eLearning Developer

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Here at Generac we don’t simply wait for opportunities to come to us. Our team is consistently on the lookout for new and innovative advances in our industry, which has led to our great success and company growth. We are proud to be a leader in the power generation industry and are quickly breaking ground in the Clean Energy segment. This growth equals rapid career advancement opportunities for those who want to be challenged and enjoy a fast-paced, high-performance culture.

As the eLearning Developer you are responsible for preparing interactive and eLearning based curriculum using development software and tools.  The person in this role will interact with Instructional Designers, subject matter experts, and the department leadership team. This role also serves as a back-up to the Corporate Training Coordinator with Learning Management System administration and help desk support as needed.  The individual filling this role will be proficient in authoring tools and other technologies, including use of virtual meeting platforms, audio production, image editing, and basic video production.  Should possess an ability to creatively visualize learning content.

Responsibilities

• Participate in meetings with internal clients and instructional designers to identify development needs to support training; assist internal customers in understanding inherent capabilities of system and software.
• Demonstrate proficiency using a variety of development tools designed for audio production, authoring, animation, illustration, and print layout.
• Generate and organize SCORM-conformant courseware packages.
• Maintain development project schedules and timelines.
• Concurrently work on multiple projects with different timelines.
• Organize and maintain e-learning catalogs, grouping structures and all content in both production and development LMS platforms to ensure order and consistency.
• Organize and maintain curriculum development files on the department’s network drive to ensure order and consistency.
• Create, implement and follow thorough testing and validation procedures using standard work documentation prior to course publication.
• Write and maintain procedural documents for development and organize appropriately for quality audit.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Bachelor’s Degree OR equivalent experience
• 2 years of experience preparing online training courses and support materials using Captivate or similar software, configuring and managing a learning management system to deliver and track e-learning workflow
• Proficiency in multiple development tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Flash, HTML5, PowerPoint, and InDesign.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Instructional Design, Education, Graphic or Web Design
• Experience using authoring tools and other technologies, including use of virtual meeting platforms, audio production, image editing, and basic video production.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to creatively visualize learning content;
• Ability to create and follow department workflow and/or procedure documents to create courseware per department standards;
• Ability to handle multiple projects and adhere to deadlines and project plans effectively;
• Excellent detail-orientation and organizational skills;
• Ability to remain updated on e-learning design and technologies;
• Ability to learn new software quickly.

Physical demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls.  The employee is regularly required to stand and walk.  On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders.  The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job include are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

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Assistant Director - Learning Experience

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

At Northwestern Mutual, we help our clients realize the promise of financial security and deliver comprehensive planning, insurance and investments through a trusted advisor and engaging technology.

Investment Products and Services helps our clients grow their wealth. In other words, IPS completes the promise we’ve made to our clients. By bringing investments and insurance together into one comprehensive plan, we help our clients strive toward their complete financial picture.

The Assistant Director Learning Experience will drive the planning and execution of design and development of learning and performance solutions for home office employees and/or members of the field force that drive business outcomes and employee growth. This role also leads a team.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Advocate for and prioritize learning solutions that deliver business outcomes that can be rapidly developed and deployed while still maintaining quality standards and learner experience; scrutinize existing solutions to ensure learning addresses evolving needs
• Analyze complex organizational issues and skill gaps when conducting root cause analysis of performance problems; connect learning solutions to business strategy and needs
• Connect and collaborate with senior learning and business partners, translating L&D-specific terms to business relevant language
• Understand and design against target learner role context and daily workflow; Prototype and test sophisticated learning solutions and incorporate learning feedback before launch. Provide mentorship to team members.
• Engage in cross-role and cross-functional relationships with senior leaders to gain insight into both standards and innovation
• Develop, implement, lead and/or design the most sophisticated learning programs and/or curriculum applying a verity of methodologies and platforms to meet specific needs. Provide mentorship to team members.
• Assess and define learning needs and partner with internal and external resources to develop solutions to meet those needs.
• Coordinate and develop metrics to measure the efficiency of programs and communications
• Write and review the most sophisticated instructional content to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and consistency with other L&D programs.
• Develops effective instructional design strategies that focus on different ways to deliver and deploy learning to ensure completion of goals and learning objectives.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in instructional design, adult education, organizational development, communications or related field.
• 8 years of instructional design, development and evaluation experience, with proven knowledge of principles, practices and procedures of instructional design.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel as well as Adobe Creative
• Experience with Vyond, Articulate 360 - Storyline and Rise, Snaglt and Vengage desired

This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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Lead Learning Solutions Partner

Developing people for meaningful careers is at the heart of what we do at Goodwill SEW! The Lead Learning Solutions Partner is key to building the learning experiences, programs, and tools that grow our 5,000+ employees, develop our 250+ leaders, and support our mission. A great candidate is a L&D professional who is highly skilled in partnering with business leadership to identify solutions for both internal and external use, from initial needs assessment through to solution design, facilitation, evaluation, and sustainment planning. Key skills include web-based and in-person facilitation, setting measurable learning outcomes, and adapting learning experiences to meet those measures. This role will team up with an internal learning designer and subject matter experts, plus have access to really cool best practice tools, certifications, and content!

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PRINCIPAL DUTIES:

1. Leading and Developing Talent: May partner with coworkers to advance their development.
2. Project and Change Management: May serve as a team member, or subject matter expert, for formal or department projects. Contributes ideas and helps develop solutions, while balancing demands of project work and routine job responsibilities. Engages effectively in change affecting her/him, communicating appropriately with supervisor. Follows through on learning, skill building, and practice necessary to adapt to change.
3. Problem Solving:  Light supervision; works independently.  Periodic review of work by manager or direct customer.  Researches, analyzes, and evaluates situations and reports on findings. Solves advanced problems.
4. Technical Skill:  Advanced knowledge of professional principles and skills.  Comprehensive knowledge of principles, practices and procedures of particular field of specialization.
5. Community Engagement: Champions Goodwill’s community engagement initiatives. Aware of Goodwill’s community partner organizational and participates in volunteer opportunities as pertains to role and interest. Participates in industry/knowledge groups.
6. Leads the development and implementation of customized learning solutions that increase organizational capacity and learning agility, including, but not limited to leadership development, team development, and career development solutions.
7. Serves as an internal consultant by partnering with leaders and subject matter experts to identify learning solutions that drive successful outcomes and support business initiatives and programs. Responsible for managing solution design, sourcing, development, implementation, reinforcement, and evaluation.
8. Facilitates learning and development programs and solutions in a variety of settings: in person classroom, virtual classroom, one-on-one, and via recorded trainings. Skilled at coaching others to improved facilitation and learner outcomes.
9. Establishes learning solution evaluation with key success metrics, ROI, and alignment with organizational goals and business initiatives. Analyzes and interprets information from various data sources and best practice research; uses information to recommend solutions to continually enhance learning.
10. Updates and manages existing programs by applying new delivery methodologies, learning trends and solutions that maintain the quality of the training program or learning initiative.
11. Responsible for completing other duties/responsibilities as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Two years of college education or experience equivalency, and a minimum of 5 years’ experience.
2. Requires skills in consultation and coaching using competency framework, public speaking, adult education, group facilitation, analysis and creativity.  Experience in full cycle design of a talent management program or process, to include: project coordination, analysis, development, design, implementation, and evaluation.  Proven ability to collaborate with HR and organization leadership teams to effectively support the organization’s strategy. Ability to positively influence at all levels of the organization.
3. Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Sharepoint, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, Teams).
4. Proficiency with one or more of the following strongly desired: Articulate Storyline, and Adobe Creative (Acrobat Pro, Audition, Captivate, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premier Pro).
5. Ability to travel to satellite (including Wisconsin and Illinois) locations to provide consultation, facilitation and to support special projects.

CORE CULTURAL COMPETENCIES:

1. Customer Focus: Independently anticipate and meet customer needs, while searching for ways to improve customer service.  Internalize customer feedback, and follow up with customer to ensure problems are solved by providing innovative ideas to meet their future needs.
2. Values Differences:  Seeks out the diverse perspectives and talents of others, striving to work effectively with others who have different perspectives, backgrounds or styles.  Behave with sensitivity towards differences in cultural norms, expectations, and ways of communicating.  Challenge stereotyping or offensive comments. 
3. Communicates Effectively: Shares information and updates with others, while ensuring a clear, concise and professional communication through reports, documentation, written and other communications.  Listens with interest to what others have to say.  
4. Situational Adaptability: Demonstrates flexibility of responses to different situations through adapting to the changing needs, conditions, priorities or opportunities.  Monitors how well an approach is working to see if a change is needed, recognizing cues that suggest a change in approach or behavior is needed.
5. Drives Results: Demonstrates a strong drive to achieve meaningful results, through driving tasks to successful completion and closure.  Sets high standards for own performance, showing determination in the face of obstacles and setbacks.
6. Ensures Accountability: Takes responsibility and ownership for successes and failures in own work.  Monitors progress of performance and changes approach accordingly, following through on commitments.

PHYSICAL/SENSORY DEMANDS:

Occasionally lifts and/or moves up to 20 pounds. Moves about to accomplish tasks. Remain stationary for extended periods of time. Repetitive use of hands and vision required while using computer keyboard and work with written and electronic information. Ability to hear and communicate to coach, counsel and train individuals. 

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