E - learning Instructional Designer

Learning And Development Specialist

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. In this role, you will design, develop, and implement high-impact enterprise learning and skill development programs for a professional workforce of nearly 30,000 employees, ensuring the highest levels of stakeholder satisfaction and engagement, business alignment, and measurable performance impact.

Meaningful Work And Personal Impact:

• Balance the workload of multiple L&D Projects per the agreed upon timelines established by the L&D Design Lead and Executive Sponsors. This includes providing high quality products and proactively following through on all project tasks and milestones for timely delivery.
• Facilitate the L&D Design Project kickoffs and subsequent L&D Design Project milestone meetings with Senior Level Leaders (Business Sponsors) and appropriately engaging other L&D Resources, Subject Matter Experts and Business Stakeholders.
• Conduct discovery activities to determine the desired performance outcomes and existing performance gaps based on enterprise needs analyses and strategic prioritization.
• Provide a consultative approach when gaining 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.
• Make recommendations on the targeted program outcomes and learning needs based on discovery activities.
• Determine ideal learning activities leveraging multi-media techniques and technologies to maximize engagement, learner experience, and efficiently achieve the learning objectives and desired performance outcomes.
• Communicate to business stakeholders the clear connections between program content/approach and the desired performance outcomes in achieving business results to gain design sign-off.
• Design program events, learning activities, and exercises (including sequencing and timing) leveraging the best use of graphics and multi-media, while also ensuring that learning is relevant, business-minded and engaging for participants.
• 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 Delivery Team to hand-off programs (as appropriate). This includes loading and testing programs within the learning management system.
• Champion and influence the achievement of our GDIT L&D Mission and guiding principles, modeling the use of GDIT'S established Results-Orientated Agile Design process, tools, and templates.
• Exhibit L&D Excellence and seek continues professional development.

What You'll Need To Succeed:

• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science. Master's degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Design certificates strongly preferred.
• Required Experience: 8+ years in corporate Instructional Design/Development or related role.
• Demonstrated ISD experience with a strong portfolio including eLearning design documents (required for interview).
• Track record for delivering measurable performance outcomes that enable skill development.
• Demonstrated ability to design end-to-end interactive eLearning programs inclusive of evaluation measures.
• Proficiency with eLearning authoring tools (Articulate) and instructional technology best practices.
• Experience implementing 508 accessibility and other eLearning standards.
• Exemplary communication, relationship building, and collaboration skills.
• Location: This position requires a minimum of three (3) days per week in a GDIT office.

It would great if you also had:

• Multi-media, video production, and/or graphic design skills and experience.
• Technical/IT-related learning experience.
• Demonstrated ability develop interactive e-Learning courses with intuitive interfaces and navigation.
• Demonstrated excellence with graphics, audio, video, and other multi-media to promote learning.

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.

GDIT Is Your Place:

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

The likely salary range for this position is $70,975 - $96,025. 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: Hybrid Work Location: USA VA Falls Church 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. 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.