Senior Instructional Design Lead / Curriculum Modernization Consultant — Remote

Axyde Analytics, LLC; Midlothian (VA); Remote; USD 551,000 - 964,000; Part time

Job summary

Axyde Analytics, LLC seeks an experienced instructional-design consultant to support a focused curriculum modernization effort for the USPTO Patent Examiner Training Program modernization RFI. This is a consulting engagement; it is not a government appointment or guaranteed full-time work.

The initial assignment prioritizes reviewing and revising a 125-course curriculum, recommending a practical inventory and QA process, and outlining SME coordination and assessment planning for potential future

Qualifications

• Documented experience in revising a curriculum containing more than 40 courses.
• Experience coordinating with subject-matter experts (SMEs).
• Ability to design assessments and an implementation plan for curriculum modernization.

Responsibilities

• Review current curriculum approach and inventory (125 courses).
• Recommend a practical process for learning objectives, SME review, and quality assurance.
• Provide a concise accountable summary of relevant experience and discuss delivery roles.

Skills

Instructional design

Adult learning

Curriculum mapping

Job description

SHORT CONSULTING ENGAGEMENT — CURRICULUM MODERNIZATION

Axyde Analytics, LLC seeks an experienced instructional-design consultant for a focused initial assignment supporting our response to the USPTO Patent Examiner Training Program modernization RFI (ACQ-26-9999). This is an Axyde consulting opportunity, not a Government appointment or an awarded delivery position.

INITIAL ASSIGNMENT

• Review our approach to assessing and revising a 125-course technical/legal training curriculum.
• Recommend a practical course-inventory, learning-objective, SME-review and quality-assurance process.
• Provide a concise, accurately attributed account of your relevant curriculum-modernization experience and discuss a potential delivery role.
• Initial planning estimate: approximately 4–8 hours, with scope and fee agreed in writing before work. Additional work is separately agreed.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Documented personal responsibility for revising one curriculum containing MORE THAN 40 COURSES. Experience across many unrelated small projects does not by itself meet this requirement. Technical, legal, regulatory or intellectual-property audiences are preferred.

Experience should demonstrate instructional design, adult learning, coordination with subject-matter experts, curriculum mapping, assessment design and implementation planning. Independent consultants and specialists working through a firm are welcome.

ENGAGEMENT AND TIMING

The initial review can be performed remotely; Midlothian, Virginia is Axydes administrative base. Prompt applications are encouraged because the RFI response is due September 30, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern. This is an estimated short consulting assignment, not full-time employment or guaranteed hours. Any selected consulting work is paid under mutually agreed written terms. Potential follow-on work depends on procurement, award, funding, scope and mutual agreement; travel or onsite work would be agreed separately.

An application does not authorize use of your name, rsum, client references or employers project history in a Government response. Axyde will obtain specific permission and accurately identify the organization and role responsible for any cited experience.