Senior Instructional System Designer

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis, and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service.

SPECIFIC JOB DESCRIPTION:

The National Geospatial-Intelligence College (NGC) provides mission-essential training, education, and professional development services to enable the United States’ global GEOINT mission and is accredited by the Council on Occupational Education (COE). Accreditation has two fundamental purposes: (1) to assure the quality of the institution or program and (2) to assist in the improvement of the institution or program.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Current and active TS SCI Security Clearance
• B.A., B.S. in Instructional Design, Curriculum Management, Instructional Technology, Education, Distance Learning, English, or Human Performance Technology or significant commensurate years of relevant experience designing, developing, and implementing learning solutions.
• Minimum of five years’ experience in an educational, corporate training, or professional services environment, with an emphasis on e-learning and multimedia technologies.
• Experience in curriculum management and course maintenance
• Experience in the performance of all aspects of instructional design for classroom and e-Learning environments to include management of client deliverables within scheduling requirements against defined milestones and deadlines.
• Experience in adult learning theory and student-centered pedagogy
• Ability to develop a basic subject-matter understanding through materials provided and individual research/collaboration with course/content stakeholders.
• Demonstrated writing, editing, proofreading, and formatting of customer-ready materials.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• Strong consulting and interpersonal skills; able to work in a team environment.
• Strong presentation skills and ability to work with senior leadership
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).
• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, implement maintain instructional materials and solutions following defined processes to include structured courseware, job aids, and informal learning content.
• Experience collecting, compiling, analyzing and synthesizing information to determine learning requirements and implementing learning solutions.
• Demonstrated experience authoring and editing of web and computer-based training materials using Articulate Storyline software.
• Ability to demonstrate an application of cognitive science and human factors engineering that apply to the design of web-based training
• Experience and/or familiarity with e-Learning standards, to include SCORM and Section 508 requirements, web usability standards and practices, and evaluation models to include Kirkpatrick.
• Familiar with LMS specifically Blackboard
• Experience in developing student centric products to include Performance Support solutions

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to develop and maintain content to be hosted on learning management systems (Blackboard) or content management systems (SharePoint) as required.
• Familiarity and/or working knowledge of the Intelligence Community and NGA.
• Attained industry learning related certifications such as ASTD CPLP, Kirkpatrick, Blackboard, and Articulate Storyline.
• Ability to effectively communicate processes and procedures to faculty as they begin to leverage instructional technologies within curriculum.
• Understanding and/or familiarity with the Council on Occupational Education (COE) accreditation standards and policies.
• Experience in developing and maintaining eLearning educational products using Articulate Storyline software tools.