Instructional Designer

MicroHealth is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Instructional Designer to join our team support our client and team in Vienna, VA. The Instructional Designer contributes to MicroHealth's mission by helping government agencies and companies implement their most critically strategic initiatives. The role of Instructional Designer contributes to MicroHealth through the design, development, and maintenance of instructional material for job training products.
**This is a remote position.
Essential Functions:

• Create and design new and refresher user-centric training products and curriculum that are accurate, correct, flow logically, and consistent with established quality standards.
• Collaborate with curriculum team to revise current training products and curriculum on a regular basis to maintain accurate and current content.
• Consult and work with subject matter experts and cross-department representatives to implement innovations into training products and curriculum.
• Create, document, and improve team processes, standards, and best practices as needed.
• Manage multiple deliverables and timelines to adhere to the established quality standards and processes, like Section 508 compliance, style guide consistencies, and other required review cycles.
• Participate in call reviews, test calls, and other quality activities to ensure effectiveness of training products.
• Assist new hires with onboarding plan, tasks and shadowing as needed.
• Maintain a current knowledge of design and development of instructional materials, incorporating adult learning principles, Blooms Taxonomy, Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluations, and other instructional design concepts.
• Possess a knowledge of instructional design tools that include, but are not limited to, Microsoft Office suite, Section 508 Accessibility Tools, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat reader, and Snagit.
• Ability to conduct needs analysis, write instructional objectives, recommend varied instructional models, create learning solutions, and integrate measurement standards.
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills along with sound presentation and facilitation skills.
• Customer service-focused approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to collaborate and develop strong partnerships across the team, department, and organization.
• Attend team, curriculum, and client meetings as needed.
• Occasionally lead curriculum projects, including driving leadership level decision/initiatives down to project teams.
• Lead key projects/initiatives.
• Select, modify, or create a design and development model appropriate for a given project.
• Occasionally represent the Training team in presenting to the client (e.g., presenting small segments of a formal presentation of curriculum redesign).
• Is viewed as a key contributor and a leader on the team to achieve the overall goals of the training organization

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or four years of instructional design/training delivery experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency in instructional design tools (Microsoft Office suite, Section 508 Accessibility Tools, SharePoint, Adobe Acrobat reader, Snagit)
• Knowledge of adult learning principles, Bloom's Taxonomy, and Kirkpatrick's Levels of Evaluations
• Ability to conduct needs analysis and create effective learning solutions
• Experience in facilitating small group meetings and client interactions
• Customer service-focused approach to problem-solving
• Occasional weekend work may be required based on business needs
• Skill in evaluating and modifying existing instructional materials

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience facilitating training across multiple formats (Instructor-led, Virtual)
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills
• Ability to translate complex concepts into easy-to-understand formats

Salary:

• $65,000 - $70,000

Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee frequently is required to walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee may lift or move objects up to 5 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.
MicroHealth will recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran and ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] with your request and contact information.