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Sr. Instructional Designer - K

Aptara, Oakland, California, United States, 94616

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Seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Instructional Designer to support our internal client. In this contract role, you will lead the design and development of technical training programs. Your work will support workforce development, ensure compliance with operational standards, and align with strategic goals.

What You’ll Do: Engage stakeholders to identify skill gaps, learner pain points, and role-based needs for technical content development.

Apply adult learning theories and principles to create clear, engaging, and practical technical skill-building courses.

Balance content creation with program support and operational follow-through.

Communicate effectively and clearly in writing and collaborate with stakeholders, SMEs, clients, IDs, and SLS.

Deep familiarity with the ADDIE instructional design model, Bloom’s taxonomy, Assessment creation, and content management systems.

Conduct needs assessments and front-end analyses to identify training requirements and recommend effective learning solutions.

Collaborate with the Senior Learning Strategists and Instructional Designers to determine learning strategies, create curriculum maps, and assessment approaches.

Work with SMEs to review off-the-shelf courses for inclusion in the Technician curriculum.

Guide the use of appropriate learning technologies and tools to enhance training effectiveness. Propose solutions to stakeholders.

Meet quality standards; perform quality assurance (QA) reviews.

Estimate project costs and develop schedules in collaboration with the Senior Learning Strategist and Instructional Designers.

Manage project execution, ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget.

Facilitate key project meetings, including Kick-offs, Betas, Train-the-Trainers, and Pilots.

Track project status and provide updates to stakeholders.

Proactively identify opportunities for improvement. Collect and analyze training effectiveness metrics and apply continuous improvement strategies.

Archive course materials and complete project close-out activities.

Required Qualifications:

Must have at least 5 years of instructional design experience, including 2 years in a leadership or mentoring role.

Must have strong knowledge of instructional design methodologies for ILT and

technical or trades

environments.

Must have experience designing multi-year technical training programs.

Must have proven experience managing small to mid-sized projects.

Must have excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across functions with diverse stakeholders.

Must be proficient in MS Office, Articulate Storyline, LMS, video production, and web design tools.

Must have experience developing apprenticeship programs in skilled trades.

Must have familiarity with tools such as Questionmark, Author-It, MS Teams, and virtual learning platforms.

Must have familiarity with Artificial Intelligence tools to support efficient work.

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