Instructional Designer

Instructional Designer 

3 year contract

Pay Range: $45-$67/hr.

Clearance: eligible to get Secret

Please see application instructions below:

**Portfolio/work samples required: Interactive e-learning, visual learning materials, and instructional video. Candidates should explain their personal contributions and design decisions. When submitting candidates, portfolio work should also be attached.**

Digital Solutions Training & Communications is seeking an experienced, creative, and highly organized instructional designer to support learning and technology.
This is a hands-on role within a small team supporting Lab-wide AI Fluency, ERP and enterprise IT initiatives, and other training and communications needs. The individual will design and develop learning materials, support live sessions, execute communications, and manage the administrative activities that keep training programs running.
We're looking for someone who enjoys both the creative and operational sides of learning. The ideal candidate can take an established plan or learning objective, develop engaging and effective learning experience, and manage the work through completion with minimal oversight.
The role will work closely with the Training & Communications Manager and other team members, who provide overall strategy, priorities, project direction, and subject-matter support.

Instructional Design & Multimedia
•Design and develop web courses, interactive learning, presentations, job aids, documentation, and instructional videos using adult-learning principles.
•Develop activities, scenarios, assessments, and visual explanations that support learning objectives.
•Use Articulate, Camtasia and generative AI to create effective learning experiences.
•Create diagrams, demonstrations, and course layouts using established templates and style guides.

Communications & Project Support
•Plan and execute communications, including writing, scheduling, coordinating reviews/approvals, publication, and follow-up.
•Develop focus-group materials, whiteboards, presentations, and UAT scripts.
•Maintain training websites, resource pages, and documentation.
•Collaborate with team members and progressively work directly with SMEs.

Learning Delivery & Administration
•Host/moderate live and virtual sessions, manage Q&A and participant engagement, and support instruction as needed.
•Manage LMS and participant activities: course setup, enrollment, scheduling, attendance, completions, evaluations, reporting, and follow-up.
•Support ERP training environments, including users, practice data, scenarios, preparation, and technical coordination.
•Independently manage assignments, deadlines, reviews, and quality checks through completion.

Required Skills & Experience
•4–7 years of relevant instructional design/e-learning development experience, or equivalent demonstrated capability.
•ERP/enterprise IT training (e.g., SAP, ServiceNow); training environment and practice data setup.
•Articulate Storyline and Rise; TechSmith Camtasia and Audiate; LMS administration and participant management.
•Experience producing/editing instructional video and using generative AI effectively and responsibly.
•Ability to write and organize clear, engaging communications and confidently host live/virtual sessions.
•Strong creativity, organization, technical aptitude, collaboration, and independent follow-through; comfortable managing concurrent assignments and incorporating feedback.

Preferred Experience
•Instructor-led training; website/content-management tools; experience in large organizational learning environments.
•Government/Higher-Education or IT experience preferred; relevant experience from other industries or educational backgrounds is welcome.

Clearance, interim is sufficient.

Virtual position: Candidates must live within 100 miles for occasional meetings