Instructional Designer

Opportunity at a Glance

Industry subject matter experts will teach you, and then you will teach our learners — in just 300 words in the form of text-based learning objects. Topics range from bribery and drug cartels to terrorism and cryptoasset tracing, always with something more to explore. If you are smart and you write well, you should be successful.

Responsibilities

• Identify and build relationships with industry Subject Matter Experts
• Working with SMEs, identify the KSAs required for success in a specific learner context
• Working with SMEs, organize KSAs into efficient, coherent, strategic, and time-based outlines
• Guide and coordinate SMEs as they provide content for those outlines
• Research as necessary to fill gaps or validate SME content
• Edit and convert SME draft into effective learning objects
• Build supporting forms, tools, objects, etc., in various authorware platforms
• Proofread, audit, and do other quality control
• Guide multimedia producer
• Guide showrunners
• Coordinate product edit reviews, testing, revision
• Support archive of courseware, source files, and documentation
• Share and teach best practices among coworkers
  
  

Qualifications

• Fast learner able to learn a completely new-to-you concept after just a few minutes of training from a subject matter expert
• Mustreside in a reasonable commute to DC
• Curious, logical thinker who can identify gaps and inconsistencies well enough to ask good follow-up questions to a subject matter expert
• Clear, organized writer able to effectively teach someone a concept you just learned
• Keen attention to detail, including the ability and willingness to work within fixed constraints
• Self-motivated, self-managing with remote supervisor
• Available for frequent meetings in the US Eastern time zone
• General technical skills and aptitude, being a quick self-learner of all the technology ACAMS uses now (including Xyleme, MS Office, Webex, Monday, SmartSheet, LMS, ReadSpeaker, Salesforce, ACAMS.org, etc.) and in the future
• 3 years of developing adult learning, process training, business blog posts, etc.
• 3 years of contacting, securing, and managing external and internal resources
• Portfolio available for review by ACAMS
• These attributes are a plus:
• Experience as a variable-compensated consultant or self-employed
• Experience in learning object design—especially discrete and reusable objects
• Bachelor’s degree
  

EEO

We are proud to be an EEO employer M/F/D/V. At ACAMS, we welcome everyone and have a strong commitment towards diversity and inclusion. We encourage our Colleagues to be their true authentic selves and support laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. We also maintain a drug-free workplace.

Who We Are

ACAMS is the largest international membership organization dedicated to providing opportunities for anti-financial crime (AFC) education, best practices, and peer-to-peer networking to AFC professionals globally. With over 90,000 members across 180 jurisdictions, ACAMS is committed to the mission of ending financial crime through the provision of anti-money laundering/counterterrorism-financing and sanctions knowledge-sharing, thought leadership, risk-mitigation services, ESG initiatives, and platforms for public-private dialogue. The association’s CAMS certification is the gold-standard qualification for AFC professionals, while the CGSS certification is its premier specialist qualification for sanctions professionals. ACAMS’ 60 Chapters globally further amplify the association’s mission through training and networking initiatives. Visit acams.org for more information.

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