Senior Instructional Designer (ISD) at Buchanan & Edwards in Dulles, Virginia

Job Description:

Overview

We're looking for game changers. People who love what they do and who they do it for. Providing consulting services in operational support, intelligence collection, reporting, and data governance, RenXTech is a leader in delivering solutions for high priority national security concerns. Are you ready for a change?

RenXTech is seeking an Instructional Designer (ISD) to support our client's operational requirements on a mission focused program within a challenging, dynamic setting located in the Washington Metropolitan Area.

We welcome the most challenging problems facing our national security and apply intellect, talent, and innovation to reach feasible and valuable solutions to each challenge. That means we expect our employees to bring their "A game," and you have the right to expect the same from the company that employs you. We want to hear your ideas. We want to hear your concerns. We want to make sure you have what you need to do the best you can on the job and grow in your career with us over time. Almost all companies say they have a culture of inclusiveness and that they value employee input, but RenXTech puts that statement to work every day. It's time for a change. Come and experience a company that actually cares.
Clearance
TS/SCI w. poly Responsibilities

Experienced instructional designer to support a training program for the Customer's technical targeting occupation by designing and evaluating course curriculum and assisting with multiple aspects of the training program. The training class is a multi-week blended learning experience for the students.

• Develop project management plans for instructional design projects. The plans may include, but are not limited to, project schedules, task listings and assignments, milestones and deliverables, scope outlines, or level-of-effort estimates.
• Work with Customer POC's to determine the learning need, the appropriate learning outcomes, and the most appropriate instructional methodologies based on adult learning theory.
• Design instructional strategies that engage, motivate, or are learner-centered. Demonstrate how the strategy was specifically designed to meet those goals.
• Assist course instructors by providing clear instructor guides, conducting assessments of training outcomes during pilots by observing the course and providing course instruction as applicable.
• Provide formative and summative assessment capabilities to support student feedback process and training program. Use custom course reports with course evaluation data to measure course outcomes and facilitate improvements.
• Utilize core mission objectives and a comprehensive understanding of the Customer organization to evaluate, design, brief, and deliver relevant course material or content for instructor or student use in approved formats such as visuals, handouts, and reference guides. Archive supporting information on the Customer's network.
• Analyze each customer-approved design concept to determine the tasks, skills, level of effort, and sequence of events required to create the learning experience. Ensure design concepts demonstrate an advanced understanding of instructional design models and learning theory, are technically sound, and consider possible constraints such as resources and capabilities given the classified environment.
• Collaborate across functional teams such as stakeholders, SME's, or media development teams and demonstrate how such cross-functional collaboration has benefitted an instructional design project or products.

• Current TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree (4 years of relevant experience may substitute in lieu of degree) and 8+ years of related experience.
• Instructional design experience in an adult learning context.
• Track record of developing, implementing, and evaluating project-based learning.
• Demonstrated ability to create measurable and enabling learning objectives, along with supportive course activities and exercises.
• Successful experience facilitating training working groups and panel discussions.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and time management skills

RenXTech is a wholly owned subsidiary of Buchanan & Edwards, and provides consulting services in operational support, intelligence collection, reporting, and data governance. Located in Arlington, VA, RenXTech offers expertise on a variety of national security topics, with specific focus on operational support, technical operations, policies and management of large volumes of data, analysis of large amounts of data, & effective approaches to evaluating and sharing data, and innovative techniques for information collection. Our consultants develop and deliver training programs on subjects including cyber intelligence, data governance and information sharing protocols, intelligence collection, and reporting techniques. RenXTech has a mission first culture and boasts the benefits & perks of a small company with the resources, stability, and career mobility of a large corporation. RenXTech is dedicated to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We are committed to crafting a workplace that endorses creativity and innovation, and promotes engagement through open communication, acceptance of new people and ideas, and a supportive team dynamic. RenXTech is an equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities / Women / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

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