Instructional Systems Designer

Description

ProSource360 Consulting Services, Inc. is seeking an Instructional Systems Designer at the 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW), headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. 711 HPW is the first human-centric warfare wing to consolidate human performance research, education, and consultation under a single organization. 

Responsibilities

The Instructional System Designer will assist the Academic Development Branch (EDED) to support the graphics, media, and video production for the courses and programs within the organization. He/She/They will provide educational expertise in the creation of multimedia, graphics, or media projects in collaboration with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Project/production Manager, and Production Team. The ISD will recommend instructional platforms, instructional media, development tools, and delivery methods to satisfy training requirements for any programs or classes assigned. In addition, he/she/they will add, manage, and perform testing of online courseware and complete a comprehensive report on the data gathered and offer recommendations for training improvements.  

• Create training plans and conduct or provide guidance in conducting the validation phase of the ISD process to ensure effectiveness in meeting course objectives and required proficiency levels for newly implemented courses.
• perform required administrative activities include correcting grammar, spelling, syntax, and formatting to accurately prepare, review, and edit written curriculum and the maintenance and updating of files and records.
• Participate in and support educationally related activities as required. Projects may include office continuity design, aiding the departments with online/e-learning tasks (if the project is for a course must be a collaborative effort between Department Instructional System Specialist, production manager, Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Course Director) and USAFSAM specific curriculum guidance creation.
• Apply all components of the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) Instructional System Design model.
• Design all training materials, including, but not limited to: effective copy, instructional text, audio scripts, and video scripts.
• Analyze student feedback from end-of-course evaluations and field surveys to assess the effectiveness of technical inserts. The contractor shall provide written recommendations to the EDED Branch Chief and/or applicable USAFSAM Branch Chief and customer for improving the courseware using ISD principles.

Requirements

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Educational Design or five (5) years applied experience in Instructional Systems Design (ISD) techniques and related discipline that includes demonstrated experience in two of the four:   
• Learning theory, psychology of learning, educational psychology: Study of learning theories as they relate to the systematic design, creation and validation of instructional material
• Instructional design practices: Study of the principles and techniques used in designing training programs, building design strategy and models, and applying design methods to the improvement of instructional effectiveness
• Educational assessment: Study of the techniques for rating the effectiveness of instructional/educational programs, including creating written and performance tests and survey instruments, and determining reliability and validity of designed instruments
• Instructional product creation: Study of the techniques appropriate for creating training materials, including identifying learner characteristics, specifying objectives, applying training strategy, validating training materials, and assessing training
• Proficient in current technologies that are used to develop cutting edge educational materials. Their expertise should include (but not limited to) technologies such as Adobe Captivate, packaging and delivering Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) packages, gaming, 3D modeling, virtual reality and simulation
• Extensive experience in organizational skills and the ability to work independently and have strong interpersonal skill
• Must have outstanding filing, organizational, communication, and typing skills as well as extensive experience with the use of Microsoft Office to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Adobe Acrobat programs
• US Citizenship required

Preferred

• Master’s Degree in Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Educational Design, or related discipline
• Previous experience working in a military research environment.

ProSource360 Consulting Services, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.