Instructional Technologist

Description

Are you ready for a rewarding career challenge?

Unleash your potential at Leidos, where we make smart smarter by delivering innovative technical, engineering, and science solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community.

Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Are you a talented, creative, detail-oriented, tech comfortable, and people-focused learning designer looking for a fresh challenge? Your search ends here! We're seeking a full-time Instructional Technologist with the skills to design, develop, deliver and evaluate specialized and technical training for our dynamic clients. From engaging classroom instruction to online learning modules to experiential activities, you'll use your expertise to advance our clients' training missions.

As a successful candidate, you'll make a difference by helping our clients build a comprehensive curriculum that expands their specialized knowledge and skills to improve their mission performance and make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient. Your communication skills and ability to help instructors and experts craft engaging learning environments and instruction that enables learners to feel present and ready for their training will increase learners’ retention which will have a major impact on their ability to apply their learning to their jobs.

Your ability to analyze requirements and then create effective and enriching learning interventions across a variety of mediums, platforms, and levels will support successful outcomes for our clients’ missions. And your tech savvy will help our clients incorporate, evaluate, and implement the new tools and technologies that are changing our world.

If you're ready to take your skills to the next level, we want to hear from you! Apply today and take the first step towards a fulfilling and rewarding career with Leidos.

Your greatest work is ahead!

• Work as part of a team to support a dynamic specialized training program.
• Conduct consultations with instructors and course directors to determine instructional requirements, needs, and solutions and assist with course/content approval process.
• Manage training design and development projects including collaborating with technical designers to develop products in support of the training, reporting on progress, and using a database to track projects.
• Analyzing training requirements and designing and developing effective and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning interventions.
• Document, update, and maintain course lesson plans.
• Develop and update online training content including WBTs, job aids, videos, podcasts, etc.
• Conduct training, when required, on instruction techniques, facilitate small-groups, and lead discussion sessions in classes in support of course instructors.
• Integrate technology, including AI tools and solutions, into content and into development workflows.
• Act as a role-player during training courses.
• Create new content and/or improve the design and delivery of existing instructor-led and online content.
• Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data in support of course/content evaluation and develop actionable recommendations based on the data for the continual improvement of the product/program.
• Facilitate small group discussions.
• Design, administer, and analyze the results of training-related surveys and assessments.
• Provide reporting on training activities as required.
• Execute diplomacy working with various levels of team members, managers, and customer to identify requirements and develop action plans.
• Partner cross-functionally with other team members, such as AV, IT, instructors, and production teams, to accomplish tasks and complete projects.
• Work with customers to coordinate resources, prioritize activities, and ensure quality and timely products.
• Utilize a project tracking tool…