L&E Instructional Designer/PM

Full-Time, Remote

3 month, W2 Contract

Are you a skilled Instructional Designer who has experience consulting with senior corporate leaders? Do you have project management expertise and extensive experience in workforce skill mapping?

In this project, you will collaborate across functional teams (e.g., Learning & Effectiveness, Knowledge Management, ECS stakeholders) to create a user-friendly learner journey map (“Curriculum Roadmap”) that clearly illustrates the professional development experience and skill/competency expectations from Associate through Partner/Principal.

About the Organization

In this role you will work with Reify Media’s client; A global professional services firm, recognized for its industry leadership, who employs thousands worldwide. The L&D team focuses on employee consulting and technical skill development and prioritizing career pathway planning and professional growth.

Core responsibilities:

• Design a client-centric, content architecture to optimize UX of the existing Curriculum Roadmap design and anticipate needs and questions of the end user.
• In partnership with the business learning team and ECS stakeholders, define and map firm-wide skills framework by first defining the core technical skills for each service line and level.
• Inventory existing learning content, including curated learning pathways and milestone programs, and tag content to skills, level, service line, solution, etc. for input into the Curriculum Roadmap.
• Perform content/skills gap analysis based on above content inventory and report to findings to business learning team.
• Other related tasks in support of project completion as identified.

Required skills:

• Instructional Design
• Needs analysis
• Project Management
• Journey mapping
• Curriculum mapping
• Content inventory/content architecture
• Skill/competency mapping, tagging
• Skills gap analysis
• Strong executive presence
• Strong communication skills
• Time management, self-directed
• Consultative skills

Qualifications & experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of seven years of proven success in progressive design, development and deployment, management roles and project management, ideally in a matrixed environment within a professional services industry
• Experience designing highly interactive, experiential Instructor led and blended learning solutions utilizing various platforms
• Knowledge of how professional service firms and their various business segments work, how they make a profit and what makes them successful
• Consultative skills – ability to lead and collaborate with clients/stakeholders on the assessment, design, development and delivery of innovative and effective learning and performance solutions that align with the strategic business needs of the organization
• Strong foundation in adult learning theory, and instructional systems design, and experience with advanced learning methodologies, frameworks, technologies and the use of social media to produce behavior change and performance results
• Proven expertise in prioritization, delegation and negotiation with demonstrated ability to be effective in supporting multiple stakeholders working in various locations across different business units
• Strong verbal, written communication & presentation skills
• Solid PC skills with expert proficiency in MS Office – specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Knowledge of and experience with learning development tools such as Articulate Studio, Storyline, Camtasia, Captivate, GOMO, etc.
• A portfolio of work samples – such as participant materials, design documents, storyboards, eLearning content for instructional design