Lead - Instructional Designer

Job Description

Job Profile: Lead - Instructional Design Total Experience: 7-10 years Relevant Experience: 7-10 yearsSkills Evaluation:

• Skills Test: Chunking and Structuring, Content Writing, Storyboarding, Visualization Design Documents, Reviewing, Client Interaction (Production), Client Interaction (Solutioning), Scoping and Estimation
• Interview: Communication, Articulation, Articulate Storyline, Articulate Rise, HTML5, Custom WBTs, ILTs and VILTs/VCTs, Production Team Coordination, Client Interaction (Production), Client Interaction (Solutioning), Scoping and Estimation, Proposal Writing.

Responsibilities:

• Manage instructional design teams for design and production tasks; plan, monitor, and track ID tasks while keeping deliverables on schedule and within design and quality parameters (2-3 years). Ideate and create engaging, instructionally sound, and learner-centered solutions for instructional design projects by understanding the learning requirement, budget, and shared content; recommend solutions across learning formats, tools, and technologies; visual design input to assist IDs and GDs when designing and developing learning solutions. (2-3 years). Review and enhance course outlines, high and low design documents, scripts, storyboards, course output, and media files across various domains, industries, and learning formats; implement client standards, create checklists, build efficiencies in review process (4-5 years). Communicate and coordinate with the following teams and provide them with relevant inputs:
• Team Members: Communicate work plans, feedback, timelines, project requirements, client expectations, and design approaches/solutions.
• Project Managers: Provide task time estimates and task status; communicate need for resources/infrastructure, create and update project guidelines.
• Practice Managers: Communicate need for support for team development and projects
• Peers: Assist in content review and storyboarding tasks, provide peer reviews for language and quality checks
• Graphics and Programming Teams: Collaborate and brainstorm on visual and interactive strategies to represent content; clarify questions to explain storyboards; assist in reviews and quality control of developed products
• Client Stakeholders: Adopt consultative design approaches, engage in pre-sales interactions, ask questions to clarify content gaps, assist in walkthroughs of deliverables, provide design rationale when required to explain adopted instructional strategy
• Coach and mentor team members in all aspects of instructional design including creating course structures, high- and low-level design documents, scripts, storyboards, templates, and assessments and in soft skills including process adherence, stakeholder communication, accountability, time management, and collaboration (2-3 years).

Skills Manage:

• Create component breakdown for ID tasks
• Manage 5 or more team members
• Create and implement project standards, processes, and templates
• Have cross-functional understanding (PD and GD)
• Ideation and Solution Creation
• Highly proficient in reading and reviewing content across various disciplines
• Ability to review large quantities of content quickly using skim/scan techniques
• Ability to spot patterns in content and structure/sequence in a logical manner
• Awareness of industry standards and generational expectations for eLearning.
• Ability to suggest solutions that maximize time and budget on projects (across learning formats, tools, and technologies) while still ideating an engaging and learner-centered design.
• Deriving client requirements from RFPs and drafting appropriate design approaches for proposals.
• Ability to comprehend content, visualize it conceptually, and collaborate with GDs for appropriate visual representation when needed.
• Compile a task breakdown and budget of the efforts required to deliver the solution.

Review and Enhancement:

• Highly proficient at reviewing content, instructional design and graphic design assets, and developed courses across various disciplines
• Expertise in providing clear constructive feedback to team members for improving file quality and meeting learner needs.
• Ability to ideate new approaches to content treatment while reviewing.
• Eye for detail to spot missing content, typos and grammar errors, project guideline adherence, and consistency in design
• Ability to work with client standards and implement them consistently
• Ability to capture project needs in review checklists to ensure consistent implementation

Language and Grammar:

• Thorough grasp of the English language with advanced level vocabulary and grammar
• Reading comprehension skills applicable across different types of topics and domains
• Ability to write error-free copy at various levels of English complexity
• Ability to write to standards and specifications including geographical and cultural considerations and client-specific jargon and formatting
• Ability to condense information and summarize in a succinct format without losing the original meaning

Communication and Coordination:

• Fluent and relatively unaccented verbal communication skills in English
• Ability to understand accents across geographies and communicate with client teams in a coherent manner
• Maturity to understand process and situation and respond appropriately to client questions
• Ability to simplify language and clarify content to graphics and programming teams

Coach and Mentor:

• Ability to provide clear and constructive feedback to team members for skill development.
• Ability to evaluate team members and their deliverables to pinpoint areas for improvement.
• Ability to provide constructive feedback, model the expectations to the team and provide the scaffolding needed for team members to learn and improve.
• Experience in creating development plans for technical and soft skills with SMART goals and milestones.
• Ability to track and communicate team members developmental progress.

Process and Technology:

• Attention to detail and compliance with standards and checklists for all deliverables
• Openness to learn new processes and technology as required for new clients
• Ability to work with various cross-functional teams in a seamless manner, while keeping in mind corresponding templates and processes

Education and Certification:

• Any (Mass Communication / English Literature / Journalism / Psychology / Education/ Similar)
• Any formal training in writing or design would be a bonus
• Any experience and/or certification in instructional design is highly desired
• Knowledge of or experience with content authoring and/or web media creation tools is a bonus

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Keyskills :
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