Trainer Job Description

TRAINER JOB DESCRIPTION

Directions: Identify which of the following administrative roles and responsibilities best reflect your current or desired position. What percentage of the trainer’s time should be spent outside the classroom and not involved in designing or presenting training programs?

Section 1: Trainer Roles and Responsibilities

Identify the amount of time spent on each of these activities:

__Designing training programs

__Presenting classroom or on-the-job training

__Building a team with those who provide training in the organization

__Participating in human resource planning to meet business needs

__Handling training administration details (meeting set-up, scheduling, confirmation, materials duplication, order supplies, etc.)

__Marketing training internally

__Keeping statistics about the events and performance for training in the organization

__Preparing and monitoring the training budget or participating in buying and budgeting decisions

__Evaluating the effectiveness of training done in the organization

Section 2: Tasks, Skills, and Abilities

Which of the following knowledge or skills are needed for the training professional’s roles and responsibilities?

__ Identify training issues related to a business need

__ Distinguish between training needs and wants

__ Help line managers/supervisors identify training needs

__ Get management support for training solutions

__ Help supervisors and managers set performance standards

__ Identify who needs training

__ Establish criteria to measure the results of training

__ Identify the cost of training

__ Select the best resource to provide training

__ Present a training plan to management and gain approval

__ Set objectives for training events

__ Identify external resources for training programs

__ Establish criteria for buying packaged training programs and training videos

__ Identify criteria for reviewing external training proposals

__ Interview, select, negotiate with, hire, and monitor external consultants

__ Select subject matter experts who will conduct training

__ Coach subject matter experts to deliver training

__ Maintain a corporate library and/or resource center with up-to-date information

__ Purchase training equipment (projectors, hardware, software, etc.)

__ Select and administer assessment instruments or inventories

__ Prepare training announcements, course catalogs, and brochures

__ Create benefit statements to help “sell” training internally

__ Create a partnership with supervisors to avoid “no shows” at training events

__ Create newsletters, bulletin boards, and e-mail training announcements

__ Use a variety of methods to publicize training events

__ Use data collection and graphics to demonstrate training results

__ Use recognition tools for those who support training

__ Publicize the variety of services available from the training function

__ Conduct evaluation with supervisors following training events

__ Use marketing information to develop future training plans

__ Run trainee registration and confirmation systems

__ Monitor tuition reimbursement programs

__ Schedule training

__ Prepare training rooms for instruction

__ Negotiate with hotels for off-site meeting rooms

__ Make travel arrangements for instructors and training participants

__ Coordinate off-site facility arrangements

__ Set a standard (style guide) for printed training materials

__ Duplicate and inventory training materials

__ Order training supplies and maintain audio-visual equipment

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