What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Instructional Designers position at HighPoint Digital?
Description
Senior Instructional Designer
HighPoint professionals focus on helping government agencies and companies implement their most critically strategic initiatives. The role of Senior Instructional Designer contributes to HighPoint through the design, development, and maintenance of instructional materials for job training products.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design and conduct training and development programs to improve individual and organizational performance.
- Designs and updates CMS surveyor and provider training delivered via QSEP.
- Supports CEUeligible and compliancedriven courseware.
- May analyze training needs.
- Possesses and applies a comprehensive knowledge across key tasks and high impact assignments.
- Plans and leads major technology assignments.
- Evaluates performance results and recommends major changes affecting short-term project growth and success.
- Functions as a technical expert across multiple project assignments.
- May supervise others.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
- Able to effectively design a course, write course objective, create effective assessment questions, and create appropriate activities.
- Ability to translate complex concepts and ideas and convey them in a simple, easy-to-understand format and flow.
- Clear, timely communication regarding issues, opportunities, barriers, and project risks to all levels and groups; a high level of competence in identifying and adapting to various communications styles.
- Ability to facilitate large group design meetings, focus groups, client meetings, and other initiative meetings.
- Ability to successfully manage work through short timelines, regardless of complexity, and recognize when others are struggling to meet deadlines.
- Understanding of the roles and responsibilities within the various groups supporting the contract and ability to productively navigate the political dynamics of government contractors.
- Ability to effectively identify limitations and barriers at the product level and recommend and execute appropriate solutions and work-arounds that effectively take into consideration the health of the overall program/project
- Willingness to actively seek out opportunities and be seen as an early adopter of new processes and tools.
- Ability to take complex topics and convey them in a simple, easy-to-understand format and flow.
- Ability to conduct needs analysis, write instructional objectives, recommend varied instructional models, create learning solutions, and integrate measurement standards.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills along with sound presentation and facilitation skills.
EDUCATION AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
- 8 years of experience.
- Experience facilitating training over various modes preferred.
ABOUT HIGHPOINT:
HighPoint is a growth-oriented firm that provides a unique, differentiated employee culture relative to our Federal market peers. We leverage this growth-oriented and employee-focused culture to attract and retain a higher grade of talent than our peers to be an employer of choice.
HighPoint helps government agencies elevate the citizen experience (CX) by improving the touchpoints through which citizens interact with government. We were founded in 2006 by Ben Lanius with the spirit of transforming how agencies connect with and empower citizens to deliver on mission-critical objectives.
At HighPoint, our focus is on delivering results that matter. We support and modernize our federal customer's mission critical systems and functions. Agility is at our core: it is the mantra that drives us to succeed. We work quickly, analytically and deliver on agency priorities.
HighPoint is a privately held company with a team of over 130 passionate professionals spread across 12 states in the U.S.
HighPoint Digital, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
HighPoint Digital, Inc. will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with HighPoint's legal duty to furnish information.
HighPoint Digital, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability or veteran status.