Remote Instructional Designer

Summary

Join Sand Cherry Associates as an experienced Instructional Designer to create and implement Sales and Finance training for a new hire program. This role requires strong instructional design experience, collaboration with Leadership and Development, Sales, Finance, and other teams, and the ability to gain advanced knowledge of assigned programs, functional disciplines, and industry knowledge quickly.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Communications, Education, or related discipline
• Minimum of 4-5 years creating and delivering content in a highly technical environment
• Experience with developing and administering sales training programs
• Knowledge of oil and gas or finance industries strongly preferred
• Entry level knowledge of adult learning principles and new hire programs
• Skilled in coordinating training efforts including scheduling classrooms, printing materials, accessing training databases, and using and troubleshooting training technology
• Knowledge of how to conduct a training needs assessment
• Basic knowledge of the curriculum development process including analysis, instructional design, developing outlines, learning objectives, materials, and assessments
• Ability to communicate complex training content to participants, answer questions, and ensure understanding
• Ability to facilitate and deliver digital/online, classroom, or one-on-one training
• Advanced written and oral communication skills, including strong knowledge of PowerPoint and any learning tool platforms needed

Responsibilities

• Conduct training needs assessments and gather requirements from internal teams
• Develop learning objectives that describe desired training objectives
• Design training curriculum and learning plans to ensure performance objectives are met
• Develop training materials including use of digital/web-based platforms, presentations, hand-outs, scenarios, exercises, and other documents
• Develop instructor guide for Facilitator
• Deliver training according to designed curriculum
• Build materials from scratch and/or utilize vendor content as applicable
• Travel to client organization sites to assess training needs and deliver training
• Develop and implement training assessments to ensure knowledge and skill retention, user experience, engagement and adoption
• Provide post-training feedback and coaching as necessary
• Communicate trainee performance to managers
• Assist in developing any reference materials, KPIs, dashboards and reporting

Benefits

• Remote work
• Flexible hours