Instructional Designer

Job Title:

Instructional Designer

Location:

Falls Church, VA - Hybrid Remote

Eligibility:
Candidate must be eligible to be employed in the United States

Would you like to be part of a winning team that is ranked as an organization that excels at learning and human capital development by Training magazine? If you have a “can do” attitude and can pivot on the fly, this team is for you! Our team creates high-quality work on quick and sometimes dynamically changing timelines.

In this role, you will design, develop, and implement high-impact enterprise learning and skill development programs for a professional workforce of nearly 30,000 employees, ensuring the highest levels of stakeholder satisfaction and engagement, business alignment, and measurable performance impact.

• Balance the workload of multiple L&D Projects per the agreed upon timelines established by the L&D Design Lead and Executive Sponsors. This includes providing high quality products and proactively following through on all project tasks and milestones for timely delivery.
• Facilitate the L&D Design Project kickoffs and subsequent L&D Design Project milestone meetings with Senior Level Leaders (Business Sponsors) and appropriately engaging other L&D Resources, Subject Matter Experts and Business Stakeholders.
• Conduct discovery activities to determine the desired performance outcomes and existing performance gaps based on enterprise needs analyses and strategic prioritization.
• Provide a consultative approach when gaining solicit insights from subject-matter experts by asking targeted and meaningful questions to fully explore and understand the desired performance, synthesize the information collected, and appropriately incorporate SME feedback into the learning design.
• Make recommendations on the targeted program outcomes and learning needs based on discovery activities.
• Determine ideal learning activities leveraging multi-media techniques and technologies to maximize engagement, learner experience, and efficiently achieve the learning objectives and desired performance outcomes.
• Communicate to business stakeholders the clear connections between program content/approach and the desired performance outcomes in achieving business results to gain design sign-off.
• Design program events, learning activities, and exercises (including sequencing and timing) leveraging the best use of graphics and multi-media, while also ensuring that learning is relevant, business-minded and engaging for participants.
• Establish measurement and monitoring plans to ensure effective implementation of all new programs through targeted curriculum mapping and metrics captures.
• Collaborate with the L&D Delivery Team to hand-off programs (as appropriate). This includes loading and testing programs within the learning management system.
• Champion and influence the achievement ofL&D Mission and guiding principles, modeling the use of established Results-Orientated Agile Design process, tools, and templates.
• Exhibit L&D Excellence and seek continues professional development.

• Education:
  
  High School diploma required with 12+ years in corporate Instructional Design OR Bachelor's degree with 8+ years in corporate Instructional Design/Development or related role.
• Required Experience:
  
  8+ years in corporate Instructional Design/Development or related role.
• Demonstrated ISD experience with a strong portfolio including eLearning design documents (required for interview).
• Track record for delivering measurable performance outcomes that enable skill development.
• Demonstrated ability to design end-to-end interactive eLearning programs inclusive of evaluation measures.
• Proficiency with eLearning authoring tools (Articulate) and instructional technology best practices.
• Experience implementing 508 accessibility and other eLearning standards.
• Exemplary communication, relationship building, and collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated ability develop interactive e-Learning courses with intuitive interfaces and navigation.
• Demonstrated excellence with graphics, audio, video, and other multi-media to promote learning.
• Location:
  
  This position requires a minimum of three (3) days per week onsite

• You’ve got positive energy and are excited to collaborate with peers, SMEs, and leadership on business-minded learning solutions.
• You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener-because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.
• Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
• You’re never tired of learning and always seek to make you and others around you better.