Senior Instructional Designer - Articulate, Canva

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Values Rooted in Purpose

We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

About The Opportunity

We are currently seeking a highly experienced Senior Instructional Designer (ID) to design and develop advanced instructional training materials that support market-leading higher education software and SaaS solutions. In this senior role, you will demonstrate exceptional project management, training needs analysis, training development, and evaluation skills. Our Senior IDs independently develop courses (from entry through advanced levels) for both technical and functional end users. The ability to develop training using multimedia technology and eLearning authoring tools is critical to success in this role. Under the guidance of COO Enablement leadership and learning experience designers (LXDs), the Senior ID acts as a key liaison between stakeholders and Enablement to determine training needs and appropriate methods of delivery.

Where you will make an impact

• Create a comprehensive training vision for stakeholders and transform that vision into engaging instructional strategies and assets, while working closely with LXDs to ensure alignment with the overall training program vision.
• Recommend appropriate modes of training delivery, including but not limited to, eLearning, instructor-led, and blended training solutions.
• Apply advanced instructional design theories and best practices to training development to achieve consistent and high-quality results.
• Build engaging learning activities and compelling course content that enhances retention and knowledge transfer.
• Lead project management efforts, plan, and organize the development of product training courses.
• Collaborate closely with LXDs to create development timelines, monitor milestones and deliverables, and communicate potential risks and roadblocks.
• Adhere to documented instructional design standards and processes to ensure quality and consistency.
• Assess existing learning resources to ensure quality and accuracy of training content.
• Determine criteria to assess learner performance.

What You Will Bring

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience interpreting and applying current and emerging adult learning theories and project management strategies to the design and development of training materials.
• Proven ability to work comfortably in a deadline-oriented work environment and to execute complex projects simultaneously, with a high degree of quality.
• Demonstrated skill in collaborating on cross-functional teams to efficiently produce accurate training deliverables on schedule.
• Extensive experience creating a variety of training formats, such as on-demand, instructor-led, and virtual instructor-led.
• Strong experience engaging with technical content and subject matter.
• Expertise in designing and developing training in a variety of modalities, such as on-demand (eLearning), instructor-led, and blended experiences.
• Successful performance on global teams, across a variety of geographic locations and cultures.
• Ability to summarize technical information (verbally and in writing) for a non-technical audience.
• Proficiency in content authoring tools such as Articulate 360 suite, Adobe Captivate, Canva, video editing tools, text-to-speech technologies, etc.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong interpersonal, communication (written and verbal), and organizational skills.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

What makes #Ellucianlife

• 22 days annual leave plus 11 public holidays

• Competitive gratuity policy

• Group insurance and Annual health checkup plan with a variety of family and wellness benefits.

• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests

• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us

• Wellness

• Headspace (mental health)

• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)

• RethinkCare - caregiver support

• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Buzzinga and Lean In Team to name a few.

• Parental leave

• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team

• We Foster a learning culture with:

• Education Assistance Program

• Professional development opportunities