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Position Overview
A Learning Experience Specialist plays a vital role in supporting the design and development of engaging and effective learning experiences. They create learner-centered educational content by applying advanced instructional design principles and utilizing modern technology and multimedia tools. Working closely with design specialists, senior specialists and subject matter experts, they help identify learning objectives, curate existing materials or develop interactive materials, and utilize platforms such as Learning Management Systems (LMS) and mobile learning applications.
Their responsibilities include rapid e-learning design and curation, gathering user feedback, analyzing data to improve learning solutions, and ensuring accessibility and relevance of the content for diverse learners. This position is ideal for individuals looking to build their skills in learning experience design that goes beyond the learning event and contribute to enhancing organizational learning and development.
Essential Duties
Include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Partner with the Organizational Development team, functional training teams, and Subject Matter experts (SMEs) to do rapid iteration design, develop, and implement practical learning experiences aligned to business objectives.
- Evaluate, update and revise existing content to meet the learning objectives and needs of our internal employees.
- Apply adult learning principles and systematic instructional design to create learning experiences and content that best fit the needs of the learner.
- Participate in the needs assessment and prioritization of design projects.
- Assist in the selection of appropriate learning technologies to aid in delivery of learning solutions with the Exact Sciences learning ecosystem.
- Engage and interact with key stakeholders (SMEs, leaders, deciders) to pilot and validate learning solutions.
- Apply strategies to engage learners from infographics, e-learning, and social learning to job aides, role plays, and gamification.
- Design within company design standards ensuring consistency in language, terminology, branding, and that all designs meet ADA standards.
- Convert information into easily used and understood text and graphics.
- Support audio and video production by working with the design team to schedule locations, voice actors, equipment, etc.
- Take ideas/concepts and translate them into objectives, outlines, plans, etc.
- Ability to manage and deliver multiple projects simultaneously.
- Contribute to a team-based, collaborative learning environment.
- Assist in sourcing existing content and resources.
- Demonstrate excellent communication, teamwork, and adaptability.
- Apply basic communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
- Exercise basic adaptability to handle changing project requirements and priorities.
- Incorporate basic problem-solving skills to address challenges in learning design and development.
- Display basic time management skills to ensure timely completion of tasks and projects.
- Demonstrate basic creativity to develop engaging and visually appealing learning materials.
- Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
- Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
- Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
- Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
- Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Instructional Design, Business Administration, Information Technology, Human Resources, or related field; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 4 years of relevant experience.
- 3+ years of experience graphic design, procedure writing, and/or multimedia content creation.
- Strong understanding of adult learning theory.
- Demonstrated proficiency in design tools such as Camtasia, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Captivate, and Articulate 360.
- Basic knowledge of adult learning methodologies, needs of the modern learner as a consumer of information, and current trends impacting organizational development.
- Experience with eLearning concepts, tools and instructional design methodologies.
- Experience with e-Learning design, video/media production and editing.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS), Learning Experience Platforms, and other app based or mobile learning platforms.
- Experience in user testing and feedback implementation.
- Experience doing instructor lead training or facilitation.
- Knowledge of online and mobile learning platforms.
- Basic skills in implementing e-learning modules and multimedia-based content.
- Understanding of corporate learning environments and employee development needs.
- Experience working in a collaborative team-based environment.
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