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Senior Instructional Designer

GCB Services LLC
VA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/20/2025

Job Description :

Senior Instructional Designer

We have several new strategic enterprise-wide learning projects we're launching in Q1 that will have a high organizational impact. Are you an experienced instructional designer? Do you have hands-on experience building instructor-led behavioral-based learning programs? Want to work from home using your talent to hand-craft learning solutions that will empower a 30,000 professional workforce? Want to produce observable, measurable results that enhance skills and enable performance? Are you ready to hit the ground running on your first project day one on the job? Then own this opportunity and apply today.

As a senior team member, you'll hit the ground running, designing and developing professional skill development programs for the enterprise that are highly relevant, business-minded, and leader-championed to enable the immediate application of new skills on the job and enable performance results. You'll managed your own projects, build complex, multi-faceted blended-learning programs, and seek design excellence, with emphasis on continuous improvement in L&D for yourself, the design team and the broader L&D function.

HOW A SENIOR INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

  • Balance the workload of multiple L&D Projects per the agreed-upon timelines established by the L&D Professional Development Expert and Business Sponsors. This includes providing high-quality products and proactively following through on all project tasks and millstones for timely delivery.
  • Facilitate the L&D Project kickoffs and subsequent milestone meetings with Business Sponsors and appropriately engaging other L&D Resources, Subject Matter Experts and Business Stakeholders. Engagement activities include but are not limited to the following : defining the project and business outcomes; reporting project updates; sharing program design / development progress; and gaining necessary approvals.
  • Conduct discovery activities to determine the desired performance outcomes, performance gaps based on enterprise needs analyses and strategic prioritization, cascading learning objectives that will enable those outcomes, and measurement strategies for demonstrating the achievement of those outcomes.
  • Determine the most effective learning approaches, techniques, and technologies to efficiently achieve the learning objectives and desired performance outcomes.
  • Communicate to business stakeholders the clear connections between program content and the desired performance outcomes in achieving business results to gain sign-off.
  • Design program events, activities, and exercises (including sequencing and timing), while also ensuring that learning is relevant, business-minded and engaging for participants.
  • Develop all program assets and materials including virtual workshop events, facilitation guides, learner workbooks, job aids, etc.
  • Establish measurement and monitoring plans to ensure effective implementation of all new programs through targeted curriculum mapping and metrics captures.
  • Collaborate with internal L&D team to implement learning solutions.
  • Produce and archive design documents that appropriately detail the design process and justification for the program. Design documents.
  • Collaborate with L&D leadership and appropriate stakeholders to produce marketing material (as applicable) for new or enhanced learning and skill development programs to package and promote offerings it in highly intuitive, digestible, and compelling ways.
  • Ensure that all learning solutions are fully accessibility and meet usability standards.
  • Champion and influence the achievement of our L&D Mission and guiding principles. Exhibit L&D Excellence and seek continues professional development.
  • Build strong consultative partnerships with Project Sponsors and Business Stakeholders.
  • Position requires the ability to facilitate sessions up to 10% of the time (typically no more than 5% and virtual in most cases).

ATTRIBUTES OF A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE :

  • 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.
  • You have a "can do" attitude and can pivot on the fly. Our team creates high-quality work on quick and sometimes dynamically changing timelines. 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.
  • You want to be part of a winning team that is ranked as an organization that excels at learning and human capital development by Training magazine.
  • QUALIFICATIONS TO APPLY :

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 10 years of related work experience in Instructional Design in a corporate environment in a Learning & Development function.
  • Master's degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Design certificates a plus.
  • Demonstrated Instructional Design / Development Skills in professional or soft skills instructor-led learning (samples / demo will be required).
  • Track record for delivering measurable performance outcomes that enable skill development.
  • Demonstrated ability to write performance outcomes, learning objectives and evaluation measures.
  • Experience with multi-component professional skill development and onboarding programs a plus.
  • Working knowledge of learning and performance development best practices.
  • Current experience interacting with senior leaders in a large, fast-paced, highly complex enterprise.
  • Must be willing to deliver a 15 20-minute presentation to Sr. Leadership as part of the final interview process.
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