L&D Instructional Designer

Responsibilities for this Position Location: USA VA Home Office (VAHOME)
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ172532 Type of Requisition:
Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None Suitability: Public Trust/Other Required: Job Family:
Learning & Development Job Qualifications: Skills:
Instructional Design, New Program Development, Professional Development Programs
Certifications: Experience:
8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No Job Description: L&D Instructional Designer
Are you an experienced instructional designer? Do you have hands-on experience building behavioral-based learning programs? Want to work from home using your talent to hand-craft learning solutions that will empower a 30,000+ professional workforce? Want to produce observable, measurable results that enhance skills and enable performance? Then own this opportunity and apply today.
Reporting to the L&D Professional Development Expert, you will design and develop professional 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.
As a team member, you'll hit the ground running by managing your own projects, under the guidance of L&D Design Leadership, and building complex, multi-faceted blended-learning programs that enhance the professional development skills critical to our workforce. You will also seek design excellence, with emphasis on continuous improvement in L&D for yourself, the design team and broader L&D function. HOW YOU 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 millstones 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 and Business Stakeholders. Engagement activities include but are not limited to the following: defining the project and business outcomes; reporting project updates; sharing program design/development progress; and gaining necessary approvals. Under the guidance of L&D Design Leadership or Senior ISD: Conduct discovery activities to determine the desired performance outcomes and existing performance gaps based on enterprise needs analyses and strategic prioritization. Conduct detailed learning needs analyses to determine the skills related to the desired performance outcomes, cascading learning objectives that will enable those outcomes, and measurement strategies for demonstrating the achievement of those outcomes. Solicit insights from subject-matter experts by asking targeted and meaningful questions to fully explore and understand the desired performance, synthesize the information collected, and appropriately incorporate SME feedback into the learning design. 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. Develop all program assets and materials including e-learning courseware, virtual 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 the L&D Operations Team to package, deliver and manage programs through the Learning Management System (as appropriate). Collaborate with the L&D Delivery Team or SMEs to hand-off ILT/VILT programs (as appropriate). This includes high quality facilitation outlines and facilitator preparation support. Produce and archive design documents that appropriately detail the design process and justification for the program. Design documents should include the following: Project Sponsors, Business Outcomes/Impact, Measures of Success, Target Audience, Performance Outcomes, Solution Concept, Measurement Strategy, Learning Objectives, Solution Concept, Learning Activities, and Sequencing and Timing of Learning Activities. Collaborate with L&D Professional Development Expert and appropriate stakeholders to produce marketing material (as applicable) for new or enhanced learning and skill development programs to package and promote offerings it in highly intuitive, digestible, and compelling ways. Ensure that all learning solutions are fully accessibility and meet usability standards. Champion and influence the achievement of our GDIT L&D Mission and guiding principles. Exhibit L&D Excellence and seek continues 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 (typically no more than 5% and virtual in most cases). WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years of related work experience in Instructional Design and/or Learning & Development. In lieu of degree, 12 yrs of related experience is required Track record for delivering measurable performance outcomes that enable skill development. Demonstrated Instructional Design/Development Skills (samples/demo will be required). Demonstrated ability to write performance outcomes, learning objectives and evaluation measures. Experience with facilitator-led, business-minded, professional skills learning design and development; experience with virtual facilitator-led learning design and development is a plus. Working knowledge of learning and performance development best practices. Current experience interacting with senior leaders in a large, fast-paced, highly-complex enterprise is a plus Must be willing to deliver a 15-20 minute presentation to Sr. Leadership as part of the final interview process.
The likely salary range for this position is $70,400 - $105,600. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40 Travel Required:
Less than 10% Telecommuting Options:
Remote Work Location:
Any Location / Remote Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation's most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.
GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.





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L&D Instructional Designer


Are you an experienced instructional designer? Do you have hands-on experience building behavioral-based learning programs? Want to work from home using your talent to hand-craft learning solutions that will empower a 30,000+ professional workforce? Want to produce observable, measurable results that enhance skills and enable performance? Then own this opportunity and apply today.


Reporting to the L&D Professional Development Expert, you will design and develop professional 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.


As a team member, you'll hit the ground running by managing your own projects, under the guidance of L&D Design Leadership, and building complex, multi-faceted blended-learning programs that enhance the professional development skills critical to our workforce. You will also seek design excellence, with emphasis on continuous improvement in L&D for yourself, the design team and broader L&D function.



HOW YOU 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 millstones 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 and Business Stakeholders. Engagement activities include but are not limited to the following: defining the project and business outcomes; reporting project updates; sharing program design/development progress; and gaining necessary approvals. Under the guidance of L&D Design Leadership or Senior ISD: Conduct discovery activities to determine the desired performance outcomes and existing performance gaps based on enterprise needs analyses and strategic prioritization. Conduct detailed learning needs analyses to determine the skills related to the desired performance outcomes, cascading learning objectives that will enable those outcomes, and measurement strategies for demonstrating the achievement of those outcomes. Solicit insights from subject-matter experts by asking targeted and meaningful questions to fully explore and understand the desired performance, synthesize the information collected, and appropriately incorporate SME feedback into the learning design. 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. Develop all program assets and materials including e-learning courseware, virtual 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 the L&D Operations Team to package, deliver and manage programs through the Learning Management System (as appropriate). Collaborate with the L&D Delivery Team or SMEs to hand-off ILT/VILT programs (as appropriate). This includes high quality facilitation outlines and facilitator preparation support. Produce and archive design documents that appropriately detail the design process and justification for the program. Design documents should include the following: Project Sponsors, Business Outcomes/Impact, Measures of Success, Target Audience, Performance Outcomes, Solution Concept, Measurement Strategy, Learning Objectives, Solution Concept, Learning Activities, and Sequencing and Timing of Learning Activities. Collaborate with L&D Professional Development Expert and appropriate stakeholders to produce marketing material (as applicable) for new or enhanced learning and skill development programs to package and promote offerings it in highly intuitive, digestible, and compelling ways. Ensure that all learning solutions are fully accessibility and meet usability standards. Champion and influence the achievement of our GDIT L&D Mission and guiding principles. Exhibit L&D Excellence and seek continues 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 (typically no more than 5% and virtual in most cases). WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years of related work experience in Instructional Design and/or Learning & Development. In lieu of degree, 12 yrs of related experience is required Track record for delivering measurable performance outcomes that enable skill development. Demonstrated Instructional Design/Development Skills (samples/demo will be required). Demonstrated ability to write performance outcomes, learning objectives and evaluation measures. Experience with facilitator-led, business-minded, professional skills learning design and development; experience with virtual facilitator-led learning design and development is a plus. Working knowledge of learning and performance development best practices. Current experience interacting with senior leaders in a large, fast-paced, highly-complex enterprise is a plus Must be willing to deliver a 15-20 minute presentation to Sr. Leadership as part of the final interview process.


The likely salary range for this position is $70,400 - $105,600. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.



Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40



Travel Required:
Less than 10%



Telecommuting Options:
Remote



Work Location:
Any Location / Remote



Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.


We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 30 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.


We connect people with the most impactful client missions, creating an unparalleled work experience that allows them to see their impact every day. We create opportunities for our people to lead and learn simultaneously. From securing our nation's most sensitive systems, to enabling digital transformation and cloud adoption, our people are the ones who make change real.


GDIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.











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