What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Instruction System Designer - TS/SCI with FSP REQUIRED position at Dhara Consulting Group?
Job Description
Fusion Innovation's recent growth has earned us a top spot in the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America and in Washington Business Journal's Best Places to Work multiple years in a row. Our team members are passionate about their work and are empowered to contribute their unique skills and perspectives to our projects. Here at Fusion, we put people first. When you join us, you don't just join a company, you join a family. If you are ready to be part of a fun and engaging team where your innovative ideas are heard, supported, and make ever lasting mission impacts for our Nation's most sensitive programs, you have come to the right place.
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Instructional Designer to support a training program for the Customer’s technical targeting occupation by designing and evaluating course curriculum and assisting with multiple aspects of the training program. The training class is a multi-week blended learning experience for the students.
Key responsibilities for the position include:
Develop project management plans for instructional design projects. The plans may include, but are not limited to, project schedules, task listings and assignments, milestones and deliverables, scope outlines, or level-of-effort estimates.
Work with Customer POC’s to determine the learning need, the appropriate learning outcomes, and the most appropriate instructional methodologies based on adult learning theory.
Design instructional strategies that engage, motivate, or are learner-centered. Demonstrate how the strategy was specifically designed to meet those goals.
Assist course instructors by providing clear instructor guides, conducting assessments of training outcomes during pilots by observing the course and providing course instruction as applicable.
Provide formative and summative assessment capabilities to support student feedback process and training program. Use custom course reports with course evaluation data to measure course outcomes and facilitate improvements.
Utilize core mission objectives and a comprehensive understanding of the Customer organization to evaluate, design, brief, and deliver relevant course material or content for instructor or student use in approved formats such as visuals, handouts, and reference guides. Archive supporting information on the Customer’s network.
Analyze each customer-approved design concept to determine the tasks, skills, level of effort, and sequence of events required to create the learning experience. Ensure design concepts demonstrate an advanced understanding of instructional design models and learning theory, are technically sound, and consider possible constraints such as resources and capabilities given the classified environment.
Collaborate across functional teams such as stakeholders, SME’s, or media development teams and demonstrate how such cross-functional collaboration has benefitted an instructional design project or product.
Required Skills
Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph.
Bachelors Degree (4 years of experience may substitute in lieu of degree) and 8 years of related experience.
Instructional design experience.
Track record of developing, implementing, and evaluating project-based learning.
Demonstrated ability to create measurable and enabling learning objective, along with supportive course activities and exercises.
Successful experience facilitating training working groups and panel discussions.
Strong communication, collaboration, and time management skills.
