Ideal Candidate Profile: Seeking an Operations Instructional Design Specialist to lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of digital learning experiences. This role will establish and lead a Learning Experience Design Center of Excellence (COE) within Operations, responsible for building best-in-class design standards, templates, and tools that elevate the quality and impact of all learning experiences. You'll collaborate across Operations, Product, Program, and Technology to ensure that every learning program is both engaging and measurable in its impact on performance, readiness, and customer experience.You use instructional design to drive innovation in digital learning through evidence-based practices, human-centered design, and the thoughtful application of learning science. You bring experience with Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline 360, SCORM Cloud, Global Meet, and PowerPoint to create lessons and modules, and coding skills with JavaScript extensions and other tools to produce interactive elements.
Develop and Deliver Training, Templates, and Artifacts (40%)
Create detailed design principles and templates for the team to use in creating individual training artifacts like webinars, live learning, async lessons and modules.
Create complex training experiences and deliverables using tools like JavaScript extensions, xAPI, cmi5, and Blender.
Plan, script, and build engaging, interactive, targeted, and efficient learning artifacts for internal Operations staff who support the delivery of Client products and assessments.
Create visual elements like graphics, exercises, videos, printables, and assessments to make artifacts engaging to learners.
Use Articulate Storyline 360, Articulate Review SCORM Cloud, and PowerPoint to create and update training artifacts.
Learning Strategy and Standards (30%)
Establish the Learning Experience Design COE to define standards, templates, and processes for learning design excellence.
Partner with business leaders to ensure learning programs are measurable and linked to performance outcomes and customer experience improvements.
Anticipates future learning needs by staying current with design trends and research. Balances prioritization and delivery of new strategies and approaches with current business needs.
Leverage AI technologies to develop learning solutions that deliver high business value to materially transform Ops learning experiences
Make necessary adjustments and add required elements (like closed-captioning) to ensure all artifacts are ADA compliant when required.
Ensure final artifacts are compatible with organization's LMS and broader knowledge management infrastructure.
Continuous Improvement and Evolve Content (30%)
Deliver strategies that connect learning programs to business results using data and evaluation models to prove the impact and value of learning initiatives.
Establish and monitor key learning performance metrics to measure and enhance business impact, using data to drive continuous improvement
Implement feedback loops to gather user insights and measure satisfaction, leveraging this data for iteratively refining learning solutions
Maintain governance processes for content updates in collaboration with SMEs and overall Knowledge and Learning Operations team.
Required Skills & Experience
Expertise in digital learning with 5+ years designing and creating digital training programs.
Experience providing digital learning to K-12 educators is preferred but not required.
Outstanding knowledge of emerging trends and best practice in digital learning
Expertise in authoring and publishing systems, including Articulate Storyline 360, Adobe Captivate, and SCORM Cloud to create multimedia solutions is required.
Proven capabilities to develop complex learning materials, including simulations, JavaScript extensions, and multimedia.
Expertise in instructional technologies is required; operational experience with LMS technologies and capability to maintain expertise with emerging technologies and standards, xAPI, and cmi5.
Adept problem-solving skills, including using data to inform decisions and actions
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proven ability to build relationships and influence others to action
A passion for supporting educational and career opportunities for millions of students
Excellent PowerPoint, Word, and Excel skills
Authorization to work in the United States
