Senior Educational Specialist - Facilities Management

MD Anderson Cancer Center; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 68,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Sr. Educational Specialist to design and deliver innovative training solutions for employees. This role involves developing curriculum and eLearning content, managing projects, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in instructional design and project management, with a passion for enhancing educational experiences. Join a dynamic team committed to excellence in training and development, where your contributions will directly impact employee performance and organizational success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of curriculum development or project management experience.
• Experience in technology, business, or healthcare fields.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver training programs for FM employees.
• Manage training development projects to ensure timely completion.
• Act as a technical liaison for online training deliverables.

Skills

Curriculum Development

Project Management

eLearning Development

Instructional Design

Technical Expertise

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Education or Behavioral Science

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's Degree in Business

Tools

Learning Management System (LMS)

Web-based Online Course Delivery Models

Job description

Ideal candidate will have Instructional design or course design educational technology experience.

SUMMARY

The primary purpose of the Sr. Educational Specialist position is to provide highly technical solutions to complex institutional training needs, including database maintenance and developing seamless integration of training content within the enterprise Learning Management System. Design and deliver curriculum and educational material in traditional classroom settings as well as eLearning, and other formats. Develops and performs complex theory-based needs assessments for educational interventions and course development for the FM division. Determine student achievement at a variety of assessment levels. Maintain appropriate documentation of student performance in educational programs. Act as an educational consultant for the FM division. Develop and maintain budgets and timelines for educational training projects.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

Training Design and Development: Develop training programs and curriculum for FM employees for onboarding and on the job training. Collaborate with the division leaders/contacts to identify training needs. Develop, schedule, and lead appropriate training sessions for FM employees. Determine training programs and tools to support performance development (utilizing class surveys, focus groups, etc.). Supports the unique needs of divisional training programs, including classroom training (in person and virtual), eLearning, job aids, videos, etc. Obtain Customer and Employee feedback for divisional products and services.

eLearning Development: Use instructional design methodologies to develop eLearning content, programs, and curriculum for FM employees for onboarding and on the job training. Develops and maintains online courses and manages processes for internal and external clients to implement courses in learning management system (LMS). Works directly with clients to ensure courses designed, created, and tested to meet quality assurance specifications prior to being published in enterprise LMS Production environment.

Technical Expertise: Develop and implements cost-effective and innovative solutions for divisional training initiatives, such as web-based online course delivery models, rapid online learning course development templates, mobile learning development and tracking, media web portals, etc.

Training Consultation and Maintenance: Serves as technical liaison with customers, peers, and third-party vendors to guarantee functional compliance of online training deliverables with the LMS, internal security policies, and institutional branding standards. Provides support to co-workers in the development, testing, and deployment of internally or externally developed online training programs.

Project Management: Employee is responsible for planning and overseeing training development projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within scope. Duties include: preparing, planning and implementation; defining scope, goals and deliverables; defining tasks and required resources, allocating any project resources; manage budget (if necessary); creating a schedule and project timelines; tracking deliverables; keeping stakeholders informed by monitoring and reporting on project process; implementing and managing change when necessary; and evaluating/testing end product for quality assurance.

Required: Bachelor's Degree Education or Behavioral Science, Computer Science, Business or related field.5 years Curriculum development or project management experience in technology, business or health care or related field.

Preferred: Instructional design or course design educational technology experience

It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. http://www.mdanderson.org/about-us/legal-and-policy/legal-statements/eeo-affirmative-action.html

Additional Information

• Requisition ID: 172968
• Employment Status: Full-Time
• Employee Status: Regular
• Work Week: Days
• Minimum Salary: US Dollar (USD) 68,500
• Midpoint Salary: US Dollar (USD) 88,500
• Maximum Salary : US Dollar (USD) 102,500
• FLSA: exempt and not eligible for overtime pay
• Fund Type: Hard
• Work Location: Remote
• Pivotal Position: No
• Referral Bonus Available?: No
• Relocation Assistance Available?: No
• Science Jobs: No