Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Slater Certified® is an AI-powered workforce development platform for the water and wastewater sector. The Instructional Design Manager will own the end-to-end creation of courses, assessments, learning pathways, and supporting media, while building repeatable content-development processes. The role also collaborates with subject matter experts, product and engineering teams, and learner analytics to maintain high-quality, compliant, and effective training content.
Responsibilities
- Design and build course modules, assessments and learning pathways
- Build for different learning styles on the same material - reading, video, worked example, practice, scenario, assessment - so learners are not forced through one format
- Apply adult-learning practice to an audience of working operators with limited study time
- Produce and direct supporting media: video, diagrams, scenario-based exercises
- Keep content SCORM and xAPI compliant and fit for delivery on our platform
- Take a requirement - from a customer, a regulator, or our own roadmap - and scope what the course has to cover
- Run the discovery yourself: what the learner already knows, what the job actually demands, what the assessment has to prove
- Turn raw source material into a teaching structure - a manual, a standard, a specification, or an hour with someone who has done the job for twenty years
- Estimate and schedule content work honestly, and hold the dates
- Work directly with our wastewater SMEs to get the technical content right
- Run the review process: SME validation, pilot testing, and a real feedback loop from learners
- Hold version control and change history on every course
- Keep content current as regulations, exam blueprints and industry practice change - our courses carry state approvals, and the documentation behind them has to hold up
- Work with product and engineering so content fits how the platform delivers and assesses it
- Work with G.A.I.L., our generative AI tutor, so the content and the tutor reinforce each other rather than duplicating
- Use learner analytics to find where people stall, and fix the content rather than explaining the number
- This is a fully virtual role. You will work alone most of the day, with no one sitting next to you and no one checking whether you started
- Reach out first. Much of your input comes from software engineers, product and subject matter experts who are deep in their own work and will not volunteer it
- Keep your own pipeline full - know what the next three pieces of work are, and go and get the direction you need rather than waiting to be handed it
- Say when you are blocked, early and in writing, rather than absorbing it quietly
- Set the content standards and templates the next hires will work to
- Review and raise the quality of other people's content as the team grows
- Help hire the content creators who will eventually report into this role
Skills
- 5+ years in instructional design, curriculum development or technical training development
- Genuine instructional design craft - can take raw source material and build a course from it, not just produce content someone else has structured
- Designs for multiple learning styles and modalities on the same material, and can explain why each choice was made
- Has built courses from a written requirement, including doing the scoping rather than waiting for a specification
- Fluent in adult-learning practice and competency-based design
- Hands-on with an LMS or LXP, and with SCORM / xAPI
- Can take a technical subject from a subject matter expert and turn it into something a non-academic adult learner will actually finish
- Excels working solo. This is a fully virtual role and long stretches of it are unsupervised
- Proactive about pulling work and direction - chases software engineers, product and SMEs for what is needed instead of waiting, and keeps their own queue full
- Ready to grow into leading a small content team, and wants to
- Has designed and shipped at least one full course end to end - structure, content, assessments and supporting media
- Has built content for more than one learning style on the same material, rather than producing one format and calling it a course
- Has a documented, repeatable development process that someone else could follow, covering scoping, SME input, review and sign-off - the thing a growing content team will run on
- Has taken at least one course from a written requirement to a finished product without needing the requirement rewritten first
- Can point to a measurable improvement in learner completion or assessment performance on the courses worked on
- Construction-sector experience is a significant advantage, and wastewater or industrial wastewater experience is a very significant one
- Experience designing for a regulated or certification-bearing field, or with state licensure and continuing education approval processes
- Has built assessments validated against an external exam
- Has managed or mentored other instructional designers or content creators
- Has used generative AI as part of a content development workflow
- Accessibility standards (WCAG, Section 508) applied in practice
Benefits
- Work is remote and the schedule is flexible.
- Work location - 100% remote
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