Instructional Designer

Job Description

Key elements of the role 
•    Leads learning creation projects end-to-end with minimal supervision using ADDIE and agile design methodologies. 
•    Uses knowledge of adult learning theory and instructional design processes to design and develop digital and instructor-led training assets for Glanbia Business Services. 
•    Scopes, designs, and writes learning objectives, scripts, storyboards, assessments. 
•    Reviews, edits, and enhances highly technical content provided by SMEs and translates data information into effective learning content. 
•    Quality checks and tests learning deliverables to ensure compliance to style, quality, brand, and usability guidelines and ensure content accuracy and effective user experience. 
•    Assists in negotiating learning objectives, strategies, plans, and deliverables with stakeholders and subject matter experts. 
•    Uses an efficient, effective and methodical approach to instructional planning, script writing and storyboard development. 
•    Actively engages in continuous improvement efforts: conducts surveys/focus groups, conducts project debriefs, documents processes and best practices, and generates ideas for innovative solutions and approaches for future projects. 
 

Qualifications 
•    Bachelor’s degree in related field Instructional Design, Learning and Development or equivalent education / experience. 

Skills

Experience 
•    5+ years of instructional design experience and working with content developers and SMEs. 
•    Experience with transforming technical content into an engaging and interactive learning experience via multiple modalities including instructor-led training (classroom and virtual), eLearning, videos, and job aids. 
•    Has a natural curiosity and experience working on highly technical topics such as data analytics, financial/sales systems, production planning & execution, emerging software and technology. 
•    Ability to think critically and probe into highly technical topics and translate into more simple, relatable & compelling training content. 
•    Experience with agile and iterative processes to design for large-scale, complex programs with differing learning paths and components by learner role. 
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as strong presentation and organizational skills. 
•    Ability to implement feedback received from manager and stakeholders and apply learnings to future projects. 
•    Experience providing direction, coaching, and feedback to others. 
•    Ability to successfully apply project management processes to independently lead and manage multiple projects, stakeholders, developers, and overlapping deadlines and adapt to project challenges as they arise. 
•    Ability to leverage project management tools with accuracy and consistency to plan out projects and timelines, delegate project tasks, and track project progress. 
•    Strong attention to detail for editing, quality-checking, UX-testing in order to deliver high-quality results. 
•    Strong eye for visual design or experience working in a graphic design field in order to validate solution learner experience for learner usability and visual attractiveness. 

Preferred experience: 
•    Experience working with SAP Enable Now, Atriculate, SAP ERP. 
•    Recent experience applying authoring and video development tools to create and/or edit digital learning assets. 
•    Experience leading in-person or virtual technical training content development in a corporate/global setting. 
 
Essential Software Experience 
•    SAP Enable Now 
•    Microsoft 365 
•    Articulate 360 
Preferred Software Experience 
•    Learning Management Systems (i.e. SAP Success Factors) 
•    Camtasia 
•    Adobe Creative Cloud 
•    Vyond 
•    Powtoons