Description:
This position is responsible for the design of individual learning items and blended learning programs. The instructional designer will be aligned primarily to a particular service line, All EY, or function portfolio. The instructional designer will work to agreed design quality standards and processes, using approved templates and tools and will collaborate with other designers and learning professionals to support the continuous improvement of design and development speed, efficiency and quality. In addition, the designer will develop and maintain strong relationships with content owners, SMRs, learning and performance consultants, developers, deployment teams and vendors.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Follow EY’s evidence-based learning design processes to define and design individual learning items and programs on time, to budget and quality standards
- Conduct skill needs and task analyses
- Plan and document learning solutions and gain approvals from design leaders, learning and performance consultants and content owners; identify existing materials that can be curated and integrated into the learning journey
- Write performance objectives that meet EY quality standards
- Write design specifications using standard templates to ensure alignment of objectives with assessments, practice, presentation, overviews, integration and motivation elements; write specifications for configuring effective collaborative learning instances
- Conduct quality assurance checks with SMRs, technical reviewers, CPE approvers and deployment teams;utilize their feedback to revise design documents
- Write innovative eLearning pages and storyboards, audio/video scripts, facilitator and participant guides, job aids and other materials; test prototype products with sample audiences
- Write engaging instructional materials including assessments and quizzes, practice exercises with appropriate feedback, simulations, demonstrations, case studies, worked examples, procedural steps, descriptions of concepts/processes/principles, opportunities for reflection and self-explanation, overviews
- Conduct design quality reviews on new and existing learning solutions using the EY Design Quality Checklist
- Ensure quality of learning content and proof read learning materials to ensure consistency (e.g. ensure references between leader guides and participant materials add-up, checking formatting, confirming timings in leader guides etc.)
- Draft deployment plans and consult with regional deployment teams to revise the learning design as necessary
- Collaborate closely with developers to ensure finished materials are authored as specified
- Assist in pilots and make appropriate revisions to learning materials based on pilot results
- Share instructional design best practices with other members of the design team in the spirit of continuous improvement