Instructional System Designer – ISD

Jobtailor; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Maryland seeks an experienced Instructional Designer to design and develop online, instructor-led, and instructor-facilitated courses. You will conduct needs analyses to identify learning objectives and map courseware to ensure objectives are met.

You will design assessments aligned to content, measure effectiveness, and lead instructional design projects, applying learning theories for federal education programs.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Bachelor’s with significant IDS experience.
• Experience designing online instructor-led or instructor-facilitated courses.
• Experience leading instructional design projects.
• Experience implementing and producing virtual synchronous/asynchronous courses.
• Experience mapping objectives to assessments and curricula.
• Experience supporting federal agencies in security-related training.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop synchronous and asynchronous online courses.
• Conduct needs analyses to identify learning objectives.
• Map courseware to objectives and design assessments to measure effectiveness.

Skills

Leadership in instructional design

Instructional design principles

Assessment & evaluation methods

Virtual course delivery

Federal training programs

Education

Master’s degree in Instructional Systems Design or Adult Education

Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of IDS experience

Tools

Moodle

Blackboard

Cornerstone OnDemand

Adobe Connect

Job description

Responsibilities

• Using a systematic approach to design and develop synchronous and asynchronous online, instructor‑led, or instructor‑facilitated courses
• Conducting thorough needs analyses to identify learning objectives
• Mapping courseware to ensure instructional materials align with objectives, skillset, organizational goals and designing assessments aligned to objectives/course content to measure the effectiveness of instructional materials and programs

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Instructional Systems Design or Adult Education from an accredited university and at least five (5) years of experience applied in Instructional Systems Design OR; Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and at least eight (8) years of applied experience applied in Instructional Systems Design.
• Experience developing and updating online instructor‑led (both in person and synchronous/asynchronous virtual courses), or instructor‑facilitated distance‑delivered courses in a collaborative learning environment and learning management systems such as Moodle, Blackboard, Cornerstone OnDemand, Adobe Connect, etc.
• Experience leading instructional design and development projects.
• Experience implementing and producing virtual synchronous and asynchronous courses and learning events.
• Experience applying instructional design principles, methodologies, and learning theories to create engaging and effective learning experiences that are aligned and mapped to skillsets, learning objectives, and assessments.
• Experience using assessment and evaluation methods to measure the effectiveness of instructional materials and courses that are aligned and mapped to skillsets, learning objectives.
• Experience supporting federal agencies in the execution of security‑related training, education, or certification programs.
• In addition to the above, for CDSE’s Education Division, instructional design experience supporting higher education, undergraduate‑ or graduate‑level programs.