Lead Instructional Designer

Educology Solutions; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WSSC Water seeks a Lead Instructional Designer to design, adapt, and maintain a cohesive, learner-centered curriculum portfolio supporting professional development, leadership, and digital-skills training for classroom and virtual environments.

You will lead the design lifecycle, develop multi-tier learning paths, update guides and materials, and collaborate with stakeholders to tailor content to agency needs, applying adult-learning principles and ensuring scalable training assets.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years designing adult-learning curriculum paths.
• Degree in Instructional Design, Adult Education, or CPTD credential.
• Experience developing sequential, progressive learning paths including multi-month leadership-development models.
• Ability to create training assets for both physical classrooms and interactive virtual environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the instructional design lifecycle from needs analysis to evaluation.
• Develop multi-tier, sequential learning paths for progression.
• Create and update guides, workbooks, presentations, exercises, and assessments.
• Ensure assets work in classroom and virtual ILT environments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to tailor content to agency needs and learner levels.
• Map content to professional-development, leadership-development, and digital-technology topics.
• Incorporate adult-learning principles and performance measures into designs.
• Support instructors with facilitator guides and updates based on feedback.
• Maintain version control and quality assurance for all materials.

Skills

Curriculum design

Adult learning

Learning paths

Stakeholder collaboration

Training evaluation

Education

Instructional Design degree

Adult Education degree

CPTD credential

Job description

Role Purpose

The Lead Instructional Designer is responsible for designing, adapting, and maintaining a cohesive, learner-centered curriculum portfolio that supports WSSC Water's professional development, leadership development, emerging leadership, technical, and digital-skills training needs. This individual ensures all learning solutions are progressive, practical, accessible, and effective across classroom and virtual learning environments.

The Lead Instructional Designer is responsible for designing, adapting, and maintaining a cohesive, learner-centered curriculum portfolio that supports WSSC Water's professional development, leadership development, emerging leadership, technical, and digital-skills training needs. This individual ensures all learning solutions are progressive, practical, accessible, and effective across classroom and virtual learning environments.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the instructional design lifecycle: needs analysis, learning-objective development, curriculum architecture, content development, pilot support, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Develop multi-tier, sequential learning paths that support learner progression from foundational concepts to advanced workplace application.
• Design and update instructor guides, participant workbooks, presentations, exercises, case studies, assessments, virtual-learning assets, job aids, and post-training resources.
• Ensure training assets function effectively in both physical classroom settings and interactive virtual instructor-led environments.
• Collaborate with the PM, WSSC Water stakeholders, and Core Instructional Faculty to tailor course content to agency needs, organizational priorities, departmental realities, and varying learner skill levels.
• Map learning content to the required catalog of professional-development, leadership-development, emerging-leader, project-management, software, and digital-technology topics.
• Incorporate adult-learning principles, experiential learning, scenario-based exercises, knowledge checks, participant feedback, and performance measures into all course designs.
• Support instructors through facilitation guides, delivery standards, train-the-trainer support, and content updates based on feedback and evaluation outcomes.
• Maintain version control and quality assurance for all curriculum and training materials.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least five years of experience designing adult-learning curriculum paths.
• A degree in Instructional Design, Adult Education, or an active Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) credential.
• Demonstrated success developing sequential, progressive learning paths, including multi-month leadership-development models.
• Demonstrated capability to create training assets that can be used interchangeably in physical classrooms and interactive virtual learning environments.