Senior Instructional Designer

Reingold, a social-impact marketing and communications firm, is hiring a senior instructional designer to join our team. This is a remote or hybrid role, depending on whether you live within commuting distance of our headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. 

We’re looking for the usual things: intelligence, attention to detail, excellent time management skills, exceptional communications skills, and rave reviews. But we’re also looking for more: strong initiative, willingness to work hard and think hard, commitment to the team, practical perfectionism, self-discipline, a collaborative spirit, and a sense of humor.

We are looking for a learning professional who strives to exceed client needs, keeps in touch with the newest developments in learning, and carries out evidence-based innovative learning solutions.

Here’s the Role

Reingold is hiring an instructional designer to support a portfolio of virtual training projects in the government sector. As an instructional designer, you are a trusted counsel to our clients, understand the complexity of their industry, and have a passion for developing creative solutions that will help them meet competency training requirements with their audiences.

This role may be fully remote or involve a flexible hybrid work model that accommodates virtual and in-office collaboration. If you are local to our headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, you will be required to be in the office at least two days per week. If you’re local to our Raleigh, North Carolina, office, you’ll be required be in the office at least one day per week.

You can expect the following tasks on your running to-do list:

• Use evidence-based learning design processes to define and design individual learning items, programs, and curricula on time, on budget, and to quality standards.
• Conduct needs assessments and task analyses.
• Plan and document learning solutions and gain approvals from design leads, subject matter experts (SMEs), and clients; identify existing materials that can be curated and integrated into the learning process.
• Write learning objectives that meet industry standards.
• Write design specifications to ensure alignment of objectives with assessments, practice, presentation, overviews, integration, and motivation elements.
• Write innovative course outlines and storyboards, audio/video scripts, facilitator and participant guides, job aids, and other materials.
• Write engaging instructional materials, including assessments and quizzes, practice exercises with appropriate feedback, simulations, demonstrations, case studies, worked examples, procedural steps, and descriptions of concepts/processes/principles with opportunities for reflection and self-explanation.
• Conduct design quality reviews of new and existing learning solutions to confirm consistency.
• Conduct quality assurance checks with SMEs and internal technical reviewers; implement their feedback to revise design documents.
• Collaborate closely with the design team and developers to ensure that finished materials are authored as specified.
• Assist in the initial delivery of courses and make appropriate revisions to learning materials based on pilot results.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in education, psychology, instructional design, or a related field.

Experience:

• Minimum of 4–6 years with a master’s degree or 5–6 years with a bachelor’s degree in training development, with experience in designing and creating courses and other learning items. K–12 training experience will not count toward this requirement.

Skills:

• Demonstrable experience in designing effective e-learning experiences, facilitator and participant guides (for the physical and virtual classroom), online simulations, and video and audio media.
• Strong knowledge of adult learning principles, learning science and evidence-based design standards, and practices to ensure that learning content is of the highest quality and has the desired business impact.
• Experience in using the ADDIE model of instructional design, Richard Mayer’s 12 principles of multimedia learning, and the Kirkpatrick Model of evaluation.
• Demonstrable experience in designing e-learning that is fully accessible and meets industry-compliant practices.
• Creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to write effective instructional text, facilitator materials, audio and video scripts, and other design documents.
• Strong collaboration skills, enabling the designer to work effectively with project managers, SMEs, design leads, other members of the learning team, and vendors to ensure that client needs and expectations are met.
• Experience in working in fast-paced environments to deliver required results.
• Ability to use learning technology and tools, desktop apps, and relevant knowledge tools.

Preferred Experience:

• Higher professional qualifications or a master’s degree in a related discipline.
• Professional qualification in instructional design or a related discipline.
• Experience in managing change initiatives.
• Experience using Articulate Storyline or similar course-authoring programs.
• Experience working within the health care, government, or military sectors.

Reingold offers competitive salaries, a comprehensive benefits package, a hybrid and collaborative work environment, a fun (and sometimes zany) workplace culture, and growth opportunities in a variety of specialty areas. That means when we find good people (and they find us), they stick around for the long term. 

Reingold is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment and to providing equal opportunity for individuals of all abilities. If you require assistance or need accommodations at any stage of the application process because of a disability or medical condition, please feel free to email [email protected] or contact a member of the People & Experience team at 202-333-0400. 

Reingold has a policy of maintaining a workplace free of drugs and alcohol. For access to the full policy, which is part of the Reingold Employee Handbook, email [email protected]. Reingold ensures a safe, healthy, and productive work environment for its employees and others. All applicants are advised that full compliance with this policy is a condition of employment at Reingold. 

Applicants must have authorization to work for any employer in the United States. We are currently unable to sponsor or to take over sponsorship of an employment visa.

Reingold is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.