Instructional Designer in Burton upon Trent

Overview

Instructional Designer
£35K Basic Salary + excellent benefits
Burton upon Trent (2 x a week)

This is a brilliant opportunity to join a well-respected and established L&D function, providing learning for individuals nationally.

As an Instructional Designer, you\’ll design engaging, digital learning experiences. You will work closely with learning leads and subject matter experts to understand needs and to define objectives, through to translating complex knowledge into high-quality scripts and storyboards to working with content developers and graphic designers to bring the learning to life.

This role is a full-time position, with hybrid working (2 days a week in the West Midlands office).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop blended (predominantly digital), interactive learning experiences
• Collaborate with learning leads and subject matter experts to create content that resonates with the learners
• Translate complex subject matter into digestible and understandable storyboards and scripts
• Develop eLearning utilising authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline or Adapt, or work closely with a Developer to build the content
• Collaborate with Graphic Designers and Video Specialists to incorporate animation and video in the learning
• Use data insights to inform engaging digital learning design
• Ensure learning programmes are effectively deployed, evaluated, and continuously improved using learner feedback and industry trends
• Design flexible learning content that can be reused across digital and face-to-face formats

Qualifications

• A strong grounding in learning design principles and adult learning theory

Skills

• Excellent copy writing skills with the ability to take complex subject matter and turn it into easy to understand, digestible learning
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
• Creative problem-solving skills, particularly when adapting content for different platforms or audiences

Experience

• Proven experience designing engaging, high quality digital and blended learning experiences
• Strong knowledge of learning design principles and ability to write engaging learning copy
• Experience of developing content using an authoring tool, such as Articulate Storyline, Rise or Adapt is desirable
• Track record of working closely with subject matter experts to turn specialist knowledge into engaging learning

Blue Eskimo is the leading provider of specialist recruitment for the Learning and Development, e-learning and Training sectors. We provide interim, fixed term contract and permanent roles for multiple disciplines. These include Learning and Development Managers, e-learning Business Development Managers, E-learning Instructional Designers, eLearning Project Managers, Learning Technology Managers, Training Operations Managers, Training and e-learning Consultants, IT Trainers & Soft Skills Trainers