Instructional & Media Designer

$68,750 - $87,575/Yr

Brookdale Senior Living - Brentwood, TN

Full-time - Mid Level

Brentwood, TN

Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

About the position

As an Instructional & Media Designer at Brookdale, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the learning experience for our associates. Your primary responsibilities will include researching, designing, writing, editing, and maintaining engaging learning materials that cater to various learning styles and needs. You will be tasked with designing, producing, and maintaining multimedia components for media-based instructional content, ensuring that all materials are not only informative but also engaging and effective. Collaboration is key in this role; you will work closely with the Talent Management team and subject matter experts (SMEs) to develop course materials and learning media applications that align with our organizational goals. In addition to content creation, you will provide performance consulting to business owners and stakeholders, helping to identify learning needs and appropriate delivery methods. Your expertise in instructional design principles, adult learning theory, and multimedia technology will be essential in creating effective learning experiences. You will apply project management skills to monitor and maintain project timelines, ensuring that all deliverables are met on schedule. Your role will also involve producing engaging graphics, animations, and other multimedia elements suitable for various delivery formats, including classroom instruction and e-learning. You will be responsible for proofreading learning materials to ensure adherence to style guides and for employing rapid course development methodologies to meet client needs. Furthermore, you will develop quality and learning effectiveness measurement tools to assess the impact of the training initiatives you create. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the professional development of our associates while working in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Researches, designs, writes, edits, and maintains engaging learning materials.
• Designs, produces, and maintains multimedia components for media-based instructional content.
• Collaborates with Talent Management team members and subject matter experts (SME) during the design, development, and integration of course materials and learning media applications.
• Collaborates with talent and learning program managers in planning, scripting, and concept development during all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Provides performance consulting to business owners, stakeholders, and subject-matter-experts.
• Researches, designs, schedules, and implements training initiatives.
• Uses instructional design principles and practices, adult learning theory, multi-media technology and other learning theories and methodologies to design effective learning experiences.
• Applies basic project management skills and methodologies to the instructional design process.
• Monitors and maintains project timelines.
• Determines learning needs and appropriate delivery methods through performance consulting and knowledge of our business.
• Partners with internal clients, stakeholders, and SME to ensure content meets business objectives and is appropriate for the intended audience.
• Collaborates with production team to develop timelines, storyboard/script with text, voice, sound, graphics, and instructions for programming needs.
• Produces engaging graphics, animation, and other multimedia elements suitable for delivery via computer, internet, or print.
• Plans, researches, develops, designs, produces, and maintains multimedia content in support of classroom or computer-based, HTML5 compliant, instructional components.
• Adjusts instructional materials created for one format to another format (e.g., adjusting instructor led materials into e-learning).
• Proofreads learning material for style guide usage and spelling, language, and grammar errors.
• Employs rapid course development methodologies to meet client needs.
• Ensures project documentation and all deliverables are organized and stored within archive resources per organizational guidelines.
• Reports on task and deliverable completions.
• Develops quality and learning effectiveness measurement tools.
• Collaborates with talent management team members, engages in brainstorm sessions, and provides consultations to Brookdale corporate business process owners (BPOs) and SMEs.
• Helps develop concepts from storyboards to finished multimedia course production.
• Implements organizational guidelines and standards for multimedia content production and delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Education, Instructional Design, or other related field required.
• Minimum three years of relevant experience, and a digital portfolio showcase required.
• Experience using authoring tools (e.g., Captivate, Articulate, iSpring) required.
• Experience using SharePoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML5, Captivate variables and advanced actions, CSS, PHP, Camtasia, and JavaScript programming preferred.
• Additional years of relevant experience can be substituted for the education requirement on a year for year basis.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using SharePoint, Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML5, Captivate variables and advanced actions, CSS, PHP, Camtasia, and JavaScript programming preferred.

Benefits

• Full suite of health insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement plans
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Pet Insurance
• Adoption Reimbursement Benefits
• Variety of Associate Discounts
• Advance fees for naturalization application costs for qualified associates.