Senior Instructional Designer

We have an outstanding Contract to Hire position for a Senior Instructional Designer to join a leading Company located in the Falls Church, VA surrounding area.

As a senior team member, you'll hit the ground running, designing and developing professional skill development programs for the enterprise that are highly relevant, business-minded, and leader-championed to enablethe immediate application of new skills on-the-joband enableperformance results.You'll manage your own projects, build complex, multi-faceted instructor-led learning programs, and seek design excellence, with emphasis on continuous improvement in L&D for yourself, the design team, and the broader L&D function.

Responsibilities:

• Balance the workload of multiple L&D Projects perthe agreed-upon timelines established by the L&D Design Leadership and Business Sponsors; this includes providing high-quality products and proactively following through on all project tasks and milestones for timely delivery.
• Facilitate the L&D Project kickoffs and subsequent milestone meetings with Business Sponsors and appropriately engage other L&D Resources, Subject Matter Experts, Business Stakeholders, and Senior Leaders.
• Engagement activities include but are not limited to the following: defining the project and business outcomes; reporting project updates; sharing program design/development progress; and gainingnecessary approvals.
• Conduct discovery activities to determine the desired performance outcomes, performance gaps based on enterprise needs analyses and strategic prioritization, cascading learning objectives that will enable those outcomes, and measurement strategies for demonstrating the achievement of those outcomes.
• Determine the most effective learning approaches, techniques, and technologies to efficiently achieve the learning objectivesand desired performance outcomes.
• Communicate to business stakeholders the clear connections between program content and the desired performance outcomes inachieving business results to gainsign-off.
• Design program events, activities, and exercises (including sequencing and timing), while also ensuring that learning is relevant, business-minded, and engaging for participants.
• Produce design documents that appropriatelydetail the design process and justification forthe program.
• Develop all program assets and materials, including workshop events, facilitation guides, learner workbooks, job aids, etc.
• Establish measurement and monitoring plans to ensure effective implementation of all new programs through targeted curriculum mapping and metrics capture.
• Collaborate with the internal L&D teamto implement learning solutions.
• Collaborate with L&D leadership and appropriate stakeholders to produce marketing material (as applicable) for new or enhanced learning and skill development programs to package and promote offerings in highly intuitive, digestible, and compelling ways.
• Ensure that all learning solutions are fully accessible and meet usability standards.
• Champion and influence the achievement of our L&D Mission and guiding principles.
• Exhibit L&D Excellence and seek continuous professional development.
• Build strong consultative partnerships with Project Sponsors and Business Stakeholders.
• Position requires the ability to facilitate sessions up to 10% of the time.

Attributes of a Successful Candidate:

• You've got positive energy and are excited to collaborate with peers, SMEs, and leadership on business-minded learning solutions.
• You appreciate direct communication.
• You're both an active communicator and an eager listener, because let's face it, you can't have one without the other.
• You're cool withcandid feedback and seeevery setback as an opportunity to grow.
• You have a 'can-do' attitude and can pivot on the fly.
• Our team createshigh-quality work on quickand sometimes dynamicallychanging timelines.
• Owning a problem doesn't scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission.
• You're never tired of learning and always seekto makeyourself and othersaround you better.
• You want to be part of a winning team that is rankedas an organization that excels atlearning and human capital development by Training magazine.

Basic Hiring Criteria:

• Bachelor's Degree AND 10+ years of related work experience in facilitator-led Instructional Design in a corporate environment in a Learning & Development function; Master's degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Design certificates are a plus.
• Demonstrated Instructional Design/Development Skills in professional or soft skills instructor-led learning (samples/demo will be required).
• This role must be ata company location at least 3 days per week; must live within a commutable distance from a company office.
• Track record for delivering measurable performance outcomes that enable skill development.
• Demonstrated ability to write performance outcomes, learning objectives, and evaluation measures.
• Working knowledge of learning and performance development best practices.
• Current experience interacting with senior leaders in a large, fast-paced, highly complex enterprise.
• Must be willing to deliver a 15-20-minute presentation to Sr. Leadership as part of the final interview process.
• Experience designing complex, multi-component professional skill or leadership development and/or onboarding programs is a plus.
• Experience in government contracting program/project leadership is a plus.