[Remote] Senior Instructional Systems Designer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Softek Services, Inc. is seeking a senior instructional designer to develop performance-based instructor-led training and eLearning for adult learners. The role includes analyzing job tasks and qualification requirements, facilitating workshops, creating learning materials and realistic practice activities, and ensuring technical accuracy and alignment with applicable standards.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate analysis and design workshops with clients, stakeholders, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to identify job tasks, performance requirements, learner needs, and course content
• Ask focused questions and probe for details to elicit, clarify, synthesize, and document information, including when source material is incomplete or perspectives differ
• Analyze job duties, qualification requirements, learner needs, and performance gaps to guide training design
• Design performance-based ILT and develop instructor and participant guides, activities, assessments, and blended learning materials aligned with job tasks and learning objectives
• Design realistic scenarios, exercises, simulations, and other activities that give learners practice with job tasks, higher-order thinking, and operational decision-making
• Design and storyboard eLearning courses, defining the content, sequence, learner flow, interactions, and assessments for development
• Translate complex technical and doctrinal material into clear, accurate, learner-focused content
• Work with SMEs and clients to validate content and align products with applicable doctrine, standards, and requirements
• Review materials for accuracy, terminology, consistency, accessibility, and quality; support client reviews and course pilots
• Contribute to proposal development as needed

Skills

• Degree in instructional design, education, curriculum design, organizational development, adult learning, or a related field
• At least 10 years of instructional design and course development experience for adult learners
• Experience with the full instructional design lifecycle, including analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation
• Demonstrated ability to analyze job tasks or performance requirements and align training with them
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate analysis or design workshops and elicit, synthesize, and document detailed information from stakeholders and SMEs
• Experience working with complex technical, operational, or doctrinal source material and ensuring accuracy in the resulting training products
• Strong instructor-led training design, technical writing, editing, and analytical skills
• Exceptional attention to detail, including the ability to verify technical accuracy, terminology, and consistency across materials
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, manage multiple course development projects, and meet deadlines
• Applicants must meet the required qualifications
• Submit at least three relevant work samples demonstrating instructional design expertise. Samples may be redacted to protect confidential information. Include examples that demonstrate performance-based design; eLearning storyboards are welcome
• Experience developing training for federal agencies, emergency management, incident management, public safety, or other qualification-based workforces

Benefits

• Primarily remote

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