Sr. Instructional Designer

Location: Falls Church, VA - Hybrid Remote Eligibility: Candidate must be eligible to be employed in the United States

Job Description: As a senior team member, you’ll hit the ground running, designing and developing professional skill development programs for the enterprise that are highly relevant, business-minded, and leader-championed to enable the immediate application of new skills on-the-job and enable performance results. You’ll manage your own projects, build complex, multi-faceted instructor-led learning programs, and seek design excellence, with emphasis on continuous improvement in L&D for yourself, the design team and broader L&D function. How a Senior Instructional Designer Will Make an Impact Balance the workload of multiple L&D projects per the agreed upon timelines established by the L&D Design Leadership and Business Sponsors. This includes providing high quality products and proactively following through on all project tasks and milestones for timely delivery. Facilitate the L&D project kickoffs and subsequent milestone meetings with Business Sponsors and appropriately engaging other L&D Resources, Subject Matter Experts, Business Stakeholders, and Senior Leaders. Engagement activities include defining the project and business outcomes; reporting project updates; sharing program design/development progress; and gaining necessary approvals. Conduct discovery activities to determine the desired performance outcomes, performance gaps based on enterprise needs analyses and strategic prioritization, cascading learning objectives that will enable those outcomes, and measurement strategies for demonstrating the achievement of those outcomes. Determine the most effective learning approaches, techniques, and technologies to efficiently achieve the learning objectives and desired performance outcomes. Communicate to business stakeholders the clear connections between program content and the desired performance outcomes in achieving business results to gain sign-off. Design program events, activities, and exercises (including sequencing and timing), while also ensuring that learning is relevant, business-minded and engaging for participants. Produce design documents that appropriately detail the design process and justification for the program. Develop all program assets and materials including workshop events, facilitation guides, learner workbooks, job aids, etc. Establish measurement and monitoring plans to ensure effective implementation of all new programs through targeted curriculum mapping and metrics captures. Collaborate with internal L&D team to implement learning solutions. Collaborate with L&D leadership and appropriate stakeholders to produce marketing material (as applicable) for new or enhanced learning and skill development programs to package and promote offerings in highly intuitive, digestible, and compelling ways. Ensure that all learning solutions are fully accessible and meet usability standards. Champion and influence the achievement of our L&D Mission and guiding principles. Exhibit L&D Excellence and seek continuous professional development. Build strong consultative partnerships with Project Sponsors and Business Stakeholders. Position requires the ability to facilitate sessions up to 10% of the time. Attributes of a Successful Candidate You’ve got positive energy and are excited to collaborate with peers, SMEs, and leadership on business-minded learning solutions. You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener—because let’s face it, you can’t have one without the other. You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow. You have a “can do” attitude and can pivot on the fly. Our team creates high-quality work on quick and sometimes dynamically changing timelines. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving our mission. You’re never tired of learning and always seek to make you and others around you better. You want to be part of a winning team that is ranked as an organization that excels at learning and human capital development by Training magazine. Qualifications to Apply Bachelor’s Degree AND 10+ years of related work experience in facilitator-led Instructional Design in a corporate environment in a Learning & Development function. Master’s degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Design certificates a plus. Demonstrated Instructional Design/Development Skills in professional or soft skills instructor-led learning (samples/demo will be required). This role must be at a client location at least 3 days per week; must live within a commutable distance from a client office. Track record for delivering measurable performance outcomes that enable skill development. Demonstrated ability to write performance outcomes, learning objectives and evaluation measures. Working knowledge of learning and performance development best practices. Current experience interacting with senior leaders in a large, fast-paced, highly complex enterprise. Must be willing to deliver a 15–20-minute presentation to Sr. Leadership as part of the final interview process. Experience designing complex, multi-component professional skill or leadership development and/or onboarding programs a plus. Experience in government contracting program/project leadership a plus.