Instructional Design Specialist

Woodgrain; Cebu City; On-site; PHP 614,000 - 837,000; Full time

Job summary

Woodgrain is seeking an Instructional Design Specialist in Cebu City, Philippines. This office-based role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality learning solutions to support Woodgrain’s IT systems and business processes.

You will translate complex technical information into engaging training experiences that enable effective adoption of technology solutions. The position reports to the Organizational Change Management Manager and has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in instructional design, eLearning development, or related field.
• Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear learning content.
• Experience creating scalable, accessible, measurable learning experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain eLearning courses, simulations, assessments, and job aids.
• Develop learning content and assessments within the LMS.
• Apply instructional design principles and learning science to create effective experiences.
• Collaborate with IT SMEs to translate technical information into learner-friendly content.

Skills

Instructional design

Technical writing

Information design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Education, Learning Technologies, Organizational Development, or related field

Tools

Adobe Captivate

Job description

Job Title: Instructional Design Specialist

Location: FLB Corporate Center - Archbishop Reyes Ave, Cebu Business Park, Cebu City, Cebu 6000

Work Arrangement: Office Based

Gross Monthly Salary: PHP 55,000 – PHP 75,000

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 10:00pm to 7:00am (Philippine Time)

(Relocation Assistance will be offered to those outside Cebu)

About Woodgrain:

Woodgrain is one of the top millwork operations in the world, with locations throughout the United States and Chile. With 70 years of quality manufacturing craftsmanship and service, Woodgrain is a top producer of mouldings, doors, and windows, as well as a premier distributor of specialty building products. Woodgrain Inc. is headquartered in Fruitland, Idaho with six divisions and over 45 manufacturing and warehouse facilities in the United States and South America. Since 1954, Woodgrain is proud to be family owned and operated.

Job Summary:

The Instructional Design Specialist is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality learning solutions that support Woodgrain’s IT systems, applications, and business processes. This role translates complex technical information into clear, engaging, and learner-focused training experiences that enable employees and business partners to effectively adopt and use technology solutions. The role applies instructional design principles and learning technologies to create scalable, accessible, and measurable learning experiences.

This position reports to the Organizational Change Management Manager. This position has no supervisory responsibilities

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain engaging learning solutions, including eLearning courses, simulations, assessments, microlearning, job aids, and instructor-led training materials.
• Develop and maintain learning content, curricula, learning paths, and assessments within the Learning Management System (LMS).
• Apply instructional design methodologies, adult learning principles, and learning science to create effective and measurable learning experiences.
• Create interactive digital learning experiences using Adobe Captivate and other rapid authoring and multimedia development tools.
• Partner with IT subject matter experts to analyze learning needs and transform complex technical and business process information into clear, structured, learner-friendly content.
• Develop and maintain storyboards, scripts, learning objectives, assessments, facilitator materials, and evaluation measures.
• Ensure training materials are accurate, consistent, accessible, user-friendly, and aligned with Woodgrain’s standards and business needs.
• Collaborate with the IT Training Program Administrator to align learning content with training delivery strategies, schedules, system implementations, and program priorities.
• Maintain and organize training assets, user guides, job aids, technical documentation, and other learning resources.
• Evaluate learning effectiveness using learner feedback, performance data, adoption metrics, and other relevant measures; recommend improvements based on findings.
• Support the development and sustainment of training content for enterprise systems, IT applications, system upgrades, and new technology implementations.
• Stay current with instructional design methodologies, learning technologies, accessibility standards, and digital learning trends.
• Promote consistent instructional design practices and a high-quality learner experience across IT training programs.
• Support Woodgrain’s mission, vision, and values through collaboration, innovation, and accountability.

Additional duties that are needed to help drive the Woodgrain mission, vision, and values may be assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Education, Learning Technologies, Organizational Development, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
• At least 2 years of experience in instructional design, eLearning development, learning and development, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience developing digital learning content using Adobe Captivate or comparable rapid authoring tools
• Experience translating complex technical, system, or business process information into clear and engaging learning content

Additional Skills:

• Strong instructional design, technical writing, and information design skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with subject matter experts, technical teams, business stakeholders, and other learning professionals.
• Ability to effectively communicate in English, both verbally and in writing. Additional languages preferred.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment for this role align with those of a standard office setting. While performing job duties, the employee may occasionally need to stand, walk, sit, use hands for handling objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, as well as talk and hear. This role may occasionally require lifting or moving up to 25 pounds.

This position follows a Monday through Friday schedule, excluding company holidays, with working hours that may vary based on departmental needs.

Travel:

This position does not require travel to other Woodgrain locations.