This role involves designing and executing learning experiences for employees, adapting instructional strategies and managing projects while collaborating with senior management.
Founded 40+ years ago in Houston, TX, Smith sources, manages, and distributes the electronic components that go into everything from mobile phones and computers to appliances and automobiles. We are always looking for talented individuals to join our dynamic, friendly, and professional team environment. Located in more than 20 cities around the world, you’ll find a home here as part of the Smith family.
Job Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with Senior L&D Management to develop and execute end-to-end learning experiences for employees of different functions across the globe.
- Identify and leverage appropriate content design strategies according to instructional design models and standards as defined by the senior management.
- Revise, rewrite, and refine content and activities based on feedback from the senior management and L&D team members.
- Execute L&D video tagging protocols to collaborate with the internal videographers to guide structure for training videos.
- Determine, communicate, and manage concurrent project scopes, requirements, learning objectives, and timelines.
- Adapts instructional strategies and models, manages and supports creation of media to support adult learning in the corporate environment according to contemporary pedagogical and instructional design research and innovations.
- Demonstrate and utilize effective needs analysis strategies aligned with standards set by Senior Management, project management, instructional design and materials development, and evaluation skills.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Education, Organizational Psychology, Cognitive Science or a related field.
- With 3-5 years’ related experience preferably with adult learners in a corporate environment.
- Experience in delivering technical systems content and, developing learning curricula for adults, multilingual learners, especially for eLearning corporate environments and maintaining learning repositories and content management systems.
- Knowledge of instructional design models, standards, and workflows.
- Detail-oriented, excellent communication and organization skills.
- PC proficiency in Microsoft Office, Adobe, and learning management systems.
Smith is an equal opportunity employer
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