Technical Instructional Systems Designer (T-ISD) (TS/SCI with Poly Required)

GCI embodies excellence, integrity and professionalism. The employees supporting our customers deliver unique, high-value mission solutions while effectively leverage the technological expertise of our valued workforce to meet critical mission requirements in the areas of Data Analytics and Software Development, Engineering, Targeting and Analysis, Operations, Training, and Cyber Operations. We maximize opportunities for success by building and maintaining trusted and reliable partnerships with our customers and industry.

At GCI, we solve the hard problems. We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced officer to join our professional development team. The ideal candidate is responsible for implementing the customer's curriculum lifecycle tasks. The Contractor T-ISDs collaborate closely with the customer to assess training needs and develop all material for new courses and provide updates to existing courses as requested by the customer. T-ISDs support the entire creation process, including technology research and insertion when applicable, through pilot course delivery and course evaluations to ensure courses meet training and customer objectives.

T-ISDs work will include:

• Needs assessment: Determine the needs of the learning event, including the stakeholder goals, organizational goals, and learner needs
• Develop instructional materials: Create training materials in collaboration with Technical Training Instructors and Subject Matter Experts. Materials may include presentation materials, participant guides, handouts, and job aids
• Design course content: Apply learning theory to design course content and learning activities
• Evaluate training: Assess what was learned and if the training led to measurable behavior changes
• Provide guidelines: Provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses

Required Qualifications

• 3 years of adult learning experience in any of the following: instructional design, instructional technology, experiential learning, or closely related field
• 3 years of experience creating instructional content
• 1 year of experience with customer working in a technical mission area
• A degree in Business, Science, Engineering, Education or Liberal Arts or an ISD certification with 5 years of course development experience in the past 7 years after certificate award
• Certificate in Instructional Design from an accredited institution or a degree in an education field strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience with instructional design, instructional technology, experiential learning, or a closely related educational field
• Demonstrated experience creating instructional content for adult learners supporting a broad range of training modalities (synchronous, asynchronous, instructor led, web-based training, virtual training and/or blended courses
• Demonstrated experience designing technical course content for the customer
• Knowledge of multimedia production tools and methodology and a strong technical aptitude to quickly learn new software and hardware

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Science, Engineering or Education
• Experience teaching technical content in an adult learning environment
• Experience incorporating technology such as gaming, augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), avatars, and or artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) modalities into course content
• Demonstrated knowledge of customer technologies and tools used to support the intelligence collection and assessment lifecycle