Instructional Designer/Senior Instructional Designer

About This Role

This role involves collaborating with subject matter experts to design and develop engaging learning solutions for PPL employees, covering technical skills, compliance, and safety. The designer applies learning principles to analyze, design, develop, and evaluate instructional materials, ensuring alignment with business needs and performance improvement. The Senior Instructional Designer takes on a similar role with a greater depth of experience and understanding of e-Learning design.

Responsibilities

• Apply instructional design expertise to create learning solutions using various media such as CBT/WBT programming, video, sound, webinars, and classroom technology
• Develop content, scripts, storyboards, and program flow for multimedia production
• Apply expertise in instructional systems design to develop interactive lessons within the classroom setting, utilizing various learning compression methodologies (including accelerated learning and participant-centered approaches) to optimize the educational experience
• Define the necessary requirements, evaluation methods, and feedback processes for developing webinars, computerized tests, e-Learning modules, and highly interactive classroom lessons
• Make recommendations for integrating technology into classroom settings
• Consult with instructors and experts to enhance the student experience through varied teaching methods
• Research and make recommendations on educational best practices, instructional resources, instructional technologies, and multimedia hardware/software to support teaching and learning
• Lead projects, organize and prioritize workflow, follow up on tasks and action items, and perform tasks to ensure training development projects are completed by established deadlines
• Develop media-rich e-Learning modules and simulations using Articulate 360, Vyond, Photoshop, Adobe Creative Suite, Camtasia, Captivate (or other multi-media solutions)
• Produce webinars using Zoom, MS Teams or other emerging webinar platforms
• Assess emerging learning technologies such as classroom apps for use at PPL
• Where appropriate, develop standards and guidance for tools
• Work with PPL's equivalent of an LMS to create and track courses
• Comply with all policies and standards
• May be assigned an Electric Utilities emergency and storm role, which may necessitate working after-hours, outside of normal schedule

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 2+ years experience in instructional design and course development or equivalent combination of education and experience on a year for year basis is required for Instructional Designer
• 5+ years experience in instructional design and course development or equivalent combination of education and experience on a year for year basis is required for Senior Instructional Designer