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Are you ready for a rewarding career challenge?

Unleash your potential at Leidos, where we make smart smarter by delivering innovative technical, engineering, and science solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Are you a talented, creative, detail-oriented, tech comfortable, and people-focused learning designer looking for a fresh challenge? Your search ends here! We're seeking a full-time Instructional Technologist to design, develop, deliver and evaluate specialized and technical training for our dynamic clients. From engaging classroom instruction to online learning modules to experiential activities, you'll use your expertise to advance our clients' training missions.

As a successful candidate, you'll make a difference by helping our clients build a comprehensive curriculum that expands their specialized knowledge and skills to improve their mission performance and make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient. Your communication skills and ability to help instructors and experts craft engaging learning environments and instruction that enables learners to feel present and ready for their training will increase learners’ retention which will have a major impact on their ability to apply their learning to their jobs. Your ability to analyze requirements and then create effective and enriching learning interventions across a variety of mediums, platforms, and levels will support successful outcomes for our clients’ missions. And your tech savvy will help our clients evaluate and implement the new tools and technologies that are changing our world.

If you're ready to take your skills to the next level, we want to hear from you! Apply today and take the first step towards a fulfilling and rewarding career with Leidos.

Your greatest work is ahead!

The Mission
The Leidos National Security Sector uses a wide range of capabilities in Digital Modernization, Mission Software Systems, and enabling technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support our customers’ mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team’s focus is ensuring our intelligence customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets. From scanning for illicit material at ports and borders to predicting future events and instability up to five years in advance, our products help customers make the world safer. To explore and learn more, visit us at leidos.com.

Are you ready to join a team dedicated to a mission? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your resume with us today!

Your Main Mission:

• Work as part of a team to support a dynamic specialized training program.
• Conduct consultations with instructors and course directors to determine instructional requirements, needs, and solutions and assist with course/content approval process.
• Manage training design and development projects including collaborating with technical designers to develop products in support of the training, reporting on progress, and using a database to track projects.
• Analyzing training requirement and designing and developing effective and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning interventions.
• Document, update, and maintain course lesson plans.
• Develop and update online training content including WBTs, job aids, videos, podcasts, etc.
• Conduct training, when required, on instruction techniques, facilitate small-groups, and lead discussion sessions in classes in support of course instructors.
• Act as a role-player during training courses.
• Create new content and/or improve the design and delivery of existing instructor-led and online content.
• Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data in support of course/content evaluation and develop actionable recommendations based on the data for the continual improvement of the product/program.
• Facilitate small group discussions.
• Design, administer, and analyze the results of training-related surveys and assessments.
• Provide reporting on training activities as required.
• Execute diplomacy working with various levels of team members, managers, and customer to identify requirements and develop action plans. 
• Partner cross-functionally with other team members, such as AV, IT, instructors, and production teams, to accomplish tasks and complete projects.
• Work with customers to coordinate resources, prioritize activities, and ensure quality and timely products.
• Utilize a project tracking tool and weekly meetings to track, communicate, and manage all tasks and projects to ensure all assigned tasks are completed or before the established due date.
• Archive projects per office-designated standards.
• Adhere to customer security policies and procedures regarding the use of systems, equipment, facilities, and infrastructure.

What Sets You Apart:

• Must possess a current TS/SCI with polygraph clearance.
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree or higher preferably in adult learning, education, or online learning, or equivalent with at least 12+ years (10+ with Master’s Degree) of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience working with subject matter experts to analyze and determine learning requirements, design solutions, develop engaging content, and implement and evaluate a variety of training solutions.
• Ability to develop strategies for a variety of learning types and their delivery on a range of platforms.
• Experience with the ADDIE model of instructions design, or equivalent, as well as experience and familiarity with a broad range of adult learning theories and models for evaluation of adult learning.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge developing online training and learning tools and the knowledge to be able to successfully differentiate the needs of online training from instructor-led training.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively incorporate accessible design concepts into learning products based on ADA compliance and experience.
• Ability to learn technical skills and teach them to others.
• Demonstrated ability to initiate projects, determine how to effectively move them through to completion, and then to successfully complete those projects.
• A self-starter, who is highly organized and capable of setting and maintaining schedules for themselves and for others, including coordinating and communicating schedule elements.
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills and ability to provide proactive customer service support.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to independently craft error-free, tone appropriate, and professional learning content, marketing, informational, and status communications in a variety of mediums and formats across a wide range of audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work successfully individually, within a team, and across multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated experience/ability to collect, analyze, and report on courses and their impact on learning to inform design decisions or projects.
• Experience or training using quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods.
• Familiarity with handling intellectual property and copyright materials and how to properly incorporate them into learning content.
• Experience utilizing project tracking mechanisms or learning management systems (LMS) to communicate, coordinate, prioritize, and complete projects on schedule.
• Experience using tools to create online learning products, e.g., Camtasia, Articulate Storyline, Lectora, etc. or Adobe products, HTML, or other programming languages; as well as an understanding and experience designing and developing ADA-compliant training products.
• Experience with the Microsoft Office Suite of products (e.g., MS Word, PowerPoint, or Excel). 

You Might Also Have:

• Hold a Master’s degree in adult learning, education, or online learning, or equivalent.
• Experience delivering high-quality classroom instruction that effectively conveys the skills and expertise outlined in the course objectives to students.
• Additional relevant certifications, e.g., instructor, facilitator, MBTI, etc.
• Programming experience in HTML, Python, or other languages in support of developing training content.
• Experience creating content in multimedia software tools like Adobe Creative Suites.
• Experience or training in fundamental data literacy, i.e., the able to input, process, and clean data sets and records.
• Experience or training in copy editing for print or screen publications.

At Leidos, the opportunities are boundless. We challenge our staff with interesting assignments that allow them to thrive professionally and personally. For us, helping you grow your career is good business. We’re excited to learn more about you, apply today!

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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