Lead Instructional Designer job

HighPoint’s professionals focus on helping government agencies and companies implement their most critically strategic initiatives. The role of Lead Instructional Designer contributes to HighPoint by ensuring all training products align with the vision of being a trusted, respected performance consultant in the government services sector by delivering the most effective training for our clients.

This role is accountable for the completion of thorough evaluations of training products based on analysis of various data sources, including learner needs, performance measures, subject matter expertise, and observation. The Lead Instructional Designer leads project teams through the ADDIE model, ensuring that all products meet established learning objectives, maintain design continuity, and are assessed by post-deployment evaluation criteria. This role also promotes professional growth within the Training team.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience using rapid authoring tools for eLearning development, such as Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline or Studio, or Camtasia
• Knowledge of and experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with sound presentation and facilitation skills
• Knowledge of Section 508 Accessibility preferred but not required

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervise the curriculum management and implementation and deployment of courseware.
• Manage assigned curriculum updates, evolution, and modifications throughout the year to ensure curricula relevance and correlation to learner requirements.
• Create and design new and refresher training products and curricula that are accurate, user-centric, flow logically, and are consistent with established quality standards.
• Collaborate with the Instructional Design and Media Development teams on the design and development of course materials and templates, including instructor guides, participant guides, eLearning modules, and reference materials.
• Cultivate an environment for the instructional designers that encourages creativity and innovative thinking for developing training materials.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts, editors, media developers, script writers, 508 analysts, and project managers to maintain existing documents.
• Manage the implementation of new courses within assigned line of business as required, including identification of course requirements, prerequisites, and related or interdependent courses as defined by curriculum requirements.
• Review materials for consistency and flow of content throughout assigned curricula.
• Maintain knowledge of design and development of instructional materials, incorporating adult learning principles, Blooms Taxonomy, Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluations, and other instructional design concepts, including current trends in learning and design.
• Identify underperforming or outdated training courses and content and offer recommendations for improvement or replacement as required.
• Oversee design of assessments and measures to analyze and improve training effectiveness of the various modalities within the curricula.
• Review product evaluations, test results, and participant feedback on training effectiveness to make recommendations for program improvement.
• Take complex topics and convey them in a simple, easy-to-understand format and flow.
• Research and recommend appropriate training and performance solutions as required.
• Collaborate with other lead instructional designers to seek innovative new methods for improving training materials across entire department course libraries.
• Collaborate and develop strong partnerships across the team, department, organization, and clients.
• Work with training management to set the vision for the entire training program curricula goals.
• Represent the Training team in presenting to the client and senior level leadership

EDUCATION AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and a combination of 4 years of instructional design, training/facilitation, or education experience; or master’s degree from an accredited college or university and 3 years of instructional design, training/facilitation, or education experience
• Experience in training facilitation required

HighPoint is a federal government contractor. To ensure compliance with Executive Order 14042, HighPoint requires employees to either (1) show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or (2) have an approved reasonable accommodation, based on a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief, exempting them from the requirement. If selected for this role, you will need to submit documentation of proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or apply for a reasonable accommodation during the post-offer process.

ABOUT HIGHPOINT:

HighPoint is a growth-oriented firm that provides a unique, differentiated employee culture relative to our Federal market peers. We leverage this growth-oriented and employee-focused culture to attract and retain a higher grade of talent than our peers to be an employer of choice.

HighPoint helps government agencies elevate the citizen experience (CX) by improving the touchpoints through which citizens interact with government. We were founded in 2006 by Ben Lanius with the spirit of transforming how agencies connect with and empower citizens to deliver on mission-critical objectives.

At HighPoint, our focus is on delivering results that matter. We support and modernize our federal customer’s mission critical systems and functions. Agility is at our core: it is the mantra that drives us to succeed. We work quickly, analytically and deliver on agency priorities.

HighPoint is privately held with 250 plus passionate employees across offices and locations in Indianapolis, Indiana; and Herndon, Virginia.

HighPoint Digital, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability or veteran status.

HighPoint Digital, Inc. will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with HighPoint’s legal duty to furnish information.