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Learning and Development Consultant roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations when tied to a directly related degree in instructional design, education, or organizational psychology. Employers file a Labor Condition Application before sponsorship begins, and many large corporate training teams have active H-1B filing histories.
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The Senior Learning & Development Consultant, AI Fluency Enablement, leads enterprise initiatives that build colleague capability and accelerate responsible AI adoption across Huntington.
Using expertise in learning strategy, performance consulting, workforce capability, change adoption, knowledge curation, and AI enablement, this role turns enterprise AI priorities into practical solutions that help colleagues use AI effectively in their daily work.
The consultant partners across AI Transformation, business leadership, Talent, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Communications, and a network of subject matter experts, facilitators, and champions. The role owns enablement strategy, solution design, adoption support, content practices, and measurement; it does not define enterprise AI strategy, set governance standards, select AI technologies, or lead business-segment transformation.
Primary Responsibilities
AI Fluency Strategy & Solutions
- Lead enterprise AI Fluency initiatives across business segments and stakeholder groups.
- Diagnose business, performance, and workforce needs, then recommend appropriate learning and non-learning solutions.
- Design and maintain scalable resources such as facilitation guides, toolkits, playbooks, communications, job aids, prompt libraries, and self-service learning tools.
- Partner with AI experts to keep solutions current, and integrate AI Fluency into onboarding, leadership enablement, and workforce initiatives.
Content & Knowledge Enablement
- Establish standards and lifecycle practices for AI Fluency resources, prompt libraries, use cases, playbooks, and job aids.
- Partner with content owners and subject matter experts to improve accuracy, consistency, quality, and accessibility.
- Organize content so colleagues can find and use it through enterprise search, Copilot, and learning platforms.
- Promote content practices that improve reuse, reduce duplication, and strengthen the colleague experience.
Stakeholder Consulting & Influence
- Serve as a trusted consultant to AI Transformation Directors, Craft Owners, business leaders, and enterprise stakeholders.
- Architect and recommend scalable learning and non-learning solutions that address enterprise and local business needs.
- Influence leaders, build alignment across differing priorities, and communicate recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Navigate ambiguity and balance business priorities, colleague readiness, risk, and available resources when recommending solutions.
Adoption & Community Enablement
- Lead adoption strategies that build awareness, confidence, participation, and responsible use of AI.
- Address adoption barriers through learning, communication, performance support, and reinforcement that help colleagues sustain new ways of working.
- Build communities of practice, champion networks, and peer-learning opportunities that support local adoption and share successful use cases.
- Equip leaders, facilitators, champions, and business partners with guidance, resources, and coaching.
Measurement & Continuous Improvement
- Define measures that connect learning, capability, adoption, and behavior change to business priorities and outcomes.
- Use quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate effectiveness, identify barriers and opportunities, and demonstrate value.
- Prepare clear, executive-ready progress updates and recommendations.
- Recommend improvements to solutions, communications, resources, and content practices based on evidence and stakeholder feedback.
We are looking for a strategic, collaborative consultant who can turn emerging AI possibilities into practical learning, adoption, and workforce solutions.
Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent related experience.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Enablement, Change Management, or a related discipline, with demonstrated business acumen and experience translating business priorities, processes, and risk considerations into practical solutions.
Preferred
- Demonstrated performance-consulting experience diagnosing business and workforce needs, influencing leaders and stakeholders, and architecting scalable learning and non-learning solutions from discovery through implementation.
- Experience independently leading multiple complex, cross-functional initiatives through planning, stakeholder alignment, risk management, implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated expertise applying adult learning, workforce capability, organizational development, systems thinking, and change-adoption practices to complex business challenges.
- Experience defining success measures and using data and stakeholder insights to evaluate capability, adoption, behavior change, and business impact.
- Demonstrated experience applying generative AI tools and leading AI capability-building, workforce enablement, or adoption initiatives within responsible-use, risk, privacy, and governance expectations.
- Strong consulting, facilitation, written communication, presentation, and executive-influence skills.
- Advanced expertise in generative AI enablement, role-based capability development, AI-supported work practices, and enterprise-scale adoption.
- Experience with learning management systems, digital learning platforms, Microsoft 365, and modern authoring tools.
- Experience building communities of practice, champion networks, or peer-learning ecosystems.
- Experience with knowledge curation, content governance, or AI-ready content practices.
- Experience in financial services or another regulated industry; relevant change-management, project-management, learning, or organizational-development certification is a plus.
LI-NG1
LI-Onsite
Exempt Status: Yes
Workplace Type:
Office
Our Approach to Office Workplace Type
Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.
Compensation Range:
The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and education. Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan. In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Note to Agency Recruiters: Huntington will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. All unsolicited resumes sent to any Huntington colleagues, directly or indirectly, will be considered Huntington property. Recruiting agencies must have a valid, written and fully executed Master Service Agreement and Statement of Work for consideration.
Description
Position Summary
The Senior Learning & Development Consultant, AI Fluency Enablement, leads enterprise initiatives that build colleague capability and accelerate responsible AI adoption across Huntington.
Using expertise in learning strategy, performance consulting, workforce capability, change adoption, knowledge curation, and AI enablement, this role turns enterprise AI priorities into practical solutions that help colleagues use AI effectively in their daily work.
The consultant partners across AI Transformation, business leadership, Talent, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Communications, and a network of subject matter experts, facilitators, and champions. The role owns enablement strategy, solution design, adoption support, content practices, and measurement; it does not define enterprise AI strategy, set governance standards, select AI technologies, or lead business-segment transformation.
Primary Responsibilities
AI Fluency Strategy & Solutions
- Lead enterprise AI Fluency initiatives across business segments and stakeholder groups.
- Diagnose business, performance, and workforce needs, then recommend appropriate learning and non-learning solutions.
- Design and maintain scalable resources such as facilitation guides, toolkits, playbooks, communications, job aids, prompt libraries, and self-service learning tools.
- Partner with AI experts to keep solutions current, and integrate AI Fluency into onboarding, leadership enablement, and workforce initiatives.
Content & Knowledge Enablement
- Establish standards and lifecycle practices for AI Fluency resources, prompt libraries, use cases, playbooks, and job aids.
- Partner with content owners and subject matter experts to improve accuracy, consistency, quality, and accessibility.
- Organize content so colleagues can find and use it through enterprise search, Copilot, and learning platforms.
- Promote content practices that improve reuse, reduce duplication, and strengthen the colleague experience.
Stakeholder Consulting & Influence
- Serve as a trusted consultant to AI Transformation Directors, Craft Owners, business leaders, and enterprise stakeholders.
- Architect and recommend scalable learning and non-learning solutions that address enterprise and local business needs.
- Influence leaders, build alignment across differing priorities, and communicate recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Navigate ambiguity and balance business priorities, colleague readiness, risk, and available resources when recommending solutions.
Adoption & Community Enablement
- Lead adoption strategies that build awareness, confidence, participation, and responsible use of AI.
- Address adoption barriers through learning, communication, performance support, and reinforcement that help colleagues sustain new ways of working.
- Build communities of practice, champion networks, and peer-learning opportunities that support local adoption and share successful use cases.
- Equip leaders, facilitators, champions, and business partners with guidance, resources, and coaching.
Measurement & Continuous Improvement
- Define measures that connect learning, capability, adoption, and behavior change to business priorities and outcomes.
- Use quantitative and qualitative data to evaluate effectiveness, identify barriers and opportunities, and demonstrate value.
- Prepare clear, executive-ready progress updates and recommendations.
- Recommend improvements to solutions, communications, resources, and content practices based on evidence and stakeholder feedback.
We are looking for a strategic, collaborative consultant who can turn emerging AI possibilities into practical learning, adoption, and workforce solutions.
Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent related experience.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Workforce Enablement, Change Management, or a related discipline, with demonstrated business acumen and experience translating business priorities, processes, and risk considerations into practical solutions.
Preferred
- Demonstrated performance-consulting experience diagnosing business and workforce needs, influencing leaders and stakeholders, and architecting scalable learning and non-learning solutions from discovery through implementation.
- Experience independently leading multiple complex, cross-functional initiatives through planning, stakeholder alignment, risk management, implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated expertise applying adult learning, workforce capability, organizational development, systems thinking, and change-adoption practices to complex business challenges.
- Experience defining success measures and using data and stakeholder insights to evaluate capability, adoption, behavior change, and business impact.
- Demonstrated experience applying generative AI tools and leading AI capability-building, workforce enablement, or adoption initiatives within responsible-use, risk, privacy, and governance expectations.
- Strong consulting, facilitation, written communication, presentation, and executive-influence skills.
- Advanced expertise in generative AI enablement, role-based capability development, AI-supported work practices, and enterprise-scale adoption.
- Experience with learning management systems, digital learning platforms, Microsoft 365, and modern authoring tools.
- Experience building communities of practice, champion networks, or peer-learning ecosystems.
- Experience with knowledge curation, content governance, or AI-ready content practices.
- Experience in financial services or another regulated industry; relevant change-management, project-management, learning, or organizational-development certification is a plus.
LI-NG1
LI-Onsite
Exempt Status: Yes
Workplace Type:
Office
Our Approach to Office Workplace Type
Certain positions outside our branch network may be eligible for a flexible work arrangement. We’re combining the best of both worlds: in-office and work from home. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. Remote roles will also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for moments that matter. Specific work arrangements will be provided by the hiring team.
Compensation Range:
The compensation range represents the anticipated low and high end of the base compensation range for this position. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and education. Colleagues in this position are also eligible to participate in an applicable incentive compensation plan. In addition, Huntington provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plan, paid leave programs, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).
Huntington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Note to Agency Recruiters: Huntington will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. All unsolicited resumes sent to any Huntington colleagues, directly or indirectly, will be considered Huntington property. Recruiting agencies must have a valid, written and fully executed Master Service Agreement and Statement of Work for consideration.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Learning and Development Consultant
Align your degree to instructional design
H-1B eligibility hinges on a direct connection between your degree field and the L&D role. A degree in instructional design, organizational psychology, or education typically satisfies specialty occupation requirements more cleanly than a general business degree.
Target employers with PERM labor certification history
Corporate universities, large healthcare systems, and professional services firms regularly sponsor L&D Consultants through PERM for green cards. Search OFLC public disclosure data to identify employers who have filed for this occupation before, not just those who post sponsorship-friendly job ads.
Use O*NET to frame your specialty occupation case
O*NET lists the knowledge domains and education requirements for training and development specialists. When your resume and cover letter mirror that occupational profile, it strengthens the employer's specialty occupation justification in the LCA and I-129 petition.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
The LCA requires your offered wage to meet the DOL prevailing wage for your location and job title. Run the OFLC Wage Search using the correct SOC code before you negotiate, so you can confirm the offer clears the threshold your employer must certify.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate's verified employer database
Search Migrate Mate to browse L&D roles at employers with confirmed LCA filing history. That filters out postings from companies that say they're open to sponsorship but have never filed, saving you weeks of outreach to dead ends.
Get your I-129 petition filed before cap deadline
H-1B petitions for cap-subject employers must be filed after USCIS selection in the annual registration process. Confirm your employer's timeline in writing well before April, since delays in gathering LCA certification or internal HR approvals routinely push candidates past the filing window.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Learning and Development Consultant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
It can, but the connection between your degree and the specific role must be clear. A position focused on curriculum design, needs analysis, or instructional systems development is easier to defend as a specialty occupation than a generalist training coordinator title. USCIS scrutinizes L&D roles more closely when the job description allows any bachelor's degree field, so employers benefit from tightening the job requirements to a directly related discipline.
Which visa types are realistic for L&D Consultants seeking sponsorship?
H-1B is the primary path for most L&D Consultants. Australian citizens can pursue the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and a cap that has never been exhausted. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN visa if the role maps to an eligible USMCA profession. For longer-term stays, employers can sponsor through the EB-2 or EB-3 green card categories using PERM labor certification, which is common in large corporate training functions.
What degree does a Learning and Development Consultant typically need for visa sponsorship?
A bachelor's degree in instructional design, education, organizational psychology, human resources, or a closely related field is standard. Degrees in communications or psychology can work if the coursework aligns with adult learning theory or training methodology. USCIS may issue a Request for Evidence if the degree field is distant from the job duties, so the employer's job description needs to specify the required field explicitly.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor L&D Consultant roles?
Migrate Mate lists L&D Consultant positions from employers with verified sponsorship histories, so you can focus your applications on companies that have actually filed LCAs for this type of role rather than those that only suggest openness to it in their job postings.
Can an L&D Consultant on OPT or STEM OPT transition to H-1B sponsorship?
Yes. If your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as instructional design technology or applied psychology, you may qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving you more runway to secure H-1B sponsorship. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify for STEM OPT, and the role must directly relate to your degree's CIP code. Time the H-1B registration carefully so your OPT authorization covers the gap until October 1.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Learning and Development Consultant jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.