Senior Instructional Designer

Position Title: Senior Instructional Designer

Location: Remote

Position Status: Contract

W2 Pay Rate: $55/hr -$60/hr

Position Description:

HOW A SENIOR INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Balance the workload of multiple L&D Projects per the agreed upon timelines established by L&D Leadership 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, learning and performance gaps, cascading learning objectives that will enable those outcomes, and measurement strategies for demonstrating the achievement of those outcomes.
• Determine the most effective learning modalities, 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 program assets and materials including virtual workshop events, facilitation guides, learner workbooks, job aids, light eLearning storyboarding, etc. eLearning development is NOT included in this role.
• 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 GDIT 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 and Development Skills in professional or soft skills instructor-led learning (samples/demo will be required).
• Demonstrated Instructional Design Skills inclusive of storyboarding in eLearning (samples/demo will be required). Note this is not an eLearning development role.
• Ability to mentor junior designers.
• 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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About Seneca Resources:

Seneca Resources is a client driven provider of strategic Information Technology consulting services and Workforce Solutions to government and industry.Seneca Resources is a leading IT services provider with offices in Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Texas that service clients throughout the United States.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value the benefits of diversity in our workplace.