Victoria Nelson joined the Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP) for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 2019. As Learning and Development Strategist, she partners with leadership and key stakeholders to design and deploy learning and development solutions in support of strategic goals.  She creates learning programs to develop the capacities and capabilities of employees, improve engagement, and increase retention.  These programs also support SCHARP's values, growth initiatives and reinforce role competencies.

Prior to Fred Hutch, Victoria worked at Quorum Review IRB for nine years as a learning solutions specialist on the corporate training team, developing her craft as an instructional designer and trainer. In this role, she was responsible for both creating and sourcing a variety of training and development opportunities for the organization, facilitating new employee orientation and other classroom and lab sessions, managing the IRB industry’s professional certification program for Quorum, and serving as LMS administrator.