Learning Designer

Location: Mississauga, Ontario

Pay: $66/hr

Duration: 8 month contract

We are partnering with a retail conglomerate to hire on a Learning Designer to work primarily on Compliance courses and will need end to end learning design capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Assess, design, develop, and implement sustainable blended learning and knowledge management solutions relating to principles/frameworks, procedures, and technologies with the goal of maximizing learner experience, increasing knowledge retention, and providing flexible learning.
• Audit, leverage, and adapt learning collateral from other internal teams as well as our international partners.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure learning solutions directly address business needs, are aligned with corporate best practices, and effectively drive performance.
• Leverage instructional design and digital media expertise, best practices, and knowledge into blended learning solutions that result in a positive user experience and behavior change.
• Develop learning that meets the proposed outcomes and delivers on learning metrics.
• Apply Level 1-4 evaluation (reaction, learning, transfer/behavior, and impact) to measure the effectiveness of blended learning solutions and provide reports and recommendations for continuous improvement of learning initiatives.
• If/when applicable, liaise with external learning vendors, including end to end project management of externally-developed learning solutions.
• Actively maintain existing documentation and content to ensure it is up to date and technically validated.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and development. Make recommendations to streamline, modernize and evolve learning function.

Qualifications:

• In depth knowledge of and 3+ years of experience in instructional design principles and practices, adult learning principles, interactive learning design and blended learning techniques (classroom design, e-learning, action learning, communities of practice, self-paced)
• Proficiency with authoring software such as Articulate Storyline, as well as multimedia design tools such Adobe Pro (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Animate)
• Photography and Videography/ Editing and Narration expertise is a benefit Experience with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is a benefit
• Experience with Axonify is a benefit
• Strong written, and oral communication skills are a must
• Self-starter and ability to take initiative to deliver results Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft office applications, specifically Word and PowerPoint
• Strong relationship management and collaboration skills (internal and external)