Instructional Designer
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Job Location:
Indianapolis, IN - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Description
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER
HighPoint professionals focus on helping government agencies and companies implement their most critically strategic initiatives. The role of the Instructional Designer contributes to HighPoint through the design development and maintenance of instructional materials for job training products.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create and design new and refresher user-centric training products and curriculum that are accurate are correct flow logically and are consistent with established quality standards within assigned deadline.
- Collaborate with curriculum team to revise current training products and curriculum on a regular basis to maintain accurate and current content.
- Consult and work with subject matter experts and cross-department representatives to implement innovations into training products and curriculum.
- Create document reinforce socialize suggest and improve processes standards and best practices as needed.
- Manage multiple deliverables and timelines to adhere to the established quality standards and processes like Section 508 compliance style guide consistencies and other required review cycles.
- Knowledge of instructional design tools including but not limited to Microsoft Office suite Section 508 Accessibility Tools SharePoint Adobe Acrobat reader and Snagit.
- Advise on the impact of a change or improvement to new or current products and curriculum.
- Demonstrate a service-first approach.
- Promote collaboration and effective relationship building among the participants within the Instructional Design team and design projects.
- Attend team curriculum and client meetings as needed.
- Lead curriculum projects including driving leadership level decisions/initiatives down to project teams.
- Lead key projects/initiatives.
- Select modify or create a design and development model appropriate for a given project
- Select and use a variety of techniques to define and sequence instructional content.
- Represent the Training team in presenting to the client and senior level leadership.
- Occasionally seek out guidance and the appropriate resources to ensure that data is interpreted and a full analysis is completed at the product level.
- Handle change management operations.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Ability to perform a comprehensive needs assessment.
- Able to effectively design a course write course objective create effective assessment questions and create appropriate activities.
- Ability to translate complex concepts and ideas and convey them in a simple easy-to-understand format and flow.
- A consistent willingness to represent the interests of the ID team as appropriate.
- Clear timely communication regarding issues opportunities barriers and project risks to all levels and groups; a high level of competence in identifying and adapting to various communications styles.
- Ability to facilitate large group design meetings focus groups client meetings and other initiative meetings.
- Ability to successfully manage work through short timelines regardless of complexity and recognize when others are struggling to meet deadlines.
- Ability to identify when there is an absence of leadership and demonstrate a willingness and aptitude for filling that void with positive results.
- Understanding of the roles and responsibilities within the various groups supporting the contract and ability to productively navigate the political dynamics of government contractors.
- Ability to effectively identify limitations and barriers at the product level and recommend and execute appropriate solutions and work-arounds that effectively take into consideration the health of the overall program/project
- Willingness to actively seek out opportunities and be seen as an early adopter of new processes and tools.
- A positive attitude toward change and ability to champion important initiatives around process and environmental changes.
- Solid expertise in design and development of instructional materials incorporating adult learning principles Blooms Taxonomy Kirkpatricks Levels of Evaluations and other instructional design concepts.
- Ability to take complex topics and convey them in a simple easy-to-understand format and flow.
- Ability to conduct needs analysis write instructional objectives recommend varied instructional models create learning solutions and integrate measurement standards.
- Proven consultative skills and ability to collaborate and develop strong partnerships across the team department and organization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills along with sound presentation and facilitation skills.
EDUCATION AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelors degree from a 4-year college or university; or 4 years of instructional design and/or training deliveryexperience combined.
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 thetouchpoints 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 customers 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.
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 HighPoints legal duty to furnish information.
Key Skills
- System Design
- Classroom Experience
- Learning Technology
- Instructional Design
- Adult Education
- SCORM
- LMS
- Training & Development
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Captivate
- Curriculum Development
- Web Accessibility
