The Instructional Designer, under the supervision and guidance of the Program Office, is responsible for designing, developing and evaluating curriculum in accordance with the Instructional Systems Design model and Technical Security Engineering (TSE) Standard Operating Procedures. This position requires the incumbent to work closely with other program offices, subject matter experts, multimedia specialists, and distributed learning designers to design and develop lesson plans, student materials, and instructional media.
Major Duties:
• Applies principles of Adult Learning Theory to the design of all training materials;
• Designs, develops, implements and evaluates training solutions;
• Designs and develops curriculum and courses of instruction using the Instructional Systems Design model;
• Develops lesson content and identify appropriate training delivery mechanisms;
• Identifies training gaps and recommend changes to training programs and curricula that will minimize or eliminate training gaps;
• Develops course material to include planning documents, student and Instructor materials and course presentations;
• Conducts needs assessments
• Develops learning goals and objectives, using the Instructional Systems Design model in accordance with Training and Performance Standard Operating Procedures;
• Monitors courses and instructors against performance criteria;
• Performs course evaluation;
• Develops course proposals and project management plans;
• Develops, maintains and ensures adherence to a course development schedule during the development cycle;
• Stays current on policy, law and technology changes, as well as skill requirements, office directives, roles and responsibilities to ensure up-to-date curriculum;
• Coordinates with instructors, subject matter experts (SME), multimedia team and other program offices;
• Provide course management services, including course revisions, instructor performance evaluations, cost assessments, and making recommendations for course retirement;
• Assists curriculum management by maintaining all curriculum records, scheduling and conducting curriculum reviews, making recommendations for updates and changes, and tracking revision history;
• Reviews content and provide final quality control check on lessons and all supporting material
• Evaluates pilot courses to ensure that they conform to Training and Performance Standard Operating Procedures, FLETA accreditation and adult education standards;
• Attends internal and external meetings as an Instructional Design expert;
• Provides weekly updates of course activities to the curriculum manager;
• Provides the necessary support and guidance to achieve and retain all FLETA accreditation requirements for the Program Office;
• Participate in every facet of the Instruction Design process with some supervision and guidance;
• Employee will require some supervision and has a growing opportunity to exercise independent judgment and initiative in the line of work.
Work will be hybrid in nature: 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely from home.
Secret Clearance
• Must possess certifications and/or degrees in education or instructional design;
• Specialized knowledge or professional experience in several of the following: instructional systems design, education and adult learning principles, cooperative learning, programming and authoring tools, graphic arts and media design and educational product evaluation;
• Must be familiar with standard concepts, practices and procedures in training and course development;
• Demonstrated experience working in all five phases of the Instructional Systems Design model;
• Demonstrated experience creating assessments;
• Excellent writing, proofreading and design skills to develop training course materials;
• Must possess excellent written and spoken use of the English language;
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills; and attention to detail;
• Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel);
• Familiarity with SharePoint preferred.
Must have SAMS (Successive Approximation Model) experience
Education:
Bachelor's degree with a concentration in adult learning, education or curriculum development, together with six (6) years of experience in curriculum design and development; Years of experience can be exchanged for education
Dunn Loring, Virginia