Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McGarity Consulting Group is a woman-owned learning design firm that develops behavior-changing courses for corporate, government, and higher education clients. The Instructional Designer will serve as the technical authority for a federal corrections training modernization program, designing and evaluating specialized curricula, developing instructional materials and exercises, validating content, and performing quality control on deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical authority responsible for designing, updating, modernizing, and evaluating specialized correctional curricula
- Develop lesson plans, course content, and interactive exercises aligned with corrections policy and applicable local, state, and federal regulation
- Deliver authoritative guidance on core correctional subjects and define the testing metrics used to assess training effectiveness
- Validate the instructional accuracy of all content produced by the design team before it reaches the client
- Work directly with client subject matter experts and the contracting officer's representative through structured review and approval cycles
- Perform quality control on deliverables, including storyboards, published courses, instructor and participant manuals, and assessment banks
- Collaborate with instructional designers, a graphic designer, an accessibility tester, and a technical writer under a project manager, on a program running multiple courses simultaneously
Skills
- Education - Bachelor's degree or higher in criminal justice, criminology, psychology, sociology, public administration, or emergency management
- 2. Corrections academy certification
- State- or agency-certified corrections academy training, completed through a state department of corrections, a county sheriff's office or jail authority, or the Federal Bureau of Prisons
- 3. Seven or more years of experience
- Across correctional core subject areas, and that experience must include all three of the following:
- • Recent in-field corrections experience, meaning work inside correctional or detention operations rather than work about corrections
- • Development of occupational subject matter content
- • Quality control of deliverables
- 4. Demonstrated dual capability
- Deep familiarity with both the development of adult learning materials and current correctional facility operations, including safety and security operations
- A master's in one of these fields is strongly preferred and affects how the role is classified on the contract
- • A master's degree in one of the fields listed above
- • Corrections academy instructor certification, or experience as an academy or in-service trainer
- • American Correctional Association certification: Certified Corrections Manager, Certified Corrections Executive, or Certified Corrections Officer
- • Hands-on authoring experience in ELB Gold Suite Lectora, Articulate 360 Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, or Envato Elements
- • Working knowledge of Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility standards as applied to e-learning
- • Experience developing content for a jail, prison, community supervision, or juvenile detention agency under a federal or state contract
- • PREA auditor or PREA coordinator experience
- • Demonstrated track record working remotely on a distributed team against fixed milestone dates
Benefits
- Fully remote
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