Senior Learning & Development Lead
Wider Circle is a mission-driven healthcare organization working to improve health outcomes for older adults and complex populations by addressing social and clinical barriers to care. Through trusted relationships and community-based support, we partner with health plans and local organizations to help members navigate healthcare, stay engaged in care, and live healthier lives.
We are building a permanent clinical program that integrates physicians, care advocates, and community support teams into a coordinated, human approach to care and we need someone to make sure every person on that team is set up to deliver exceptional care from day one.
We're looking for a Senior Learning & Development Lead who is equal parts instructional designer, facilitator, and program owner. You'll design and run the onboarding, training, and ongoing enablement experience for our Care Advocates and provide ad hoc support for physician onboarding as our clinical team grows. Reporting into HR, you'll partner closely with Clinical Operations and our broader L&D team.
Healthcare context matters here. Our work touches clinical workflows, health plan compliance requirements, billing documentation, and the lives of medically complex members. We're not looking for someone who will spend their first six months learning what a Care Advocate actually does we want someone already familiar with healthcare L&D who can hit the ground building.
This is a role for a proactive collaborator who is comfortable and excited to work across departments. You don't wait to be asked you see what's missing and go after it. You'll own TalentLMS end-to-end, develop high-quality learning content from scratch, and track onboarding readiness so closely that you know a new hire is falling behind on Day 3 and are able to intervene on Day 4.
Your north star: drive the behavior changes that help our Care Advocates deliver exceptional member care while consistently meeting documentation and compliance requirements. Success will be measured by onboarding readiness, time-to-productivity, team Net Promoter Score, quality metrics, and retention.
Responsibilities
Here's roughly how we expect your time to break down not as a rigid rulebook, but as an honest signal of where this role lives:
- Curriculum Design & Content Creation
- Design, develop, and maintain engaging training programs for Care Advocates and other roles across onboarding, systems, compliance, and ongoing development
- Build high-quality e-learning modules, videos, presentations, job aids, and assessments using adult learning principles and inclusive design standards
- Maintain an up-to-date Care Advocate handbook covering services, documentation expectations, scripting, escalation pathways, and partner-specific requirements
- Maintain a centralized knowledge base of SOPs, how-to documentation, and training materials keeping everything accurate, on-brand, and easy to find
- Iterate the training curriculum as the program evolves what works in pilot may need to change at scale
- Facilitation
- Lead engaging virtual onboarding sessions, professional development workshops, and compliance training for a range of audiences from frontline Care Advocates to clinical staff
- Foster interactive learning environments that encourage participation, real-world application, and continuous feedback
- Serve as the primary internal point of contact for Care Advocates during and after onboarding answer questions, provide coaching, and monitor engagement and quality
- LMS & Systems Administration
- Own Care Delivery content on TalentLMS end-to-end: build and organize courses, manage enrollments and learning paths, configure assessments and certifications, troubleshoot issues, and ensure a smooth learner experience
- Maintain accurate learner records and ensure audit-ready documentation for all digital learning activity
- Pull reporting and surface insights on completion, engagement, and readiness proactively, not reactively
- Compliance & Certification Tracking
- Oversee compliance training programs and certification requirements
- Ensure team members meet the expectations of our health plan partners, including documentation standards, quality benchmarks, and program-specific requirements
- Maintain records and processes that hold up to regulatory and organizational audits
- SME Partnership & Collaboration
- Partner with Clinical Operations SMEs and team leads to keep training materials aligned with current workflows, state and federal compliance standards, and performance goals
- Collaborate with the broader L&D team on curriculum standards, learning design best practices, and shared infrastructure
- Data, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Track and report onboarding readiness for every new hire: module completion, competency checkpoints, and certification status surface risks before they become problems
- Compile and analyze training metrics to assess learning effectiveness, certification completion, and engagement; deliver actionable insights to leadership
- Respond to coaching requests at the individual and team level; escalate programmatic gaps and partner with leadership on solutions
- Identify skill gaps through data, observation, and feedback; recommend scalable solutions to improve learner outcomes and organizational alignment
- Change Management & Communications
- Support change management and communications for the care team when workflows, scripts, or policies change, you help make sure everyone knows and has what they need to adopt the change
- Build trusting, honest relationships across a diverse team and lead difficult 1:1 conversations when needed