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Training & Development Manager - Psychometric/Evaluation Focus

Position Overview

The Training & Development Manager will lead large-scale curriculum design, implementation, and training-effectiveness evaluation activities supporting FEMA’s FQS and NDEMU programs. This individual will integrate instructional-systems design, educational assessment, psychometric validation, and quantitative evaluation methods throughout the training-development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage large-scale curriculum-development, course-revision, modernization, and training-evaluation activities.
• Coordinate instructional designers, psychometric specialists, technical developers, editors, and emergency-management SMEs.
• Oversee Training Needs Assessments and gap analyses to identify performance deficiencies and determine appropriate training or non-training solutions.
• Ensure course goals, content, activities, learning objectives, and assessments are properly aligned.
• Ensure courses include measurable Terminal and Enabling Learning Objectives tied to approved performance gaps, operational needs, competencies, behaviors, or position tasks.
• Apply instructional-design and adult-learning principles to classroom, virtual instructor-led, and self-paced training.
• Ensure the appropriate Bloom’s Taxonomy level is applied based on course complexity and learner expectations.
• Integrate quantitative evaluation frameworks into curriculum-development and program-implementation activities.
• Oversee psychometric validation of learning outcomes, test banks, performance assessments, and training-effectiveness measures.
• Design and oversee end-of-course evaluations that assess Kirkpatrick Levels 1 and 2.
• Evaluate learner-performance data, feedback, and assessment results to determine training effectiveness and recommend improvements.
• Oversee development of course maps, objective crosswalks, instructional materials, experiential learning activities, rubrics, test banks, and learner-support resources.
• Support Alpha, Beta, and pilot deliveries and coordinate the collection, analysis, and implementation of instructor and learner feedback.
• Ensure courses provide appropriate interactivity and active-learning opportunities for instructor-led, virtual, and asynchronous delivery.
• Monitor curriculum quality, learner experience, logical sequencing, pacing, clarity, accessibility, and instructional usability.
• Coordinate with FEMA/NDEMU representatives, cadre/program SMEs, and other stakeholders throughout design, development, testing, and approval.
• Maintain documentation demonstrating assessment alignment, evaluation results, feedback resolution, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications/Experience

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Instructional Systems Design, Adult Education, Human Resource Development, Educational Psychology, or a related field.
• At least five years of experience managing large-scale curriculum design, program implementation, and training-effectiveness evaluation.
• Coursework or practical experience in educational-assessment design, psychometric validation of learning outcomes, and performance-evaluation methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or doctoral degree with a dual focus or specialization in Instructional Systems and Educational Assessment/Psychometrics.
• Eight or more years of experience leading training programs that include quantitative evaluation frameworks and high-stakes testing components.

Required Skills

• Instructional-systems design
• Curriculum-development management
• Educational assessment and psychometric evaluation
• Training Needs Assessment and gap analysis
• Adult-learning principles
• Kirkpatrick evaluation methodology
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Learning-objective and assessment alignment
• Quantitative performance evaluation
• Alpha, Beta, and pilot-test coordination
• Cross-functional team leadership
• Stakeholder facilitation
• Training-quality assurance
• Strong written and verbal communication

Certification

No specific professional certification is identified as mandatory.

Clearance/Security

• Must successfully complete a FEMA public trust background investigation.
• Must complete required FEMA/DHS privacy, records management, insider-threat awareness, and cybersecurity-awareness training.
• Must safeguard unclassified but security-sensitive information.

Place of Performance

Primarily at the contractor’s facilities or virtually. Work may also be performed at FEMA Headquarters or NDEMU in Emmitsburg, Maryland, as required. Contract travel is not required.