Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sargent & Lundy is forming a new Training & Development team to support internal and external instructor-led training initiatives for its Nuclear Power Group. The Instructor-Led Training Specialist will serve as a client-facing learning consultant, leading needs analysis, program design, coordination, stakeholder collaboration, evaluation, and project management for technical training solutions.
Responsibilities
- Leading intake/scoping calls, workshops, focus groups, and other analysis activities to uncover and define training problems, audience profiles, performance objectives, learning objectives, and other key insights that will shape solution design
- Using analysis frameworks (like tasks/skills analysis, critical mistakes analysis, journey maps, etc.) to structure analysis activities and document insights
- Summarizing and clearly articulating key insights in client-facing reports and presentations
- Performing activities that help you develop a deep understanding of NPG and your learner audiences
- Designing strategic and achievable learning solution proposals (e.g., high-level designs, curriculum maps, course outlines) that define how to address the problems and objectives identified during analysis (i.e., define modalities, duration/scope, sequencing, instructional strategies and archetypes, etc.)
- Mapping connections, scaffolding, and key themes across programs/courses. Designing solutions that fit seamlessly within the larger training framework
- Designing meaningful activities and practical exercises that align with learning objectives, promote engagement/retention, and simulate realistic tasks
- Leveraging available technology and equipment (e.g., MS Teams meeting features, lab equipment) in course designs to enhance interactivity where appropriate
- Designing evaluation plans and measures to assess training effectiveness
- Developing and presenting client-facing presentations that clearly communicate the core elements of the solution proposal
- Partnering with Training team leadership to define activity archetypes and create playbooks that enable consistent ILT design/development at scale
- Overseeing successful and sustainable program implementation
- Aligning and coordinating cross-team parties, such as implementation admins, facilitators, and other stakeholders
- Identifying and mitigating risks and error traps in execution
- Leading workshops with internal and external stakeholders to collaboratively work through analysis and design
- Guiding project team members to align solutions with instructional best practices
- Providing clear handoffs to Training team members who may own specific detailed design, development, and implementation activities. Collaborating with them to ensure alignment with the solution vision
- Gathering and implementing feedback from Training & Development group peers, NPG stakeholders and subject-matter specialists, external clients, and learner audiences (via deliverable reviews, interviews, focus groups, surveys, etc.)
- Synthesizing and analyzing data to identify trends and form insights/recommendations for continuous improvement and revisions
- Coordinating with subject-matter specialists and stakeholders to validate solution appropriateness, alignment with business needs, and technical accuracy
- Serving as a primary point of contact for internal and external project stakeholders
- Applying project management skills to lead your assigned projects to through the entire project cycle
- Creating and managing schedules
- Adapting team processes to establish project-specific review and approval workflows
- Providing status updates to various stakeholders
- Managing scope
- Maintaining accurate version control
Skills
- * 8 or more years of experience as a Curriculum Designer, Training Specialist, Instructional Designer, Performance Consultant, Training Program Manager, or similar position
- * Bachelor's degree in English, Communications, Learning Sciences, Instructional Design, Adult Education, Engineering, or related field
- * Strong written and verbal communication skills
- * Strong attention to detail
- * Strong organizational, time management, and project management skills
- * Strong relationship-building skills
- * Ability to work with templates and adhere to style guidelines
- * Proficiency in ADDIE, SAT, or performance-based models of training development
- * Ability to independently take vague/undefined performance problems, define a systematic approach to uncovering needs, and develop a solution vision
- * Experience working with highly technical, complex, regulated content
- * Experience designing large, multi-modality training solutions
- * Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word
- This position requires occasional travel to Chicago, regional offices, and client locations to support project needs
- We do not sponsor employees for work authorization in the U.S. for this position
- Along with submitting an application, please include a portfolio that includes work samples of needs analysis deliverables, solution deisngs, and evaluation results. Samples may be sanitized, redacted, or otherwise anonymized to protect confidential information
- * Experience in the nuclear energy industry or another regulated, engineering, or safety-critical environment
- * Experience with course-level design and development
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision health plans
- Life and Accident Insurance
- Disability Coverage
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Back-Up Daycare
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401(k)
- Pre-Tax Commuter Account
- Merit Scholarship Program
- Employee Discount Program
- Corporate Charitable Giving Program
- Tuition Assistance
- First Professional Licensure Bonus
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Paid Annual Personal/Sick Time (PST)
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Bereavement Leave
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Eligible employees may participate in a yearly discretionary bonus
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