaching programs, and leadership sessions for business and client-facing professionals
- Experience designing experiential learning, simulations, practice opportunities, and on-the-job reinforcement strategies
- Demonstrated success leading enterprise learning, skills, or capability-building initiatives
- Experience managing complex programs, stakeholder collaboration, SME engagement. and cross-functional partnerships
- Ability to operate strategically while also owning hands-on design and delivery
- Experience with modern learning platforms (e.g., Viva Learning) and AI-enabled learning tools
- Experience building and delivering enterprise-scale learning programs or academies
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