Instructional Designer

LeverageTek Staffing Solutions; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 41,000 - 69,000; Part time

Job summary

LeverageTek Staffing Solutions is seeking an experienced Instructional Designer for a 6-month contract in Ottawa. This fully remote role supports education design, development, and delivery across English and French materials.

You will transform learning needs into engaging eLearning assets and collaborate with subject matter experts, education leads, and partners to ensure accessibility and quality. Strong independent work and bilingual content creation are essential.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in instructional design and eLearning development across multiple formats (courses, workshops, job aids, multimedia).
• Proficiency in producing bilingual (English and French) education deliverables.
• Strong knowledge of adult learning principles and user-centred, iterative design approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide embedded instructional design and development support under the direction of the Team Lead, Education Design.
• Transform learning needs into engaging education solutions based on adult learning principles.
• Support all phases of education product development including discovery, consultation with SMEs and learners, design, development, review, testing, revision and finalization.
• Design, develop, update and maintain education courses, workshops, web conferences, self-studies, job aids, multimedia and eLearning assets.
• Produce English and French deliverables from approved storyboards or source materials.
• Work as primary instructional designer or design partner, review another designer's work for alignment with objectives, accessibility and quality.
• Coordinate assigned project activities, timelines, documentation and review cycles with SMEs and education leads.
• Draft promotional email copy, LinkedIn posts and internal promotional content for review and approval.
• Apply and contribute to instructional design processes, tools, methods, standards and best practices.

Skills

Instructional design

Bilingual deliverables

Adult learning principles

Job description

LeverageTek is actively seeking an Instructional Designer for a 6 month contract engagement with its Ottawa-based customer.

Work Location

• Remote

Key Tasks

• Provide embedded instructional design and development support under the direction of the Team Lead, Education Design, in accordance with the education development processes, standards and priorities
• Transform identified learning or performance needs into feasible and engaging education solutions based on adult learning principles and a user-centred, iterative design approach
• Support all phases of education product development including discovery, consultation with subject matter experts and learners, design, development, review, testing, revision and finalization
• Design, develop, update and maintain education courses, workshops, web conferences, self-studies, job aids, multimedia and eLearning assets
• Produce English and French deliverables developed from approved storyboards or source materials
• Work as primary instructional designer or assigned design partner, including reviewing another designer's work for alignment with learning objectives, organization standards, accessibility requirements and quality expectations
• Coordinate assigned project activities, timelines, documentation and review cycles, and collaborate with subject matter experts, education leads and other partners
• Support promotion of education products by drafting promotional email copy, LinkedIn posts and internal promotional content for review and approval
• Apply and contribute to instructional design processes, tools, methods, standards and best practices

Key Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in instructional design and eLearning development across multiple formats (courses, workshops, job aids, multimedia)
• Proficiency in producing bilingual (English and French) education deliverables
• Strong knowledge of adult learning principles and user-centred, iterative design approaches

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating project timelines, documentation and review cycles in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote setting with minimal supervision
• Experience collaborating with subject matter experts to develop education content
• Familiarity with accessibility standards as applied to education and eLearning content
• Experience drafting promotional content including email copy, LinkedIn posts and internal communications

Compensation

Hourly Rate Negotiable

• This is an existing position vacancy.

About LeverageTek Staffing Solutions Founded in 2003, LeverageTek provides end-to-end, cross-functional staffing solutions throughout North America. We are a trusted partner to leading private and public sector organizations and experts in talent solutions that create optimal business outcomes.

• Don't let our name fool you. Our roots are in technology, but we are also a proven leader in accounting and finance, sales and marketing, human resources, supply chain, and legal talent acquisition. We offer contract and permanent staffing, executive search, talent mapping, management consultancy, and contractor payroll management.

LeverageTek is an equal opportunity employer. We offer a welcoming and inclusive environment in service to one another, our customers, the candidates we represent, and the diverse communities we call home. We do all of this with kindness, empathy, and respect for each other. LeverageTek is committed to employment equity and creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, and marital status.

• Accessibility accommodations are available upon request.
• LeverageTek's specialized recruiting professionals use their expertise and our proprietary AI to accelerate connections between top talent and leading companies, while ensuring all screening and hiring decisions remain with our expert human team.