[Remote] Instructional Designer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robert Half is a staffing firm seeking an Instructional Designer for an 8-month contract. The role involves developing training strategies, conducting needs analyses, creating curriculum content, and managing training logistics to support organizational change.
Responsibilities
- Develops the training strategy aligned to the overall OCM strategy
- Partners with IT Business Sponsors and IT Training Project Manager to Identify the audiences, skills, and behaviors needed for adoption
- Partners with the OCM lead to ensure training is part of the overall change plan
- Defines the scope of training including what requires formal training vs. job aids vs. quick reference guides
- Identifies what people need to learn to adopt the change
- Analyzes:
- Roles and personas
- New processes being adopted
- Required knowledge, skills, or system competencies
- Determines the training method: instructor-led, eLearning, workshops, simulations, etc
- Partners with SMEs and system teams to build:
- Training decks
- System simulations
- ELearning modules
- Job aids, quick reference guides, playbooks
- Ensures materials are accurate, consistent, and aligned with process documentation and reviewed with IT Business Sponsors and IT Training Project Manager
- Coordinates training, schedules sessions, locations, and virtual setups
- Ensures trainers are prepared with:
- Facilitator guides
- Exercises or lab environments
- Manages enrollment tracking and completion
- Works with OCM leads to understand:
- Who is impacted
- How deeply they're impacted
- Aligns training to role-based impacts
- Communicates training expectations clearly to leaders and participants
- Reinforces the why behind the change during training sessions
- Helps ensure training supports behavior change-not just technical skills
- Creates knowledge checks, quizzes, or tests
- Measures training effectiveness through:
- Pre/post assessments
- Feedback surveys
- Participant confidence indicators
- Uses results to address gaps before go-live
- Helps design hyper-care training for post go-live support
- Coordinates floor support, office hours, or guided practice sessions
- Provides refresher training for teams needing extra support
- Ensures training materials are handed off for long-term use
- Helps create ongoing onboarding materials for new hires
- Ensures updates are incorporated as processes evolve
Skills
- Planview Portfolio
- Experience delivering training for enterprise applications, portfolio management tools, project management platforms, or technology transformation programs
- Strong instructional design facilitation and communication skills
- Ability to translate technical concepts into accessible role-appropriate learning materials
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including PMOs, IT, and operational leadership
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced evolving program environments
- Change Agility Mindset Adaptability
- Helps learners embrace new processes
- Analytical Thinking
- Uses assessments and data to improve training
- Problem Solving
- Quickly addresses confusion, environment issues, or content gaps
- Bachelor's degree or higher and a minimum of 3 years instructional design, web design experience, or responsibilities that involve performance improvement initiatives
- A minimum of 6 years instructional design, web design experience, or responsibilities that involve performance improvement initiatives
- AI-Clip Champ Experience
Benefits
- Benefits available to contract/temporary professionals, include medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance.
- Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan.
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