Instructional Designer
We are HatchWorks Technologies
We are innovators, technologists, and builders – all dedicated to creating intelligent purpose-built software products and solutions that improve the way people work and live. Our solutions drive revenue, market share, operational efficiencies, and most importantly delightful user experiences for industry leaders in healthcare, financial services, and communications to name a few.
Our key differentiator is our product-centric approach putting the end user first. You will work with user-obsessed experts who always start with “why” before “what” and aspire to build feasible solutions that are viable for our customers’ business and valuable for the end user [alt text – and aspire to build the right solution for the right audience]. We focus on outcomes over output and believe in accelerating time to value for our customers in an agile focused collaborative manner. The fabric behind all of this is our people, culture, and core values holding us all accountable to each other.
About the Role
We are looking for a professional Instructional Designer to design and develop learning and practicing experiences for technical workshops for area high school students as part of our philanthropic enterprises. We are looking someone who has experience redesigning courses, developing entire courses or curriculums and creating training materials, such as teaching manuals and student guides.
Responsibilities
- Create engaging learning activities and compelling course content that enhances retention and transfer
- Work with subject matter experts and identify target audience’s training needs
- State instructional end goals and create content that matches them
- Visualize instructional graphics, the user interface and the finished product
- Conduct instructional research and analysis on learners and contexts
- Apply tested instructional design theories, practice and methods
- Provide exercises and activities that enhance the learning process
- Create supporting material/media (audio, video, simulations, role plays, games etc)
- Decide on the criteria used to judge learner’s performance and develop assessment instruments
- Maintain project documentation and course folders
Requirements and skills
- Proven working experience in instructional design and with instructional technology
- Bilingual Spanish and English
- Excellent knowledge of learning theories and instructional design models
- Lesson and curriculum planning skills
- Solid knowledge of course development software and at least one Learning Management System
- Visual design skills preferred
- Ability to write effective copy, instructional text, audio scripts/video scripts
- BS or MA degree in instructional design, educational technology or similar