Intermediate Learning Designer

Who are we?

Race Rocks is a woman-led, Indigenous-owned training partner based in Victoria, B.C., operating fully remotely with team members across Canada. We build end-to-end training systems for defence, aerospace, and marine. From building new training programs to modernizing existing ones, we design curriculum, create digital courseware, and deliver training systems that scale across teams and organizations. We’re building a workplace that’s supportive, welcoming, and inclusive, and where creativity, honesty, learning, and collaboration guide how we work.

If you value learning, honest collaboration, and meaningful problem-solving, Race Rocks gives you the environment to put those strengths to work.

You believe learning should be meaningful and engaging, and you see how technology can elevate learning impact. You are a strong team player who thrives both in independent design and collaborative iteration. You enjoy working through uncertainties and have developed excellent communication skills to engage with SMEs, your teammates, and project leadership. Your knowledge of the development of learning content will be essential in creating effective lessons that meet the needs of our clients and learners.

You excel at taking complex ideas and making them accessible.

Your past experience and training have helped you grow to be a confident designer who enjoys using eLearning authoring tools and other relevant technologies to engage learners. As a result, you stay up to date with emerging trends and tools in the learning industry, including appropriate use of AI in learning development. You feel capable and excited to work with the qualifications and skills outlined here, although you don’t need to have expertise in all areas.

As a Learning Designer, you will contribute to the design and development of impactful, results-driven training systems for our products and clients. In our flexible, remote workplace, you will report to the Director of Delivery and create with guidance from the Director of Design and/or Senior Learning Designers. You will collaborate with a team that may include Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Learning Designers, Project Managers, and Artists.

You will be the learner’s advocate. Applying your instructional design skills and learning technology expertise, you will work directly with clients from needs analysis to deployment to design, build, and test engaging learning experiences using tools such as Office 365, Slack, Jira, and Articulate 360.

• Updating curriculum to address gaps and to effectively reach new audiences or goals for our defense and aerospace clients
• Transferring face-to-face training to a blended model by leading the design of new programs, distributed learning courseware, LMS course architecture and reporting, and onboarding programs
• Integrating a task trainer or simulator into existing programs to build confidence, develop skills, or address skill fade
• Evaluating the success of a learning product by utilizing available technologies and developing user testing or piloting strategies

• Collaborate to determine a client’s training needs:
  • Uncover who learners are and their characteristics, the tasks of a position, and what successful performance of these tasks looks like
  • Work with the client and subject matter experts to identify resources for developing learning materials
  • Support clients in understanding the best media and technologies to meet training needs
  • Supporting needs assessments to discover shortfalls in job performance and current training
  • Outlining learning objectives and proposing training solutions to help learners achieve optimal performance in their roles
  • Supporting the definition of program strategies and guidelines in planning and design documents
• Apply your Learning Design expertise to produce deliverables depending on the project scope and timeline:
  • Break down complex information into an engaging and easy-to-understand format
  • Create lesson plans or storyboards for media-rich eLearning courses, scenarios-based learning, and…