At the heart of our company is our people. People from many different backgrounds with different vantage points, opinions, and experiences. We strive to continually lead with our IMPACT values and empower our employees to develop their full potential on a team that is passionate about acceptance, inclusivity, and achievement. Our employees are the driving force for the innovation, collaboration and creativity that enables our organization to deliver strategic success.
We are seeking a highly skilled eLearning Developer who can support our growing course list in the Environment, Health and Safety, Human Resources and Leadership and Development content teams. The successful candidate will have a strong background in eLearning development tools such as Articulate Storyline. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing engaging and interactive eLearning content. The eLearning Developer needs to have experience in instructional design principles, multimedia development, eLearning technologies, time management, and organizational skills.
Job Summary:
The eLearning Developer is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing eLearning courses and supplemental materials for Simplify Compliance customers. The eLearning Developer will engage and collaborate with various sponsors including Editorial staff, and Learning & Development colleagues. This role will assist with leveraging adult learning theories, instructional design principles, and user experience best practices for the continuous improvement of Simplify Compliance learning assets. The primary focus of this role is to develop eLearning courses.
Primary Duties and Responsibility:
- Use Articulate Storyline and other design and development tools to synchronize audio, design layouts, edit course content, and publish eLearning courses consistently.
- Design and develop eLearning courses using Articulate Storyline; assist at all phases throughout the design and development lifecycle, including working with Editorial to understand the scope of the project and set expectations, write scripts for video and audio content, and create visual, audio, and interactive learning tools.
- Maintain existing courses as applicable; incorporate user experience enhancements, apply instructional design best practices, and apply updates as applicable to art, graphics, learning treatments, and subject matter to ensure accuracy and relevance.
- Provide input for supplemental material templates and overarching designs; ensure accuracy relative to subject matter and adherence to standards through peer reviews, ensuring brand standards are maintained and not diluted.
- Collaborate with voice-over talent, content development teams, internal SMEs, and other members of the eLearning team to develop eLearning deliverables according to the timelines set in the Production queue.
- Update and maintain department records as needed, such as but not limited to control and edit logs, quality control checklists and guidelines, and various data points.
Critical Competencies:
- Innovative Thinking - Consistently demonstrates a passion for innovative thinking and idea generation, successfully obtains buy-in from relevant stakeholders, can navigate the creative process, and can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.
- Ownership & Execution - Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the use of existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others.
- Enthusiasm & Passion - Communicates a compelling and inspired vision of core purpose, focused on the future (not the past), inspires others to take the journey, and sparks passion and creativity among those around them.
- Manages Ambiguity & Change - Makes decisions with available information that aligns with strategy, embraces, and manages change, challenges the status quo, champions new initiatives, and comfortably manages risk and uncertainty.
The Individual:
- Strong experience with eLearning course-building tools, specifically Articulate Storyline (preferred) or similar.
- Strong organizational and time management skills and the ability to independently manage multiple projects in a demanding environment.
- Comfortable working in a matrix organization with the ability to work effectively in a diverse and geographically dispersed work environment.
- Excellent Communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Able to efficiently acquire new skills based on emerging technologies.
- Experience using audio/video editor software.
- Technically proficient and possess creative and intuitive problem-solving ability.
- Knowledge and practical application of adult learning principles to products to facilitate learning and enhance user experience.
- Proficient in instructional design theories and best practices.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office Suite, especially PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook as well as Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.
- Graphic Design and Consulting experience a plus.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree (Instructional Design, Learning and Development, Education, or similar) or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.