Senior Instructional Analyst/ ISD III Lead

OESC (Oneida ESC Group); Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 Days Paid Time Off

11 Paid Holidays

401(k) with Company Match

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness Program

Job summary

Oneida ESC Group seeks a Senior Instructional Analyst/ISD III Lead in Orlando, FL. Flexible contractor-site or telework options are available, subject to task orders.

Responsibilities include leading analyses, developing methodologies, and coordinating with SMEs to deliver actionable recommendations aligned with training requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in instructional systems or related field.
• 8+ years in instructional-systems design, training analysis, or related work.
• 3+ years leading instructional analysts or complex projects.
• Experience writing and defending technical analyses.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for training analysis tasks across orders.
• Develop methodologies, data strategies, and execution plans.
• Lead analyses on learning objectives, media, fidelity, cost, and effectiveness.
• Review docu­mentation and ensure alignment with requirements and standards.
• Facilitate interviews, workshops, and data collection with SMEs and operators.
• Assign work to ISD III/II staff and provide technical direction.
• Ensure findings are evidence-based and linked to requirements.
• Coordinate with SMEs to validate information and ensure accuracy.
• Present findings during Government reviews and stakeholder briefings.
• Support labor-hour estimates and staffing plans for new tasks.

Skills

Leadership

Instructional design

Analytical thinking

Facilitation

Technical writing

Project management

Interviewing techniques

Team mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in IS/ED/psychology

OPM 1750/0180 equivalent

Job description

Description

Oneida Professional Services (OPS) is seeking for a motivated Senior Instructional Analyst/ ISD III Lead in Orlando, FL.

Employment Status: Contingent upon contract award

Location: Flexible contractor-site or authorized telework location, subject to individual task-order requirements

Primary Customer Location: PM TRASYS, Orlando, Florida

Travel: Periodic CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for assigned training analysis and evaluation task orders.
• Develop the technical methodology, analytical framework, data-collection strategy, staffing approach, and execution plan for each assigned effort.
• Lead cognitive, needs, alternatives, gap, training-situation, job-task, training-system-requirements, learning-objective, media, fidelity, functionality, cost/trade-off, START, and training-effectiveness analyses and evaluations.
• Review system documentation, operational requirements, training materials, technical publications, doctrine, policies, and source data.
• Facilitate interviews, focus groups, working groups, workshops, observations, and data-collection sessions with operators, instructors, maintainers, engineers, program personnel, and other subject-matter experts.
• Assign work to ISD III and ISD II personnel and provide technical direction throughout the analysis lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain analytical standards, templates, style guides, traceability methods, and product-development procedures.
• Ensure that findings, conclusions, and recommendations are supported by collected evidence and linked to operational or training requirements.
• Analyze performance requirements, knowledge and skill gaps, job tasks, learning objectives, training conditions, media options, system fidelity, and training effectiveness.
• Coordinate with equipment and technical SMEs to validate operational, maintenance, safety, system, and procedural information.
• Integrate instructional, technical, human-performance, and operational information into clear findings and actionable recommendations.
• Review draft products for analytical sufficiency, consistency, instructional integrity, and compliance with the approved methodology.
• Resolve Government and stakeholder comments and document the disposition of review comments.
• Present technical findings, methodologies, risks, and recommendations during Government reviews and stakeholder briefings.
• Support the Program/Project Manager in developing labor-hour estimates, staffing plans, schedules, assumptions, and technical approaches for new task orders.
• Coordinate with the Quality Control Specialist to ensure deliverables comply with the PWS, task order, style guide, applicable standards, and delivery requirements.

Representative Deliverables

• Analysis and evaluation plans
• Data-collection plans and instruments
• Interview and workshop materials
• Job-task and performance analyses
• Training-requirements analyses
• Learning-objective analyses
• Training-system and fidelity evaluations
• Training-effectiveness evaluation plans and reports
• Analysis findings and recommendation reports
• Requirements-traceability matrices
• Technical briefings and decision-support packages
• Comment-adjudication matrices
• ISD standards, templates, and style guides

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional systems, instructional design, education, curriculum development, psychology, human performance, training development, or a related discipline.
• Education and experience consistent with the work performed by the OPM Instructional Systems Series 1750 or Psychology Series 0180.
• At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in instructional-systems design, training analysis, curriculum development, human-performance analysis, or training evaluation.
• At least three years of experience leading instructional analysts, technical teams, or complex analysis projects.
• Demonstrated experience performing job-task, needs, gap, learning-objective, training-requirements, media, fidelity, or training-effectiveness analysis.
• Knowledge of ADDIE, adult-learning principles, systematic instructional design, performance-based training, and evaluation methodologies.
• Experience facilitating data-collection activities with technical SMEs, operators, instructors, maintainers, and Government stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to write, review, and defend complex technical-analysis findings and recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, analytical, technical-writing, briefing, and team-leadership skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any suitability determination, installation access, or security clearance required by an individual task order.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ten or more years of instructional-systems design or training-analysis experience.
• Experience supporting Marine Corps or Department of Defense training programs, acquisition organizations, or training-system development.
• Familiarity with Marine Corps training-development processes, OPNAV Instruction 1500.76, NAVMC guidance, systems acquisition, human-systems integration, or training-system evaluation.
• Experience evaluating simulators, training devices, courseware, embedded training, virtual training, or other technology-enabled training systems.
• Graduate degree in instructional systems, education, psychology, human factors, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams and supporting CONUS or OCONUS data-collection activities.

Work Location and Travel

Work may be performed at the contractor’s facility or an authorized telework location when permitted by the applicable task order. The position may require onsite interviews, observations, workshops, data collection, training-system assessments, technical meetings, and Government reviews.

Potential travel locations may include Orlando, Quantico, Camp Pendleton, Camp Lejeune, Twentynine Palms, Yuma, Hawaii, Okinawa, Iwakuni, Camp Fuji, and other locations identified in individual task orders.

Benefits (FEDERAL)

• 15 Days of Paid Time Off
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Medical, Dental, and Eye Insurance
• Employee Referral Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Wellness Program
• Multiple Voluntary Medical Benefits

About Us

The Oneida ESC Group is a family of companies owned by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin that delivers customer-focused engineering, science, and construction services worldwide.

Our Family Of Companies Includes

• Oneida ESC Group (OESC)
• Oneida Professional Services (OPS)
• Oneida Total Integrated Enterprises (OTIE)
• Mission Support Services (MS2)
• Sustainment & Restoration Services (SRS)
• Oneida Engineering Solutions (OES)
• General Mechanical Corporation (GMC)
• LG2 Environmental Solutions (LG2)
• Oneida Environmental (OE)

Equal Employment Opportunity

Oneida ESC Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusion and diversity in the workplace. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic