Instructional Designer

Profile

Reingold distinguishes itself from other D.C. consulting firms by two things: our serious thirst for impact and our not-so-serious culture. Yes, we are expert technologists, marketers, and designers, joined in focused pursuit of the best strategies for our clients. But we are also regular people who care about the human side of showing up for work each day. In other words, jokes and jeans both make daily appearances here, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
Reingold's mission is to help other mission-driven organizations, whether in the government, nonprofit, or business sector. Our approach requires leveraging the latest communications and digital media techniques to help our clients meet their audiences where they are - often on that little place called the internet. That's where you come in.
We are looking for a learning professional who strives to exceed client needs, keeps in touch with the newest developments in learning, and realizes evidence-based innovative learning solutions.
Here's the Role:
Reingold is hiring an instructional designer to support a portfolio of virtual training projects in the government sector. As an instructional designer, you are a trusted counsel to our clients, understand the complexity of their industry, and have a passion for developing creative solutions that will help them meet competency training requirements with their audiences.
You can expect the following tasks on your running to-do list:
Use evidence-based learning design processes to define and design individual learning items, programs, and curricula on time, on budget, and to quality standards.
Conduct skill needs assessments and task analyses.
Plan and document learning solutions and gain approvals from design leads, subject matter experts (SMEs), and clients; identify existing materials that can be curated and integrated into the learning process.
Write learning objectives that meet industry standards.
Write design specifications to ensure alignment of objectives with assessments, practice, presentation, overviews, integration, and motivation elements.
Conduct quality assurance checks with SMEs and internal technical reviewers; implement their feedback to revise design documents.
Write innovative course outlines and storyboards, audio/video scripts, facilitator and participant guides, job aids, and other materials.
Write engaging instructional materials, including assessments and quizzes, practice exercises with appropriate feedback, simulations, demonstrations, case studies, worked examples, procedural steps, and descriptions of concepts/processes/principles with opportunities for reflection and self-explanation.
Conduct design quality reviews of new and existing learning solutions to confirm consistency.
Collaborate closely with the design team and developers to ensure that finished materials are authored as specified.
Assist in the initial delivery of courses and make appropriate revisions to learning materials based on pilot results.
This role is a good fit for someone with the following qualifications and skills:
Minimum of two years of experience in designing courses and other learning items, preferably in two or more areas.
Demonstrable experience in designing effective e-learning experiences, facilitator and participant guides (for the physical and virtual classroom), online and classroom simulations, and video and audio media.
Strong knowledge of learning science and evidence-based design standards and practices to ensure that learning content is of the highest quality and has the desired business impact.
Strong interpersonal skills.
Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking in finding new ways of doing things.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to write effective instructional text, facilitator materials, audio and video scripts, and other design documents.
Strong collaboration skills, enabling the designer to work effectively with project managers, SMEs, design leads, and other members of the learning team and vendors to ensure that client needs and expectations are met.
Ability to use learning technology and tools, desktop apps, and relevant knowledge tools.
Bachelor's degree in education, psychology, or a related field.
Bonus points if you have:
Higher professional qualifications or a master's degree in a related discipline.
Professional qualification in instructional design or a related discipline.
Experience with learning management systems and virtual classroom software.
Demonstrable experience in designing e-learning that is fully accessible and meets industry-compliant practices.
Demonstrable experience in managing change initiatives.
Demonstrable experience in working in fast-paced environments to deliver required results.
Experience using Articulate Storyline or similar course-authoring programs.
Experience working within the health care, government, or military sectors.
Reingold offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, a fun (and sometimes zany) workplace culture, and growth opportunities in a variety of specialty areas. That means when we find good people (and they find us), they stay around for the long term.
Workspace flexibility, too!
Reingold employees are working remotely until we can safely return to the offices. We know that creativity happens in different ways for different people, so when our offices open, we're going hybrid: Staff members will be allowed to choose how many days they want to work in the office. We'd just like you to live close enough to come in when needed to support the work.
Reingold is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. No phone calls, please.

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