Design & Assessment Specialist

Hackajob Ltd; Fareham; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Holiday entitlement

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Hackajob Ltd. seeks a Design & Assessment Specialist to lead the transformation of training materials for Royal Navy programmes.

You will work across instructional design and learning systems, coaching teams to deliver high-quality courseware and assessments. The role involves developing innovative learning solutions, supporting accreditation, and driving continuous improvement while accommodating remote, hybrid or site-based arrangements as the project requires.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Experience in designing and developing training materials
• Knowledge of learning platforms and media development
• Ability to mentor and coach instructional design teams
• Experience in applying learning design principles and assessment methodologies

Responsibilities

• Design and assess training programs for Royal Navy learning platforms
• Develop and adapt training materials using active-learning approaches
• Advise on courseware development and media development to meet client needs
• Coach Training Designers, Courseware Developers and Media Developers
• Support accreditation activities and continuous improvement of training content

Skills

Communication

Training design

Courseware development

Learning systems

Mentoring

Job description

Contract Type

Permanent

Position Role Type

Onsite

Job Title

Design & Assessment Specialist

Primary Location

Fareham, Hampshire

Deployment Location

HMS Collingwood

Travel

Potential travel

Benefits

• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance' with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.

Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!

Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.

Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About us

We take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, our client helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Through advanced technology and our people's expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what's possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.

Role & Responsibilities

Our client are about to undertake a transformational learning programme for the Royal Navy, our Design & Assessment Specialists are integral to the learner experience. They play key roles in ensuring that our customers and learners receive the highest quality training. These experts have extensive knowledge in both instructional design and learning systems, allowing them to provide advice and coaching on effective programs tailored to the needs of the Royal Navy

Responsibilities

• Possess demonstrable knowledge of adapting training materials to reflect active learning approaches and utilising trending technologies to exploit these approaches.
• Support the development of training programmes across a range of technical specialisms, using a variety of approaches that differ from conventional training methods to engage learners and demonstrably improve and assess learner cognition.
• Be expert in various learning platforms and learning technologies, able to advise Training Design, Courseware Development and Media Development teams on the best way to utilise and customise training solutions to meet customer needs.
• Provide instruction to Training Designers, Courseware Developers and Media Developers, supporting course and assessment design to meet client objectives. These assessments are often used to measure progress, evaluate results and identify areas for improvement.
• Support the accreditation process, ensuring all requirements are met. This can include designing training materials, developing summative and formative assessments, or providing guidance on other accreditation-related activities.
• Coach and mentor Training Designers, Courseware Developers and Media Developers in learning design best practice, assessment design, innovative instructional strategies and learning technologies.
• Promote innovative learning approaches, including gamification, virtual reality, simulation, adaptive learning technologies and other contemporary learning methods, to enhance learner engagement and performance.
• Continually assess the impact of training content and implement continuous improvement based on data-driven outcomes.
• Responsible for the continuous professional development of yourself. Employees are responsible for their own Health and Safety and that of work colleagues and customers.
• Follow security standards and system requirements to protect data and ensure smooth operations.
• Any other duties required to support the Integrated Training Design Service.

Required experience

• Excellent communication skills at all levels both internally and within the customer organisation.
• Development and delivery environments and have contributed to the design of significant training courses.
• The training design and development processes for training media.
• Applying learning design principles and assessment methodologies within training design, courseware development and media development environments.
• Experienced and capable of working within a team.

Desirable experience

• AGILE methodology and working practice.
• Using programme management tools and applications.
• Training and/or Instructional Design Detailed knowledge and practical experience of: UK Ministry of Defence procedures and policies Defence Systems Approach to Training

Equal employment

Its parent company adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Its parent company adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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