Training and Development Specialist

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST
Human Resources Division
Salem, Oregon
SAIF Corporation is a company of high performing employees. And that’s no accident.

SAIF Corporation, the leading workers’ compensation insurance provider in Oregon, is a not-for-profit, state-chartered workers’ compensation insurance company. SAIF Corporation has been helping Oregon businesses and workers for more than 90 years.

A key element of our business model is to attract, train, and retain the very best people in our business. Our commitment to maintaining SAIF’s position as an employer of choice is evident throughout our human resource practices, including recruitment, our total compensation program, employee benefits, employee relations, and training and development. Once we’ve hired the best candidates possible, we provide them with an impressive array of tools and learning resources to help ensure their long-term success at SAIF.

That’s where you’d fit in. The training and development team at SAIF designs and delivers specialized training to our employees and external customers. As a member of this team, you will focus your efforts on developing and honing employees’ skills in communications, customer service, problem-solving, creative thinking, presentations, conflict resolution, and meeting management. You will consult with supervisors and employees to foster team development; facilitate process improvement, planning, and goal-setting; and lead new employee orientation. In addition, you will have an opportunity to expand your training expertise into a variety of supervisory and management training topics.

How does SAIF attract so many high performing employees? It goes beyond our training and development, total compensation, and employee relations programs. SAIF is an exhilarating place to work because of our innovative culture and our unique charter -- we are driven not by profit, but by a desire to help Oregon’s workers, employers, and economy.
REQUIREMENTS
Does this pique your interest? Then we should talk. If you’re articulate and people-savvy, and have a bachelor’s degree and significant experience designing, developing, and delivering adult training curricula in a business setting using a wide variety of traditional and non-traditional techniques, we’d like to hear from you. Excellent computer skills are a must. If you have completed advanced college-level coursework or professional workshops in adult learning, group dynamics and facilitation, and have experience in a bilingual or cross-cultural setting, that’s even better.

Please read the rest of the detailed job announcement on our website at www.saif. com. Then, to tell us about yourself and why you’d like to join our claims team, please complete and submit the electronic application at the end of the job announcement.

To receive consideration, the following materials must be received in our Human Resources Division by 12:00 pm on Monday, October 2, 2006:SAIF Application for Employment
Resume
Cover letter
A list of trainings that you have conducted in the past five years including a brief description of the length, content, and audience.