Sr. Instructional Designer - Houston, United States - Strategic Staffing Solutions

Description

Sr. Instructional Designer

Duration- 6 months

Hybrid

Location- Houston

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education, instructional design, or related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in learning design and development, preferably in the oil and gas industry or other complex and global environments.
• Expert knowledge of learning design principles, methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Strong project management, vendor management, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
• 10 + years experience in Plan, design, deliver, and evaluate workforce learning and development programs.
• Design documents
• Articulate Rise and Storyline eLearning courses
• SCORM packages
• Slide decks
• Stakeholder analysis

Responsibilities

As a Senior Learning Design Specialist, you will be responsible for applying learning design principles, methodologies, tools, and best practices to create high-quality and impactful learning solutions that align with business needs and learning objectives. Design projects this specialist will be assigned to will be high value, high priority projects, likely at the enterprise level. You will also:

• Design, develop, and deploy new curriculum including experiential learning, action learning, and other modalities.
• Embrace a mindset that allows for acceptance of minimally viable learning products.
• Develop course content and supporting materials with adopted enterprise tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Articulate Storyline, and Articulate Rise 360, and products within the Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Help in the trial and development of best practices in use of "next generation" design tools, such as Vyond, Animaker, and AI-assisted tools (e.g., video creation, voice generation, translations).
• Work independently or with minimal guidance on prioritized projects.
• Develop a scope of work that is in line with industry best practices and standards, as a member of a durable team.
• Develop solutions in line with the approved scopes and proposed timeline, working within the L&T service model.
• Build learning strategy PowerPoint decks to explain complex design principles and scopes to durable design team and stakeholders (which may include executives or SMEs) to ensure solution adoption
• Advocate for use of learning sciences and design best practices.
• Coaches other team members, shared services employees, and contractor design resources, when required, on client relations and design best practices, to effectively and efficiently meet deliverable requirements.
• Deliver design work against established standards and to meet agreed key milestones.
• Liaise with outsourced design and development capabilities (vendors) to ensure that external resources are available as needed to support design priorities.
• Manage training vendor relationships, as needed, included monitoring of performance, within budgetary constraints provided by LSM or LD&D leaders.
• Manage your own capacity and workload.
• Build key relationships across a range of stakeholders in the L&T value chain – including L&T Portfolio Manager, Learning Solution Managers, Talent Development Services, Executive Development, Diversity Talent Management, and Technical/Functional SMEs as appropriate.
• Maintain awareness and incorporate industry leading practices and emerging trends related to learning design and development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree preferred.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, and matrixed environment.
• Ability to manage project scope and deliver within established acceptance criteria and timelines.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively, and to innovate and experiment with new approaches and solutions.
• Ability to develop relationships with senior leaders and executive stakeholders.

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education, instructional design, or related field. Advanced degree preferred