Associate Instructional Designer, Internal

Western Governors University - Salt Lake City, UT

Full-time - Entry Level

Salt Lake City, UT

Educational Services

About the position

The Associate Instructional Designer, Internal at Western Governors University is responsible for delivering effective learning experiences aimed at developing employees. This role collaborates with various departments to create learning solutions that align with strategic goals, utilizing established instructional design theories and practices to ensure inclusivity and effectiveness in learning outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively and cross-functionally with business leaders and across departments to support operational and organizational initiatives through learning design that identifies the learning need, implements appropriate learning solution, and supports effective change management.
• Communicates ADDIE informed design process, presents design solutions, cultivates consensus and collective decision-making to define project deliverables.
• Consults with lead and leader for guidance, feedback, and suggestions for upskilling.
• Creates project deliverables aligned to quality standards and learning outcomes, which may include job aids, scenario-based learning, eLearning or hybrid learning, assessments, and simulations.
• Manages learning design projects by establishing project roles and timelines, facilitating project meetings and communication with stakeholders, identifying milestones, deliverables, and dependencies, mitigating project risks, and ensuring quality learning products are ready for project team review.
• Utilizes existing project management strategies and templates to provide consistent project experience for clients.
• Provides time estimates for deliverables with increasing accuracy over time.
• Organizes and plans work on multiple projects every two weeks.
• Identifies and builds ways of measuring learning effectiveness (survey, pilot, learning time, assessment effectiveness); analyzes data sources; presents results and recommendations for improvements, and implement revisions.
• Participates in curriculum review process through data analysis, recommendations for improvements, and implementing revisions to learning materials.
• Conducts reviews to ensure learning experiences meet standards of quality with guidance from peer, lead, or leader as needed.
• Develops understanding of a role including measures of success, skills, behaviors, and knowledge necessary to perform.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Understanding of instructional design theories and best practices.
• Experience in project management and delivering learning solutions.
• Ability to analyze data and present findings effectively.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with eLearning development tools.
• Familiarity with competency-based education models.
• Knowledge of change management principles.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage.
• Flexible scheduling options.
• Professional development opportunities.