Instructional Designer Consultant

Instructional Designer Consultant

Company Overview:

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved - and is committed to continuing to improve - economies, societies and most importantly, people's lives.

Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.

Background

The America's Regional Business Partnership (RBP), one of three RBPs within the company, currently manages donor-funded development projects funded by USAID, CDC, and others. These projects are implemented in approximately 90 countries around the world. To support this diverse and growing workforce, Palladium is seeking to further develop a partnership-wide training program and tools that will allow staff to apply improved competencies and skills for managing complex donor-funded programs worldwide. The current training curriculum covers the following content areas:

• Financial Management
• Human Resources Management
• Acquisition and Assistance
• Compliance
• Project Start-Up/Close-Out
• Safety and Security
• Risk Management
• Sustainable Business (ethics, environment, and safeguarding)

The new training curriculums ideally include a blend of classroom-based trainings, e-learning, job aids, procedure manuals, etc that deliver engaging and effective learning experiences. In addition, Palladium is seeking to broaden the audience for these training activities to include key staff in project offices around the globe, so scalability of training materials will be preferable.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

The Instructional Designer Consultant will be responsible for the design of a comprehensive training program with clear learning strategies and with an element focused on behavioral change.

Specifically, the Instructional Designer Consultant will:

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  Conduct effective stakeholder, subject matter expert, and learner interviews for the identification and curation of relevant content for the end-learner
• Design training curriculums with proposed structure, platform, content, activities, and assessments that align to the identified learning objectives
• Review existing training materials to identify appropriate platforms and content for e-learning modules
• Propose improvements to enhance existing content, methodologies, tools, and templates to align to identified learning objectives
• Identify and apply technical and behavioral performance improvement solutions to help achieve learning objectives
• Design facilitator guides for various modes of training delivery and content
• Design evaluation tools to measure training effectiveness and learning retention, with a focus on behaviorally-based assessments and evaluation methods
• Any other tasks assigned by the supervisor.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Instructional design experience working with faculty/instructors/subject matter experts to design, develop and support delivery of instruction.
• Demonstrated knowledge or expertise in the design of web-based training platforms for diverse, multi-national audiences.
• Ability to produce superior writing and communications products.
• Specialized experience in one or more of the above-mentioned content areas a plus.
  
  

Supervision:
The Instructional Designer Consultant will report directly to the Senior Manager, Process Excellence, or his/her designate.

Applicant Instructions:

Qualified applicants should apply through the Palladium website and be prepared to provide portfolio samples upon request.