Position Summary: Community Care Plan is currently seeking a passionate, experienced instructional designer who can create, deliver, and oversee educational materials for employee growth or career development. The candidate must have a foundational understanding of instructional design models that produce impactful, measurable results, such as increased employee engagement and improved retention. They must also be able to foster a collaborative, productive learning environment that captures the audience’s attention and helps them meet their development end goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Defines, documents, revisits, and assesses learning objectives.
• Conducts research and collaborates with subject experts.
• Creates instructional material: courses, curriculum, student guides or training manuals.
• Designs content to optimize learning.
• Generates the layout of the learning supports.
• Creates immersive educational experiences for the audience.
• Assesses student progress and aligns the content with their needs.
• Uses core instructional design principles and theories to maximize learning.
• Provides interactive activities and educational resources.
• Maintains projects and organizes course documents.
• Redesigns content to ensure it matches the learner’s needs.
• Creates visual, audio, and interactive learning tools.
• Researches and implements new technologies into instruction.
• Distributes key learning materials to the audience.
• Evaluates existing instructional content and keeps it up to date.
• Develops a cohesive, relevant curriculum by partnering with organization leaders.
• Manages student roster and tracks ongoing progress.
• Provides reports to management as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to perform any other job-related duties assigned by their supervisor or management.

Skills and Abilities:

• In-depth understanding of instructional design models and learning theories
• Ability to use instructional materials and resources effectively
• Graphic design knowledge
• Proficiency in course development software
• Fundamental understanding of HTML
• Creativity
• Training and teaching skills
• Enthusiasm for learning
• Computer proficiency
• Audio and video editing skills
• Ability to navigate learning management systems
• Strong project management skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Concrete verbal and written communication skills

Work Schedule:

As a continued effort to provide a safe and productive work environment, Community Care Plan is currently following a hybrid work schedule. Staff are able to work from home 3 days a week and will report to the office 2 days a week. *****The company reserves the right to change the work schedules based on the company needs.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee may occasionally be required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. The environment includes work inside/outside the office, travel to other offices, as well as domestic travel. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

We are an equal opportunity employer who recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, education or related field
• 3 – 5 years of experience in training and development/instructional design required
• Experience in graphic design
• Good understanding of learning management systems