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At Cortland, you map the story of your success. We don’t adhere to the status quo, we love outside industry perspective, and we thrive on exploring possibilities and reimagining solutions. As an innovative leader in multifamily, our high performance continues to drive exponential growth – and we invite you to join us on our journey towards real estate excellence. With tools and guidance to sharpen your skills, you can forge your own career path, love what you do, and let it show.
Job Overview:
As a Senior Learning Experience Designer, you design awesome learning experiences across several modalities that prepare our associates to deliver best-in-class experiences for our guests, our residents, and for each other. You develop courses, materials, guides, and other training content that empower learners in new ways and get them engaged and excited to learn more. Here are the roles you’ll play:
Roles You Will Play:
The Visionary
- Partner with project stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand training needs and business problems that need to be solved.
- Use a variety of techniques to define and sequence the instructional content and strategies.
- Focus on creating instruction that reflects an understanding of the diversity of learners and groups of learners; work with colleagues to develop learning solutions for remote learners.
- Build dynamic and engaging training designs while adhering to Cortland branding guidelines.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and subject-matter experts as necessary to gather topic knowledge and to determine goals, audience, and project scope.
- Work with other designers to execute on your vision and meet the business needs of the sponsor and stakeholders.
The Designer
- Create a wide range of deliverables, including PowerPoint templates, e-learning modules, and graphics for videos, gamification, and blended learning solutions.
- Work with different stakeholders to design content specifically catered to their unique needs.
- Take the lead on the needs analysis, design, and development of training materials and visuals.
- Hold audiences’ attention and engage learners by creating an experience that tells a compelling story and promotes an interactive experience through e-learning, instructor-led training, video or blended solutions.
The Brand Champion
- Make our training materials look as eye-catching as possible by identifying the best layouts for illustrative material and collaborating with the Internal Communications and Content team to support a variety of formats and devices.
- Come up with graphic styles that most effectively fit the overarching design parameters given by our company brand guidelines.
- Push the envelope to create one-of-a-kind images that align with the company brand and the Talent Engagement strategy.
- Track learning projects using project management software.
The Impact You Can Make
- Your team and audiences are consistently blown away by your ideas and ability to bring information to life through your design elements.
- Candidates and associates absorb the information faster and better thanks to your ability to stun a wider audience and generate excitement about the Cortland brand.
- Our attraction and engagement of talent has never been higher, and we’ve never seen such a dramatic increase in training efficiency!
Building Blocks of Success:
- Strong 5+ years of experience in an instructional design or LXD capacity with a proven track record of creating educational content that helps associates learn and retain concepts and skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, technical writing, instructional or graphic design, related field, or equivalent experience; Master’s degree preferred.
- Instructional Design Certification a plus.
- Experience using eLearning authoring tools and software (Camtasia, Articulate Storyline/Rise, PowerPoint, etc.).
- Experience using Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects).
- Excellent attention to detail that includes the ability to prioritize and work on multiple projects in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills plus cultural adeptness to influence leaders and effectively tailor communications across all levels of our organization.
- Ability to translate complex concepts into an easy-to-understand and digestible format.
Outro:
At Cortland, we create, reimagine, and manage apartment communities for residents nationwide. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, we have communities and regional offices all over the country, as well as overseas. From product design and procurement to general contracting and property management, we do it all – to make sure our communities are the perfect setting for living life to its fullest.
Our success is fueled by our belief in a better life – where hospitality is always a given, each detail is worth a second thought, and every open door is a new opportunity to go beyond expectations. We come to work every day to create possibilities for people – possibilities that translate into superior living spaces and experiences designed to inspire our residents, associates, and investors to live a better life focused on what matters most to them.
To apply for this job please visit careers-cortland.icims.com.