Instructional Designer

Requisition ID # 175065 

Job Category: Human Resources 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: People

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Livermore

Department Overview

Known as the People team, the Human Resources (HR) and the Enterprise Change Office (ECO) together, joyfully deliver expertise, resources, and solutions to positively impact our coworkers, company, partners, and hometowns in achieving amazing outcomes.

Position Summary

PG&E Academy is looking for an Instructional Designer to join our PG&E Academy Curriculum Development Team in support of Gas Operations learning needs. This role works closely with the development team and clients to develop and maintain the learning content, tools, systems, and programs that support our employee’s ability to safely and efficiently perform their work and job tasks. This is accomplished via a wide range of methodologies, delivery mechanisms and formats to meet specific business needs. The Instructional Designer will work closely with subject matter experts as well as internal and external stakeholders to translate business and performance objectives into learning and performance support solutions and to ensure that employees are trained to competence.

The successful candidate should have a proven track record in design and development. The Instructional Designer must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. The candidate should have strong organizational skills and possess the ability to analyze data and consult with client groups.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum: $80,000

Bay Area Maximum: $120,000​

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct needs analysis, design curriculum and develop training content and materials utilizing various training tools, methods, approaches and tactics within PG&E’s quality standards.
• Provide input regarding learning solution and estimate of work.
• Collaborate and consult with project partners and stakeholders to design and develop learning solutions that reinforce business goals and best practices.
• Facilitate content development sessions with subject matter experts and stakeholders, under the guidance of more experienced learning professional.
• Identify key metrics for measuring training effectiveness, aligning training results with business goals and metrics.
• Manage time and tasks and escalate challenges appropriately.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's Degree in Instructional Design, Liberal Arts, or related degree/ field, or equivalent work experience.
• 3 years of Instructional Design, communications, teaching, training, change management, or graphic design work experience

Desired:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office Products, i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint- as needed to perform at the job level.
• Knowledge of e-learning and video development/ editing, including tools such as Author-it, Questionmark, Smart Media World (SMW), and Articulate Storyline .
• Strong communication, collaboration, facilitation, organization, and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively with subject matter experts and stakeholders.
• Ability to travel locally up to 20%.