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

WLG; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NATO-5 visa support

Relocation assistance to the United St

Job summary

WLG in Norfolk, VA is seeking an experienced Instructional Designer to design end-to-end eLearning courses with SMEs across regions. The role focuses on storyboard-based content and course structure, ensuring alignment with learning objectives.

Responsibilities include developing content in Moodle, designing various assessments, and evaluating course impact. Collaboration with clients and SMEs is essential, along with QA and ongoing improvement.

Qualifications

• Degree in education/training development or related field.
• Three years within last five in eLearning development.
• Experience communicating with clients and SMEs through the design process.
• Hands-on use of current authoring tools to build content.
• Experience developing content inside an LMS.
• Portfolio covering at least three eLearning projects.
• Fluent professional English.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with SMEs across nations to analyse learning needs.
• Define clear, measurable learning objectives for the course.
• Design course structure: modules, lessons, assessments.
• 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 impact and feedback for revisions.
• Provide instructional design assistance and QA to other providers.
• Prepare, facilitate and evaluate instructor-led, virtual and residential sessions.
• Research emerging learning technologies and recommend adoption.

Skills

Education degree

eLearning development (3+ years)

Client/SME communication

Authoring tools

Moodle

Portfolio of projects

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education / Instructional Design

Tools

Moodle

Job description

Relocation to the United States — Norfolk, Virginia. We provide the NATO-5 visa.

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.