Instructional Designer
Job Description
Looking for an opportunity with a dynamic, fun, and goal-oriented company? We’re growing quickly and we’re looking for some not-so-typical talent to join our team.
Progress Residential® is the largest providers of high-quality, single-family rental homes in the United States. With more than 90,000 homes across some of the fastest-growing markets, our residents appreciate the flexibility, freedom, and convenience of living in a single-family home without the obligations of home ownership.
Progress is committed to making the home rental process easy and enjoyable for the residents we serve by empowering our team members and investing in innovative systems and technology. Our portfolio has continued to grow substantially the past few years and we see increasing demand for professionally managed single-family rental homes and anticipate continued growth.
Employment with Progress Residential is conditional on a satisfactory background and drug screen.
Job Summary
The Instructional Designer will work with the Workforce and Learning/Development teams, and key stakeholders to create online learning modules, web-based training, instructor led training materials and guides, and all supporting content. This position will work closely with the Program Managers, to upload and manage courses within Workday Learning and ensure brand and design standards for all content. The Instructional Designer will use strong interpersonal, written and visual communication skills to bring together text, images, video and audio to communicate and educate employees to perform job functions and remain in compliance with company and industry standards.
Essential Functions
- Create fluid content to ensure learners remain engaged and courses see minimal attrition
- Ensure content/courses cater effectively to a wide variety of learners; modularize and update existing instructor-led and online content and curate the most relevant content to be included in the course
- Work with subject matter experts, devise modes of assessment and interactions to ensure the optimum efficacy of the course
- Collaborate with all parties involved to brainstorm the aesthetics of the curriculum
- Work with existing style guide and philosophy to create brand focused coursework and materials that are professional/learner friendly and ensure the learners are not overwhelmed by the experience
- Conduct detailed needs assessments with internal clients to determine learning needs and partners with subject matter experts to develop outlines, scripts, scenarios, storyboards, and simulations for online, webinar and classroom training
- Present assessment results with logic and fact-based evidence to internal clients
- Create online, webinar and classroom-based training, applying solid instructional design methodology (ADDIE) and adult learning theory
- Work closely with facilitators to develop Participant Guides, Leader’s Guides, PowerPoints, online resources, websites and handouts for all training delivery channels
- Develop exercises, activities, and progress checks that maximize learner understanding and retention of content
- Develop and communicate timelines and project plans to clients
- Participate in post-production evaluation of training designs
Qualifications
- 2+ years progressive experience as an instructional designer and preferably within an Engineering and/or Construction firm
- Advanced knowledge and proficiency in Articulate (or other course authoring tools), and Microsoft Office required
- Strong organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple projects while meeting tight deadlines
- Experience working with learning management systems
- High attention to detail
- Excellent written and communication skills, technical writing experience a plus
- Experience with video editing tools (Camtasia, Adobe Premier, etc.) a plus
- Experience in conducting needs and gap analysis
- Proven ability to facilitate in small groups and through virtual mediums (Zoom, GoToWebinar, etc.)
What you can expect from us:
Progress Residential® offers all the financial and non-financial incentives you would expect from an innovative real estate investment and management firm:
- In addition to outstanding training, we host quarterly summits and town hall meetings to encourage growth, knowledge sharing and a good time. After all, it’s about progress, not perfection.
- We offer competitive compensation, including a performance-based bonus.
- Our generous benefits package includes comprehensive healthcare coverage for you and your family, parental leave, paid time off, 401k match, 10 paid holidays and much more
Closing Statement:
This summary is not an all-inclusive description of job duties. Other job duties and responsibilities may also be assigned by the incumbent’s supervisor at any time based upon Company need.
Progress Residential® is a proud Equal Opportunity employer, m/f/d/v.
About Organization
At Progress Residential®, we know that opportunity isn’t about being in the right place at the right time. It’s about seeing things differently.
We’re one of the largest providers of single-family rental homes in the country, with 95,000 homes across the US. We are disrupting the age-old rental industry by hiring innovative people and using technology to dramatically improve the way people find, lease, and love where they live.
We’re driven by the excitement of redefining the real estate industry, of building new technologies and processes, of empowering our team members with state-of-the-art tools and resources, and providing a living experience that changes lives. At Progress, we embrace innovation to make our business win and grow, disrupt conventions, and make decisions quickly with the resources of a large company and the heart of a small one.
Join us and you’ll be surrounded by Progress Makers. From our inspiring leaders, creative problem solvers and doers, to our supportive peers, we’re all working together to stretch, grow and challenge the status quo to deliver a great experience to the people who call our houses their home.