Instructional Design Role - BFS

Locations are Bangalore/Pune/Mumbai/Gurgaon

Practice Overview :

CN TD&L specializes in envisioning, designing, developing and deploying industry-specific custom learning solutions in areas of large business and workforce transformations, leadership capability development, corporate academies etc. that abide to the growing needs of mobility and technology usage. We help clients develop individual and organizational capabilities that accelerate workforce productivity and business performance through a complete end-to-end learning solution including:

- Learning Planning: Aligning an organization's learning needs with business objectives

- Learning Design & Development: Building, buying and reusing learning content

- Learning Delivery: Planning and delivering learning across a mix of media

- Learning Administration : Enabling learning management and administrative services

Considering future workforce needs and digital opportunities, CN offers learning services that enable clients to incorporate new ways of working and define their talent development strategy through business-aligned yet cutting edge training solutions:

- Anytime, anywhere learning: Provide customized, networked, and just-in-time learning in the form of games, engaging and media-rich videos, and bite-sized modules

- Organization-based, offline and online learning: Provide formal learning methods for complex and highly technical content that are focused towards high-impact learning experience and performance assessment

- Explore, research and learn with peers: Provide opportunities for collaboration forums within organizations that help increase employee engagement, encourage inputs from employees at all levels and serve as good repository of knowledge-based material by leveraging forums and knowledge management platforms

- Real-time, decision-based learning: Provide real-time, context-integrated learning to apply skills learnt making learners feel more confident and lead to effective enhancement of their skills

- Cloud-based, competency driven off the shelf courses: Provide unique cloud-based, competency driven offering of Academies, blended with outcome-driven and innovative delivery techniques

With a 400+ team of deep-skilled learning practitioners across India, China, Poland, LatAm, Germany, South Africa, the CN TD&L Practice has executed more than 300+ projects with over 100+ clients, across North America, EALA and APAC, across all industries like Products, Resources, Finance, Public Sector etc.

Skill/Operating Group : Instructional Design [T&O] Level Consultant

Location : Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore/Pune

Travel Percentage : Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Principal Duties And Responsibilities :

- Together with the Functional Manager and Subject Matter Experts, understand the business problem, target audiences, learning needs, and develop learning and change objectives to implement in the proposed learning solution.

- Effectively collaborate with the client team to identify the solution approach and design, and work through the design, development, and delivery phases.

- Understand the overall learning solution design and create effective training materials that map to the client's business needs.

- Support the Functional Manager to develop/identify and take client buy-in on Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) measures for the project (Language Style guide, Guidelines, Checklists, templates, branding guidelines etc.) based on the project requirements.

- Conduct Training Need Analysis (TNA) and develop the training curriculum.

- Develop high-level and detailed content outlines as per the curriculum.

- Design and create standards, guidelines, templates, and checklists for the proposed learning solution.

- Develop and review training deliverables as per the agreed upon quality standards and ensure that the deliverable quality is as per the project quality parameters and industry standards.

- Provide team members clear and effective feedback based on your reviews with the intent to develop their instructional design skills.

- Collaborate with the different internal and client stakeholders to design and develop the relevant and effective training deliverable.

- Ensure that the project meets all productivity targets as per the project plans.

- Identify and share the risks with the Project Leads/Functional Manager to discuss possible solutions/mitigations/alternatives.

- Contribute to users/client organization through the Learning process.

- Brief and coach instructional designers and content developers to prepare materials for Instructor Development Workshops, Train the Trainers etc.

- Identify opportunities to implement new and innovative learning strategies into the solution.

Qualifications :

- Education : Graduate/Post Graduate preferable with Background in HR/Learning

- Professional Background : Desirable - MA/Diploma in Instructional Design or MA in Learning Sciences, MBA

Experience : 9+ years of proven experience in content development and instructional designing.

- Extensive experience in developing, reviewing and delivering different training modalities like Instructor-Led Trainings (ILTs), Web-Based Trainings (WBTs), application simulations, job aids, and quick reference guides.

- Experience in working with global teams.

- Experience in leading and coaching small teams independently.

Key Competencies and Skills :

- Ability to design, develop and deliver new age learning modalities, such as gamified learning, microlearning, mobile learning would be an added advantage.

- In-depth knowledge and experience to identify, select and recommend a variety of training modalities, learning strategies and technologies for a learning solution.

- Ability to apply proven learning methodologies and emerging technologies for adult learning.

- Proficient in industry standard design / rapid authoring tools such as Articulate / Captivate / Lectora / Camtasia and SAP Enable Now / WalkMe etc. and be comfortable with client proprietary authoring tools (The candidate should be aware of the technical functionalities and limitations of these tools.)

- Exceptional design and writing skills along with strong editing and reviewing skills.

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, project-driven environment.

Soft Skills :

- Strong analytical skills

- Integrated business perspective

- Business acumen

- Communicate effectively in visual, oral and written form.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Cross cultural competence