Instructional Designer job
February 7, 2024Lead Instructional Designer job
February 8, 2024Website Skillable
Skillable is a 100% remote and virtual tech company that’s modernizing the world of training. Come share your professional magic with highly talented, drive and fun colleagues who believe in the power of “skilling.” Experience what a true team focused on doing the right thing feels like!
Our people and talent are what make us great and fun! We work together to create amazing solutions and experiences for our customers and their clients. We utilize our employees’ personal strengths to help our company grow and ensure our team is living their best, authentic life. We don’t just share our appreciation for our team members once a year with a branded mug—it’s shared on a daily basis. Our remote work environment blends the demands of work and life without the added pressure of commuting or feeling guilty about leaving early to visit the dentist.
Come work with us and learn what teamwork and integrity blended with an emphasis on well-being and balance can do for your career!
The Instructional Designer will execute our content development strategy and model our instructional design methodologies and the processes that translate those beliefs into high-quality learning experiences. They will support custom projects with designing, developing, and publishing customized content for our customers. They will create training and skilling content, follow responsive and trustworthy development processes for content services, and be an advocate for sound instructional design and content creation practices.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop high quality, valued learning content for our customers.
- Work collaboratively with project teams and customers through the content development lifecycle.
- Participate in extended and continuing education, research and competitive analysis to understand the learning and edtech market; maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending workshops, reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Design and develop courseware projects following established processes from management and leads to assure objectives, timelines, and budgets are met.
- Track billable time to support management efforts to report on resourcing needs for to maximize margin and time to market while maintaining appropriate flexibility.
- Uphold processes to perform regular quality and design reviews throughout the content development lifecycle.
- Follow best practices in adult learning theory and other learning design skills and methodologies for skills development and skills validation content creation
- Support management and others in the Product Group to document best practices for integrating scored labs and other Skillable products with custom content opportunities.
- Participate in coaching sessions from colleagues and management to learn more about the “why, what, and how” of building effective, efficient skills development and skills validation content.
- Support and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis.
- Other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement as required.
Requirements
- 2+ years contributing complex learning development projects/programs through contracted technical resources.
- Good command of the Articulate 360 suite, and Adobe Captivate
- Working knowledge of Adobe Experience Manager is a plus
- Advanced-level understanding and practice of Instructional Design as a discipline; working-level knowledge in adult learning theories and research, learning experiences, needs assessment, job/task analysis, and skill/competency frameworks.
- Working knowledge of technical terminology and ability to quickly become “conversationally competent” with a wide variety of cloud, data, AppDev, IT, and security terms.
- Desire to work – and ability to flourish – at an extremely fast pace.
- Proven ability to drive multiple workflows/projects forward within a matrixed, agile work environment.
- Willingness to help fellow team members understand how to employ new Instructional Design methodologies.
- Experience in the IT training and certification industry and understanding of technical content development, job/task analysis, and Instructional Design is required.
What’s in it for You? Rewards and Perks
We believe in providing a suite of benefits that ensure our employees know we appreciate them as people first. Skillable wants to be a company that promotes physical, emotional and all around well-being through our benefit offerings! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:
- Fully remote with a monthly stipend to pay for office services and supplies
- Medical (2 plan options), dental (2 plan options), vision, health savings account with generous employer contributions, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, EAP, group paid life insurance, group paid STD and LTD and voluntary life/AD&D insurance, accident and critical illness options.
- 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, healthy lifestyle reimbursements.
- Open PTO, Paid holidays, bereavement leave, parental leave, caregiver leave and paid FMLA leave.
- Friends and Family Friday to end our standard workweek at 2pm local time; Full company closure during the 4th of July holiday week.
- Access to pet insurance; Access for employees and dependents to Skillable learning opportunities through our product and more!
Working Conditions
The job conditions for this position are in a remote home office setting, requiring a space that supports privacy and focus to attend to regular and frequent video and voice calls. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Periodic travel may be required equaling up to approximately 10% of the time.
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