Learning & Development Specialist

About the Company

RNGD is a rapidly scaling organization emerging as a nationally recognized leader in construction through our unique Renegade mindset focused on innovation, creativity, and culture. The team is made up of a highly engaged group of seasoned professionals and emerging leaders. We are creators who believe that what we build drives the growth of our cities and that to fulfill our mission, we must constantly challenge the old way of doing things. Headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, we thrive on building communities, building teams, building leaders, and growing the business throughout the Southeast region with additional offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Learning & Development Specialist that will support the day-to-day operations of Renegade Academy and help ensure learning programs are organized, accessible, accurately documented, and delivered smoothly. Success in this role requires strong organization, attention to detail, technology aptitude, responsive learner support, clear communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

This role coordinates training schedules and logistics, administers the learning management system, maintains learning, apprenticeship, and certification records, and provides administrative support across Academy programs. The Learning and Development Specialist works across all Renegade Academy development portfolios and serves as a key point of coordination between Learning Managers, employees, instructors, subject matter experts, vendors, and business partners.

Core Responsibilities

Learning Administration and Coordination

Schedule instructor-led, virtual, and hands-on training across Renegade Academy

Manage registrations, enrollments, calendars, attendance, and completion

Coordinate classrooms, facilities, equipment, materials, and technology needed for training delivery.

Send participant communications, reminders, updates, and follow-up

Support instructors and facilitators before, during, and after

Coordinate cancellations, rescheduling, and make-up

Maintain the master Renegade Academy learning

Learning Management System Administration

Create and maintain courses, learning paths, sessions, groups, assignments, and enrollments within Renegade

Maintain accurate employee learning records and completion

Support course configuration, catalog organization, naming conventions, and established Academy standards.

Troubleshoot routine learner access and platform issues and escalate technical concerns when needed.

Support testing of new learning management system features, updates, and

Serve as a primary point of contact for employee and manager learning management system

Apprenticeship and Certification Management

Maintain apprentice enrollment, progression, required hours, competencies, and supporting

Coordinate apprenticeship records with instructors, supervisors, and program

Maintain certification, credential, and practical-evaluation

Track required documentation, expiration dates, milestones, and outstanding

Support NCCER and other apprenticeship and certification

Ensure apprenticeship and certification records remain complete, accurate, organized, and audit-ready.

Program and Learner Support

Provide support to Learning Managers across Renegade Academy development

Prepare participant materials, rosters, reports, evaluations, and training

Coordinate instructors, subject matter experts, vendors, participants, and business partners as needed.

Track program milestones and follow up on outstanding

Help employees and managers navigate Academy programs, requirements, systems, and resources.

Provide timely and responsive support that contributes to a positive learning

Reporting and Records

Maintain accurate learning, attendance, completion, certification, apprenticeship, and program records.

Produce routine reports on participation, completion, learning hours, apprenticeship progress, and other Academy metrics.

Support data collection for program evaluation and Renegade Academy

Identify missing, incomplete, or inconsistent records and coordinate timely

Provide Learning Managers and program leaders with reliable information needed to monitor participation, progress, and outstanding requirements.

Academy Operations and Process Improvement

Support Academy communications, documentation, processes, and standard operating

Assist with vendor coordination, invoices, purchase requests, materials, and maintain organized digital files, templates, forms, and program

Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve Academy administrative

Support the implementation and testing of new administrative workflows and

Provide coordination support for new Renegade Academy initiatives as priorities evolve

Core Competencies

RNGD Values Alignment

Exemplifies RNGD’s core values:

Renegade Mentality

Sweep Floors

Build Together

Honor Promises

Learning Operations and Program Support

Coordinates training schedules, registrations, facilities, materials, technology, instructors, and participant communications to keep Academy programs running

Honors Promises through dependable follow-through, timely communication, and accurate completion tracking.

Learning Systems and Technology

Administers learning management system functions accurately and resolves routine learner and manager issues.

Demonstrates a Renegade Mentality by embracing new technology and identifying practical ways to simplify and improve Academy systems and workflows.

Records, Reporting, and Compliance

Maintains complete, accurate, organized, and audit-ready learning, apprenticeship, certification, attendance, and completion records.

Demonstrates the Sweep Floors mindset by taking ownership of details and correcting missing or inconsistent information.

Learner Support and Communication

Provides responsive assistance and communicates schedules, requirements, reminders, and next steps clearly to employees, managers, instructors, and

Honors Promises by providing stakeholders with reliable information, timely support, and consistent follow-through.

Cross-Functional Coordination and Process Improvement

Coordinates effectively with Learning Managers, employees, instructors, supervisors, subject matter experts, vendors, and business

Builds Together by supporting shared priorities and demonstrates a Renegade Mentality by identifying opportunities to improve the consistency and efficiency of Academy

RNGD is an Equal Opportunity Employer.