Sr. Instructional Designer

Job Purpose

This position focuses on supporting government agencies and organizations in executing their most strategic initiatives. The Senior Instructional Designer plays a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining instructional materials and training programs. This role also serves as a mentor, advisor, and subject matter expert in instructional design, contributing to the success and development of the broader team.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and design new and refresher user-centric training products and curriculum that are accurate, correct, flow logically, and consistent with established quality standard within assigned deadline.
• Collaborate with curriculum team to revise current training products and curriculum on a regular basis to maintain accurate and current content.
• Consult and work with subject matter experts and cross-department representatives to implement innovations into training products and curriculum.
• Create, document, reinforce, socialize, suggest and improve processes, standards, and best practices, as needed.
• Manage multiple deliverables and timelines to adhere to the established quality standards and processes, like Section 508 compliance, style guide consistencies, and other required review cycles.
• Serve as a mentor to other members of the Instructional Design team.
• Serve as an Instructional Design team advisor to the Leadership team, as requested.
• Knowledge of instructional design tools that include, but are not limited to, Microsoft Office suite, Section 508 Accessibility Tools, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat reader, and Snagit.
• Advise on the impact of a change or improvement to new or current products and curriculum.
• Possess subject matter expertise in design and development of instructional materials, incorporating adult learning principles, Blooms Taxonomy, Kirkpatrick's Levels of Evaluations, and other instructional design concepts.
• Ability to take complex topics and convey them in a simple, easy-to-understand format and flow.
• Ability to conduct needs analysis, write instructional objectives, recommend varied instructional models, create learning solutions, and integrate measurement standards.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills along with sound presentation and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrate a service-first approach.
• Assist new hires with onboarding plans, tasks, and shadowing as needed.
• Proven consultative skills and ability to collaborate and develop strong partnerships across the team, department, and organization.
• Attend team, curriculum, and client meetings as needed.
• Lead curriculum projects including driving leadership level decision/initiatives down to project teams.
• Lead key projects/initiatives.
• Select, modify, or create a design and development model appropriate for a given project.
• Represent the Training team in presenting to the client and senior level leadership.
• Act as a key contributor and a leader on the team for the purpose of achieving the overall goals of the training organization.

Core Competencies

• Occasionally seeks out guidance and the appropriate resources to ensure that data is interpreted and a full analysis is completed at the product level.
• Capable of performing a comprehensive needs assessment.
• Able to effectively design a course.
• Able to effectively balance being an advocate for the instructional designers as well as leadershipAble to write course objectives.Able to create effective assessment questions.
• Able to create appropriate activities.
• Capable of translating complex concepts and ideas and convey them in a simple, easy-to-understand format and flow.
• Select, modify, or create a design and development model appropriate for a given project.
• Select and use a variety of techniques to define and sequence instructional content.
• Demonstrate a consistent willingness to represent the interests of the ID team as appropriate
• Provide clear, timely communication regarding issues, opportunities, barriers, and project risks to all levels and groups. Should demonstrate a high level of competence in identifying and adapting to various communications styles.
• Able to facilitate large group design meetings, focus groups, client meetings, and other initiative meetings.
• Promote collaboration and effective relationship building among the participants within the Instructional Design team and design projects.
• Able to successfully manage work through short timelines regardless of complexity.
• Able to recognize when others are struggling to meet deadlines.
• Identify when there is an absence of leadership and demonstrate a willingness and aptitude for filling that void with positive results.
• Understand the roles and responsibilities within the various groups supporting the contract and can productively navigate the political dynamics of government contractors.
• Able to effectively identify limitations and barriers at the product level. Recommend and execute appropriate solutions and work-arounds that effectively take into consideration the health of the overall program/project.
• Actively seek out opportunities and seen as an early adopter of new processes and tools.
• Demonstrate a positive attitude toward change as well as championing important initiatives around process and environmental changes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least two years of instructional design experience, or a minimum of six years of instructional design and training facilitation experience.
• Experience delivering training across multiple formats is preferred.