Senior Instructional Designer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save ( student debt program and FreeU ( education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Abbott Park, IL location within the AQR Abbott Quality & Regulatory division.

Individual contributor with comprehensive knowledge in instructional design with an ability to execute highly complex or specialized projects. Responsible for designing and maintaining programs for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.

What You'll Work On:

• Design learning assets: Instructor-led, web-based, job-aids. Select and use a variety of techniques for determining instructional content and strategies. Create a design document that specifies learning objectives, measures of student learning, learning materials design specifications, and learning impact (e.g. business results). Evaluate/Recommend existing learning materials.

• Develop assets: Create storyboards, web-based training for interactive multimedia delivery, instructional graphics, and diagrams. Use variety of authoring tools: Articulate360, Synthesia, and Microsoft Office.

• Evaluate and assess the impact of learning. Work with management to evaluate the effectiveness of the training curriculum by implementing measures to track outcomes and ensure alignment to business objectives.

• Provide project management during design to implementation phases of the learning solution. Interface with clients, business organizations and vendors as necessary during the design process.

• Understand business strategy and translate into learning solutions to support the client population.

• Ability to think clearly, write concisely and communicate effectively, including being able to explain technical concepts in non-technical terms.

• Demonstrated instructional design and development skills including needs analysis, and systematic instructional design processes, graphic design and visual support, evaluation, and impact assessment.

• Demonstrate ability to apply adult learning principles.

• Demonstrated problem-identification, problem-reporting and problem-solving skills in working with computer technology.

• Familiar with developing internet and eLearning technologies.

• Project and time management skills-managing multiple priorities.

• Good interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.

• Team player with a positive attitude, sense of urgency, and willingness to do whatever is needed to achieve project goals and requirements.

Required Qualifications:

• Associate/Bachelors Degree in Instructional Design, Training and Development, Education, or related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience of Instructional Design.

• Articulate360, specifically Storyline.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

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