Curriculum Developer with ISD and eLearning Experience

Solution Guidance Corporation (SGC) seeks a Curriculum Developer with ISD and eLearning Experience to remotely support various projects as a part of the USMS team. The job is primarily remote, but will require a trip to USMS facility in Georgia for initiation activity and may be require travel intermittently for project support.

Summary

A Curriculum Developer with Instructional Systems Design (ISD) and eLearning is responsible for using computer software and other technologies to streamline education courses for students and professionals. The curriculum developer and agency will be required to develop courseware that are placed on a Department of Justice learning management system and must be in compliance with the applicable requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended 29 U.S.C. 794d by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. The technical standards provide criteria specific to six main categories: Software applications and operating systems, web-based information or applications, Telecommunication products, video, or multimedia products, self-contained, closed products such as information kiosks or fax machines, desktop, and portable computers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours appropriate to the work of the position to be filled. The course work must have included study in at least four of the following five areas:

• Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology: Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, development, and validation of instructional material.
• Instructional design practices: Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, developing design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness.
• Educational evaluation: Study of the techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of instructional/educational programs, including developing written and performance tests and survey instruments, and determining reliability and validity of evaluation instruments.
• Instructional product development: Study of the techniques appropriate for developing training materials, including identifying learner characteristics, specifying objectives, applying training strategy, validating training materials, and evaluating training. OR
• Computers in education and training: Study of the application of computers in education and training, including selecting appropriate computer software.

Five or more years ISD experience in the design and development of curriculum content, training materials, training modules, and teaching aids.

Five or more years using Adobe Captivate to develop and edit eLearning materials.

Demonstrated skill in executing tasks with precision by following set templates without deviation.

Responsibilities

• The curriculum developer will be required to design, enhance, and implement the curriculum development process and to perform instructional system design management within the Training Management Branch of the agency.
• The curriculum developer will be required to develop training materials using instructional systems design methodology, to ensure the agencies training requirements are established and translated into appropriate instructional objectives.
• The curriculum developer will work independently or alongside agency subject matter experts, the positions will translate ideas and concepts into eLearning and ensure quality and consistency in the development process.
• The curriculum developer will utilize instructional system designs methodology and provide instructional performance documents for specific curriculum development.
• The curriculum developer will ensure the curriculum development process follows the six phases of the (ADDIE) model and that the learning objectives have been validated appropriately, and prior to distribution utilizing the ADDIE model which is a framework that lists the generic process traditionally used by instructional designers and training developers (Morrison, 2010, 28). The five phases—Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation—represent a dynamic, flexible guideline for building effective training and performance support tools.
• The curriculum developer will be required to support individual learning needs to include eLearning technologies, web-based content, and interactive collaborative learning environments, via a learning management system.
• The curriculum developer would be responsible for developing the flow and administration of the eLearning production group and would perform quality control procedures.
• The curriculum developer will be responsible for translating ideas and concepts from agency program managers into eLearning training, and ensuring quality and consistency in the development process, and assisting the agency with production of a Standard Operating Procedure for future eLearning products.
• The curriculum developer would be responsible for the successful development and implementation of training and would translate the ideas and learning materials into instructional design methodology.
• The curriculum developer will need to create consistency in the curriculum with a standardized process, design procedure and be able to interpret, troubleshoot technical document problems, critical to the overall quality control of the finished product.
• The curriculum developer shall use, to the maximum extent possible, all previously developed data, curriculum that can be applied toward satisfying the requirements of the agency. This includes government furnished data and curriculum developed by the contractor incident to other contractual requirements. Each curriculum development effort will produce suitable training materials for instructors, learner, observers, participants, and audience.
• The curriculum developer will develop training products which support personnel performance requirements for operational and administrative employees.
• The curriculum developer will participate in Curriculum Development and Review committees and process utilizing their ISD methodologies.

This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote