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Job Description Position Title:  Director of Training and Development Company:  Valor Protection Safety Agency Reports To:  Chief Executive Safety Officer or Executive Leadership Employment Type:  Full Time Compensation:  $80,000 annually Position Summary The Director of Training and Development is responsible for building, leading, and executing the agency’s full training and development function across all areas of operations. This role exists to strengthen officer readiness, improve field performance, reduce preventable turnover, protect client confidence, and ensure that all personnel are trained, developed, and held to the standards of Valor Protection Safety Agency. This is a working leadership role for a builder. The Director of Training and Development will not simply manage scheduled trainings. This leader will be responsible for creating the training structure, developing systems, improving onboarding, increasing field preparedness, driving accountability, supporting compliance, and helping the agency establish a stronger culture of readiness, development, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate is both strategic and practical. They must be able to develop training systems, create curriculum, organize documentation, coach staff, support supervisors, and step into the field when necessary to assess performance gaps and strengthen execution. Essential Purpose of the Role The purpose of this position is to create and lead a training and development division that supports the agency’s growth, improves service quality, strengthens officer confidence, and ensures consistency across all sites, contracts, and personnel assignments. This leader will serve as the agency’s primary authority on training, onboarding, retraining, field development, and training accountability. Key Responsibilities Training Leadership and Department Development Lead the development and structure of the agency’s training and development function Build and implement a centralized training framework that supports all agency divisions, sites, and specialty assignments Establish agency wide training expectations, standards, and developmental processes Serve as the lead point of accountability for training quality, readiness standards, and professional development systems Create a long term training strategy that supports operational growth, stronger service delivery, and leadership development across the agency Onboarding and New Hire Development Develop and oversee a complete onboarding and orientation process for new officers and team members Create structured onboarding pathways that ensure employees receive proper introduction, preparation, role clarity, and performance expectations Design and manage field readiness checklists, post assignment preparation tools, and developmental milestones for new hires Ensure officers are properly prepared before independent deployment to client sites and assignments Identify weaknesses in the current onboarding process and implement improvements that increase confidence, consistency, and retention Training Program Development Design, organize, and maintain agency training materials, lesson plans, officer development content, presentations, practical exercises, and assessments Create training programs in areas such as professionalism, patrol practices, officer presence, report writing, customer service, de escalation, field awareness, emergency response, policy adherence, post execution, and client interaction Develop training content for school safety personnel, residential officers, hospitality assignments, special event coverage, patrol operations, supervisors, and future leaders Ensure all training content is professional, relevant, operationally useful, and aligned with agency standards and values Field Training and Performance Reinforcement Conduct field visits, training audits, observation reviews, and post assessments to evaluate off