Job Description

Position Title Senior Instructional Designer

Position Type Full Time

Position Location Arlington, VA (Must reside in DC/MD/VA)

Tracking Code 01044

Daily Responsibilities

• Crafts strategies to deal with initiatives such as blended, mobile, multimodal, gaming, focused experiential and simulation-based learning.
• Works closely with leadership and subject matter experts to conceptualize, design, and create solutions that meet learning needs.
• Serve as a thought leader and innovator in digital learning solutions for the Foreign Service Institute.
• Monitor the work of Instructional Designers
• Recommend personnel for projects based on skills and abilities, monitor the section for workload, identify common issues among different projects, and propose new instructional strategies as appropriate.
• Conducts needs assessments and identifies digital learning approaches most appropriate to address performance gaps, work context, and audience needs.
• Identifies appropriate technology to address curricular needs and designs solutions to meet those gaps.
• Creates digital learning strategies that employ various methods and technologies to best address curricular needs; that is, identifies whether (and explains why) a solution should be comprised of single e-learning course, multiple courses, or a mixture of microlearning, mobile apps, synchronous seminars, etc.
• Oversees a team of instructional designers who interact with other training professionals to produce online learning materials.
• Recommends personnel for projects based on skills and abilities.
• Monitors work products of instructional designers and escalates concerns as appropriate.
• Provides support to instructional designers to facilitate tight timelines in a results-oriented environment and advises improvements to design using coaching and mentoring techniques.
• Acts as liaison between section and other technical staff, if necessary.
• Represents the section in planning meetings with government staff.
• Maintains a thorough knowledge of subjects important to Foreign Service Officers and applies knowledge to produce appropriate, effective, and meaningful learning solutions.
• Participates in corporate or customer activity meetings that are determined to be mandatory. These may include weekly meetings, Internal Program Review (IPR) meetings, ad-hoc meetings, business development meetings, manager training sessions and other meetings designated “as required.”
• Be prepared to receive additional training for products and services that relate directly to the position.

Required: Years of Experience (min)

• 6 years of instructional design experience.

Required: Degree

• MS/MA in instructional design, educational technology, or related field.

Required: Experience

• Minimum 6 years of instructional design experience.
• A master’s degree and 6 years of experience are needed to in order to provide thought leadership, create new curricular strategies, and envision new/cutting edge learning products to specifically meet the unique global needs of the department, as well as lead a team of instructional designers in doing so.
• Demonstrated experience with a broad array of digital learning solutions (including, but not limited to: e-learning courses, mobile learning, simulations, microlearning, ePublishing, blended learning/flipped classroom, and games.)
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to conduct needs/audience analysis, develop training objectives, create instructional strategy, design learning solutions, and produce evaluations.
• Demonstrated knowledge of a wide range of learning theories and models, and how they apply to different learning contexts.
• Demonstrated experience working with project teams (e.g.: Graphic Artists, Developers, and Editors) to produce professional e-learning.
• Demonstrated knowledge of responsive web design, interface usability guidelines, Section 508 accessibility, SCORM, learning management systems, and integration of media into web-based training applications.
• Demonstrated experience as a team lead, including mentoring/coaching junior staff.

Additional Desired Experience

• Familiarity with US government web/mobile development policies and standards.
• Knowledge of language learning principles.
• Experience with video/animation

Required: Clearance

• Low risk public trust with ability to obtain secret

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