Instructional Design Specialist

A reputable medical center in Midtown, NYC is looking to hire an Instructional Design Specialist to join their team! Apply now for more details! Immediate need!

This is a long-term contract opportunity, paying $37/hr

** fully onsite **

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Instructional Designer role is responsible for designing, developing, delivering, and maintaining highly effective and engaging learning content for new technology solutions at the company. This role blends instructional design with direct training delivery to support enterprise initiatives, new system rollouts, and ongoing organizational learning needs. The individual will leverage adult learning principles, instructional design best practices, facilitation skills, and user readiness strategies to meet the needs of diverse audiences across multiple delivery methods, including virtual instructor-led sessions, onsite training, e-learning, videos, and other digitized content.

Job Responsibilities:

• The ideal candidate is an experienced professional who works largely independently against defined objectives, contributes actively in team and technical conversations, understands product functionality, and makes solutions better through thoughtful, user-centered design and delivery that strengthens adoption outcomes.
• Experienced professional with deep knowledge and actionable experience (domain level).
• Works largely independently against defined objectives.
• Understands technical discussions and is able to actively contribute.
• Makes the solution better through learner-driven adoption support.
• Operates at the subsystem level, understanding how training efforts connect to broader enterprise initiatives.

Instructional Design & Content Development

• Design and develop a variety of instructional materials, including guides, job aids, presentations, videos, e‐learning modules, and other digital content.
• Translate identified performance gaps and business needs into learning requirements and measurable learning objectives.
• Selects appropriate instructional strategies to meet the needs of specialized audiences.
• Conducts QA, establishes templates and governance standards, and maintains inventory of learning materials and shared team resources.
• Uploads and maintains training materials in team repositories and the LMS as needed.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies.
• Knowledge of content authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline, SnagIt, Captivate, Photoshop, Adobe Premier and/or Camtasia.
• Minimum of 1-3 years of related experience