Instructional Designer

VOS Instructional DesignerProject Manager20 to 25%Instructional Designer50 to 55%Trainer/Facilitator5 to 10%Analyst10 to 15%CORE COMPETENCIES:**Learner Oriented Thinking**: Demonstrated ability to focus on learner needs, problems, expectations, and performance to help them become problem solvers in their own environments.**Organization & Curation **(‘organize to optimize’): Ability to filter, synthesize and distill multiple data points to increase access and speed to the most pertinent information for continuous learning. Creates order from chaos by organizing and harmonizing content into bite size learning nuggets. Prioritizes high impact content to optimize the audience’s learning experience.**Communication**:Outstanding storyteller who can align communication style with both audience and medium.**Instructional Design**:Ability to translate business strategy into the most appropriate learning solution including workflows, simulations, websites, instructor-led virtual and classroom training, videos, and performance support tools. Experience with adult learning models. Experience developing curriculum using multiple synchronous and asynchronous training modalities including instructor-led, micro-learning, blended learning and virtual training materials**Critical thinking**:Translates project needs into curating solutions by evaluating the problem, filtering information, and drawing conclusions. Uses logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. Leverages good judgment and decision making considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. a plan for approaching each project with clear steps from beginning to end.**Collaboration**:Strong relationship-building skills with a proven track record of accomplishing work effectively in a multi-functional team environment**Data Analysis**:Understanding on how to make meaning from data and share finding with key stakeholders.**Solution Architect**:Ability to analyze existing processes and determine areas for improvement. Architect and implement solutions, then analyze effect of improvement.**Project Manager**:Understand how to manage projects and use existing tools to ensure projects hit key milestones. Keep stakeholders updated through out the project life cycle.**General **Responsibilities**:- Serves as a development thought leader, creating innovative solutions and sharing best practices with others- Proactively identify process improvement ideas.**Project Manager Responsibilities**:- Manage instructional design projects.- Develop dashboards, reports, and tools to communicate status and at-risk items.- Identify, assess and help manage risks to the success of the project.- Ensure that realistic project plans are prepared and maintained and provide regular and accurate reports to stakeholders as appropriate.- Manage the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within planned timescale and are signed off.**Instructional Designer Responsibilities**:- Collaborate effectively with L&D team members to identify skill gaps and design engaging course materials and job aids.- Perform regular review and analyze customer, industry, and SME feedback in order to deliver constant improvement in the quality of courseware and the learner’s experience- Create and manage timelines for new training development- Analyze courseware feedback metrics to ensure quality benchmarks are met and implement corrective action as necessary- Consult with cross-functional leadership and Enablement team members to create engaging, action-oriented, measurable training for audiences- Architect the information hierarchy, flow, and tone of both the high level experience and individual learning components. Curate and/or create the content associated with the agreed upon learning solutions. Map content and activities to support learning outcomes. Write compelling, effective copy aligned to the learning modality.- Optimize the use of learning technologies that create efficiencies that help us scale (i.e. learning experience platforms).- Stay updated on the latest learning theory and best practices, integrating them into workflows and processes- Conducts needs assessment and create a multi-method (micro learning, online, ILT) training program.- Embed data collection and feedback mechanisms throughout our learning solutions to generate data-driven, actionable insights.**Analyst Responsibilities**:- Support existing KPI's and develop new KPI's to assist in providing objective metrics at multiple levels of detail to monitor L&D training efforts.- Investigate and identify opportunities for new KPI's, tools and/or processes by leveraging trend analysis and industry best practices.- Optimize data collection, refine the analysis process, identify trends and make appropriate propo