Lead Instructional Systems Designer

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🦀 Maryland, Virginia – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $0 - $95k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Harkcon, Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2005

🎖️ Defense

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Defense • Healthcare • Logistics

Harkcon, Inc. is a veteran-founded government services firm that delivers customized human and organizational performance and technology solutions to U. S. federal agencies. For two decades it has supported emergency management, crisis leadership, crisis communications, workforce requirements determination, and performance management through consulting, training, and technical support. Harkcon works with clients such as the Social Security Administration and the U. S. Coast Guard and provides contract vehicles and program-specific services to improve organizational effectiveness.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary instructional-design and technical counterpart to Government stakeholders • Lead analysis, design, development, revision, and quality assurance of instructor-led, virtual, technology-enabled, and blended training products • Review and enhance existing courseware for instructional effectiveness, organization, learner engagement, technical accuracy, and alignment with learning objectives • Develop new courses and instructional modules using Government-furnished information, technical source material, and SME input • Develop and refine measurable Terminal Performance Objectives and Enabling Objectives • Conduct audience, task, content, and instructional analyses to determine course structure, instructional sequence, and learning strategies • Develop course outlines, lesson structures, facilitated discussions, icebreakers, scenarios, group activities, exercises, and other adult-learning activities • Develop and revise PowerPoint-based instructional materials and supporting Word/PDF products • Develop detailed instructor guides with facilitation guidance, activity instructions, timing considerations, and slide-level discussion points • Develop student syllabi and supporting curriculum documentation • Coordinate Government and contractor SME reviews and resolve technical comments before incorporating them into final products • Maintain consistency across presentations, instructor guides, student materials, learning objectives, activities, and supporting documentation • Develop interactive PowerPoint features including hyperlinks, reference aids, navigation elements, pop-up information, and instructor-support functionality • Support accessible instructional products consistent with Section 508 requirements • Coordinate preparation, reintegration, formatting review, and functional quality assurance of translated presentation slides and student syllabi • Support Government review cycles and incorporate consolidated comments into final products • Conduct instructional, editorial, accessibility, functional, and release-readiness quality checks • Coordinate with the Project Manager on schedules, deliverable status, risks, decisions, and weekly/monthly reporting • Participate in up to two international seminar observations and use instructor and learner feedback to inform targeted curriculum improvements

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Education, Training and Development, Educational Technology, Organizational Development, or a related field; equivalent directly relevant experience may be considered • 5+ years of progressively responsible instructional design, curriculum development, or training-development experience • Demonstrated experience applying ADDIE or another recognized systematic instructional-design methodology • Demonstrated experience independently leading substantial curriculum-development or course-modernization efforts • Experience developing and substantially revising instructor-led training • Experience developing measurable learning objectives, instructor guides, student materials, presentations, activities, and curriculum documentation • Experience converting complex technical or operational information into clear instructional content for adult learners • Experience working directly with Government personnel and technical SMEs • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Word • Ability to independently manage multiple instructional products through review, revision, and final delivery • Strong writing, editing, facilitation, organization, and quality-control skills • Ability to meet firm delivery schedules and manage concurrent instructional-development activities • Ability and willingness to travel internationally • Experience developing training for a federal government customer preferred • Experience supporting maritime, transportation, infrastructure, emergency management, public safety, security, military, or law-enforcement environments preferred • Experience supporting international capacity-building or foreign-partner training preferred • Experience developing Section 508-compliant instructional products preferred • Experience developing interactive or technology-enabled presentations preferred • Experience supporting multilingual or localized instructional products preferred • Familiarity with maritime or port-security concepts preferred • Experience facilitating curriculum-development sessions or SME working groups preferred • Current U.S. passport or ability to obtain one before required international travel preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Occasional international travel • Opportunity to participate in up to two international seminar observations • Support from senior instructional-design reviewers, maritime and specialty SMEs, translation support, and project-management resources