Learning Design Specialist job

Bring your drive for excellence, team orientation, and customer commitment to Independence; help us renew and reimagine our business and shape the future of health care. Our organization is looking to diversify, grow, innovate, and serve, and we are looking for committed, empowered learning-oriented people to join our team. If this describes you, we want to speak with you

In this role, the Learning Design Specialist creates and delivers effective learning solutions for targeted audiences within or across functional areas of Independence. This role collaborates closely with subject matter experts and other learning specialists to develop learning materials and deliver learning that supports enhanced job performance and increased productivity.

Needs Assessment

• Perform job and task analysis.
• Analyze performance data.
• Identify learning needs.

Instructional design (60%)

• Devise and propose effective learning strategies and solutions that include classroom and virtual instructor-led training, eLearning, microlearning, and blended learning.
• Define learning/performance objectives and create content outlines, curriculum plans, and other design documents to guide the development of learning content and evaluations.
• Follow Independence University design/development standards to create engaging, high-quality learning materials and compelling learning content that enhance the retention of learning, including participant guides, instructor guides, presentation files, handouts, job aids, videos, audio files, and other learning objects.
• Logically organize complex information.
• Design, develop, and customize learning content; repurpose existing content into new learning solutions.
• Design and develop learning activities and sustainers, knowledge checks, and pre/post assessments that enhance the learning process.
• Create and use high-impact instructional graphics.
• Create assessments for reinforcement, including situational and scenario-based questions.
• Use authoring tools to create eLearning courses, microlearning modules, simulations, video, audio, and animation.
• Curate and incorporate available learning resources (e.g., reference materials, electronic books and documents, Lynda.com assets) into blended learning solutions.
• Maintain, update, and store existing curriculum and course materials in a central repository.
• Manage review/approval processes, including SME and quality reviews.
• Conduct train-the-trainer activities.

Learning delivery (20%)

• Schedule, prepare, and facilitate virtual and classroom sessions as needed.
• Provide post-session follow-up and learner desk-side support as needed to enable learning transfer as needed.

Evaluation

• Create and implement Level 1 (reaction), Level 2 (learning), and Level 3 (behavior) evaluations.
• Report data to the Learning Manager, and make recommendations for changes and enhancements to learning programs.

Project Management

• Manage multiple small- to medium-scale projects simultaneously.
• Estimate time and resources necessary to develop and deliver learning solutions.
• Develop and document project schedules.
• Monitor and communicate status of work in progress; alert stakeholders to potential risks and conflicts.
• Achieve project milestones/end results.