Sentara Health
Director, Learning
🇺🇸 Remote - Virginia Beach, VA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Learning & Development
🗓️ July 3rd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Sentara Health is hiring a Director, Learning. This role leads the development and delivery of enterprise-wide learning programs, collaborating with healthcare leaders and subject matter experts to create impactful training that supports organizational goals, regulatory compliance, and a culture of excellence and inclusion. The Director also drives learning analytics, change management initiatives, and supports leadership development across multiple healthcare settings.
Highlights
- Leads enterprise-wide colleague development programs including leadership and role-based learning.
- Collaborates with business units to address learning needs and regulatory requirements.
- Uses data and learning analytics to measure impact and improve training effectiveness.
- Supports change management efforts for healthcare and health plan leaders.
- Requires bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) in relevant fields and leadership experience in healthcare learning.
- Expertise in instructional design, adult learning principles, and organizational effectiveness.
- Preferred qualifications include experience in complex healthcare systems, data-driven decision-making, and change management certification.
- Familiarity with healthcare regulations, quality programs, and payer/provider dynamics.
- Compensation includes potential annual discretionary bonuses, comprehensive benefits, tuition assistance, student debt pay down, and certification reimbursements.
- Works collaboratively with clinical, operational, and talent teams to enhance learning culture supporting more than 30,000 employees and over 1 million health plan members.
Director, Learning Full Description
Director, Learning
Remote
Virginia Beach, VA
Full time
City/StateVirginia Beach, VA
Work ShiftFirst (Days)
Overview:
Sentara Health is seeking to hire a qualified individual to join our team as Director, Learning.
Position Status: Full-time, Day Shift
Position Location: This position is remote.
Standard Working Hours: 8:00AM to 5:00PM (ET).
Sentara Health is seeking to hire a qualified individual to join our team as Director, Learning.
Position Status: Full-time, Day Shift
Position Location: This position is remote.
Standard Working Hours: 8:00AM to 5:00PM (ET).
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in education, Organizational Development, Human Resources, Healthcare Administration, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
- Experience in learning and development, including leadership experience in healthcare or health plan setting.
- Demonstrated expertise in instructional design, adult learning principles, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness.
Expectations for this Role:
Sentara Health is seeking a Director, Learning.
As a key member of the Talent Management team, the Director of Learning will collaborate with healthcare and health plan leaders, clinical and operational subject matter experts, and internal training teams to design and deliver impactful, high-quality learning experiences that support a culture of excellence, compassion, and compliance.
This role leads the team responsible for enterprise-wide colleague development programs, including leadership development, high-potential programs, and role-based learning for individual contributors, people leaders, and senior executives across ambulatory, acute/post-acute, corporate, and health plan settings.
The Director of Learning partners with business units to address operational learning needs and regulatory requirements, using data and outcomes-based insights to measure impact, improve effectiveness, and ensure alignment with organizational goals and industry standards.
In addition, the Director plays a critical role in advancing a culture of belonging and growth through inclusive, engaging learning experiences that reflect our mission to serve members, patients, and communities.
In collaboration with other Talent teams, this role also leads learning-related change management efforts—supporting healthcare and health plan leaders in navigating change, communicating effectively, reducing resistance, and driving successful adoption of new systems, processes, and care models.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading enterprise learning initiatives in complex, matrixed healthcare systems.
- Proven ability to use data and learning analytics to drive decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Strong interpersonal, consulting, and communication skills, with the ability to influence leaders at all levels.
- Familiarity with healthcare industry regulations, quality programs, and payer/provider dynamics.
- Change management certification (e.g., Prosci) or experience leading change initiatives preferred.
Sentara Health Overview
Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 130 years in pursuit of its mission - "We improve health every day." Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and among the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, with 30,000 employees, 12 hospitals in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, and the Sentara Health Plans division which serves more than 1 million members in Virginia and Florida. Sentara is recognized nationally for clinical quality and safety and is strategically focused on innovation and creating an extraordinary health care experience for our patients and members. Sentara was named to IBM Watson Health's "Top 15 Health Systems" (2021, 2018), and was recognized by Forbes as a "Best Employer for New Grads" (2022), "Best Employer for Veterans" (2022), and "Best Employer for Women" (2020).
Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
•Pet Insurance
•Legal Resources Plan
•Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
•Legal Resources Plan
•Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.
For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
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