Instructional Designer — eLearning and Course Development for NATO with security clearance

WLG; Eigenbrakel; On-site; EUR 62,000 - 97,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NATO-5 visa

Job summary

Unknown is seeking an instructional designer to design courses end to end with subject matter experts across nations and partner organisations. You will define objectives, structure, and assessments to ensure content flows and meets learning goals.

You will work on instructional content with storyboard-based design, select strategies for diverse learners, and evaluate impact while providing QA and facilitation for a range of instructor-led and online formats. Fluent English required.

Qualifications

• Degree in education and training development or related programme.
• At least three years within the last five in eLearning development.
• Experience communicating with clients and subject matter experts.
• Hands-on use of authoring tools to build standards-compliant content.
• Experience developing content inside Moodle LMS.
• Portfolio covering at least three eLearning projects with storyboards.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Analyse learning needs with subject matter experts across nations.
• Define clear, measurable learning objectives aligned with courses.
• Design course structure: modules, lessons, assessments for flow.
• Develop instructional content from source material using storyboard design.
• Choose instructional strategies for different learning styles.
• Design pre-, formative and summative assessments to gauge progress.
• Run evaluations to measure course impact and feed revisions.
• Provide instructional design assistance and QA to other providers.
• Prepare, facilitate and evaluate instructor-led, virtual and in-person activities.
• Research emerging learning technologies and recommend adoption.

Skills

Educational design

eLearning development

Storyboarding

Instructional design

Client communication

Portfolio demonstration

Education

Degree in education and training development

Tools

Moodle

Job description

Relocation to the United States - Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa for you and your family.This post is a full employment contract with our delivery partner, with the benefits that go with it - not a contractor or B2B arrangement. Agreeing to be employed is the first condition of the role.A multinational defence organisation runs a large education and training catalogue and builds much of it as eLearning. This role designs those courses end to end, working with the subject matter experts who hold the content.

What You Would Be Doing

• Working with subject matter experts across nations and partner organisations to analyse the learning need.
• Defining clear, measurable learning objectives aligned with the course as a whole.
• Designing the course structure - modules, lessons, assessments - so the content flows.
• Developing the instructional content from source material, using storyboard-based design.
• Choosing instructional strategies that work for different learning styles.
• Designing pre-, formative and summative assessments that actually gauge progress.
• Running the evaluation that measures the course impact, and a feedback mechanism that feeds the next revision.
• Providing instructional design assistance and quality assurance to other course providers.
• Preparing, facilitating and evaluating instructor-led activities, virtual and residential.
• Researching emerging learning technologies and recommending what is worth adopting.

What you would bring

• A degree in education and training development or a related programme - learning theory, educational psychology, instructional design.
• At least three years inside the last five in eLearning development.
• Experience communicating with clients and subject matter experts through the whole design process.
• Hands-on use of current authoring tools to build standards-compliant learning content.
• Experience developing content inside a learning management system such as Moodle.
• A portfolio covering at least three eLearning projects, with representative storyboards.
• Fluent professional English.

This is a long engagement that renews year on year, not a short project.