About the Role
Title: Manager, Training, Pre-Health & Nursing
Location: Washington United States
Job Description:
Job Title
Manager, Training, Pre-Health & Nursing
Job Description
For more than 80 years, Kaplan has been a trailblazer in education and professional advancement. We are a global company at the intersection of education and technology, focused on collaboration, innovation, and creativity to deliver a best-in-class educational experience and make Kaplan a great place to work.
The future of education is here and we are eager to work alongside those who want to make a positive impact and inspire change in the world around them.
The Manager, Training, Pre-Health & Nursing is a critical role in bridging content development, operational execution, teacher communication, and stakeholder collaboration to ensure Kaplan’s teacher training initiatives are delivered with precision and impact. The role drives excellent instruction by designing, developing, and delivering comprehensive training experiences that empower instructors to engage students effectively and ensure positive learning outcomes. Working closely with content and product development teams, this role focuses on creating tools and resources that help instructors bring content to life in engaging ways. Success is measured through KPIs such as Net Promoter Score (NPS), Teacher Ratings, and student engagement outcomes.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver comprehensive teacher training materials, tools, and resources that support instructors in engaging students effectively across Kaplan’s live instruction modalities, including In Person, 1:1, and Live Online.
- Collaborate with content and product development teams to ensure timely and high-quality resources are available for instructors during product updates and launches.
- Oversee the coordination and execution of training programs and teacher-facing communications to ensure instructors are well-prepared to deliver exceptional student learning experiences.
- Lead and manage a team of part-time Adjunct Teacher Trainers to create and deliver impactful live, recorded, and written training experiences.
- Foster strong relationships with stakeholders across Academics, Product, and Content teams to ensure alignment, effective communication, and seamless implementation of changes in live instruction.
- Collect and analyze feedback from instructors and stakeholders to inform continuous improvement of training programs and live student experiences.
- Leverage data, including student and teacher feedback and course outcomes, to refine training processes and optimize instructor performance.
- Collaborate with the Teacher Training & Development team to identify and implement opportunities to improve the efficiency, quality, and scalability of training delivery.
- Maintain and enhance centralized resource repositories to minimize faculty-created content and drive standardization across programs, in partnership with product owners.
- Stay informed about best practices in live instruction and adult learning to continually enhance training strategies.
- Align training initiatives with broader business objectives and product goals, ensuring that teacher development efforts directly contribute to excellent student outcomes and a superior learning experience.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree
- 1+ years experience teaching a test preparation product
- Demonstrated project management experience
- Ability to analyze data and make data based decisions
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Workspace products, and similar collaboration tools.
- Ability to thrive in an innovative, creative, and teamwork-oriented professional environment
- Ability to work extended hours in order to meet business objectives (some evening and weekend hours required)
- Embracive of a fast-paced working environment with evolving job responsibilities
- Ability to work effectively in a dispersed workforce
- Coding experience with html, mediawiki or CSS
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience teaching the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is strongly preferred
- People management experience preferred
- A/V production or on-camera teaching experience preferred
- Experience creating or supporting diversity & inclusion training or initiatives strongly preferred
- Experience working with underrepresented populations strongly preferred
- Experience teaching online is strongly preferred
- Management experience preferred
- Demonstrated mastery of Excel, Google products, and/or coding