Instructional Designer

Instructional Designer

Job Summary

The Instructional Designer serves as a training and development partner responsible for designing, developing and implementing impactful learning content and materials focused on HR processes and technology. This role leverages high impact and agile instructional design methods, tools, and learning theories to craft learning solutions for business and HR stakeholders throughout GPC. The Instructional Designer will help drive HR strategic priorities forward by ensure the successful implementation and utilization of HR programs and technology.

Responsibilities

• Consults, influences, and collaborates with HR stakeholders and functions (Talent and Organizational Development, HRIS, Talent Acquisition, etc.) to conduct comprehensive needs analyses to translate business requirements into learning resources.
• Facilitates curriculum design meetings to establish learning objectives, instructional strategies, project scopes, target audiences, training cadences, resource requirements and constraints analysis.
• Provides training project management and instructional design expertise around new and existing instructor-led and self-paced learning activities through the utilization of standard content production techniques (e.g., ADDIE, SAM).
• Conducts a broad scope of instructional design responsibilities, writes and/or reviews training courses, job aids and internal resources, designs learning activities and assessments, creates online learning content, develops instructor’s guides, other training resources.
• Ensures excellent and precise execution and maintenance of existing training programs.
• Coordinates learning campaigns, enrollments, course offerings, content uploads and course library management with LMS Administrators.
• Implements consistent method for tracking and analyzing training program effectiveness. Makes appropriates improvements as necessary.
• Facilitates train-the-trainer, superuser, and/or end-user classes as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, training, human resources, education, related field; or equivalent education and experience.
• 2-3 years’ experience of training design and development.
• Expert knowledge of industry principles, standards, concepts, practices, and systems, adult learning theory, instructional design principles (i.e., Six Disciplines, ADDIE, SAM), and training evaluation (i.e., Kirkpatrick).·Demonstrated experience with digital enterprise collaboration tools and learning management systems.
• Working knowledge of digital authoring tools (e.g., Articulate Storyline, Rise, and Camtasia). ·Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications – Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated organizational, problem solving, analytical and project management skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, particularly in writing original content and editing legacy materials.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment, manage competing priorities and adapt to impromptu changes as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience of training design and development.
• Experience with Workday.

Leadership

• Embodies the following values: serve, perform, influence, respect, innovate, team.
• Effectively communicates by motivating and inspiring others through clear and proactive communication.
• Delivers results and drives customer success by committing and focusing on outcomes to deliver results and making the customer the center of decisions.
• Makes balanced decisions and thinks strategically by being a forward thinker.

Physical Demands / Working Environment

• Must be able to work in a corporate office setting.

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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC’s policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

About Organization

Founded in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a global service organization engaged in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. The company's Automotive Parts Group distributes automotive replacement parts in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australasia, France, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal.