Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robert Half is a staffing firm seeking an Instructional Designer for an 8-month contract. The role involves developing training strategies, conducting needs analyses, creating curriculum content, and managing training logistics to support organizational change.
Responsibilities
- Develops the training strategy aligned to the overall OCM strategy
- Partners with IT Business Sponsors and IT Training Project Manager to Identify the audiences, skills, and behaviors needed for adoption
- Partners with the OCM lead to ensure training is part of the overall change plan
- Defines the scope of training including what requires formal training vs. job aids vs. quick reference guides
- Identifies what people need to learn to adopt the change
- Analyzes:
- Roles and personas
- New processes being adopted
- Required knowledge, skills, or system competencies
- Determines the training method: instructor-led, eLearning, workshops, simulations, etc
- Partners with SMEs and system teams to build:
- Training decks
- System simulations
- ELearning modules
- Job aids, quick reference guides, playbooks
- Ensures materials are accurate, consistent, and aligned with process documentation and reviewed with IT Business Sponsors and IT Training Project Manager
- Coordinates training, schedules sessions, locations, and virtual setups
- Ensures trainers are prepared with:
- Facilitator guides
- Exercises or lab environments
- Manages enrollment tracking and completion
- Works with OCM leads to understand:
- Who is impacted
- How deeply they're impacted
- Aligns training to role-based impacts
- Communicates training expectations clearly to leaders and participants
- Reinforces the why behind the change during training sessions
- Helps ensure training supports behavior change-not just technical skills
- Creates knowledge checks, quizzes, or tests
- Measures training effectiveness through:
- Pre/post assessments
- Feedback surveys
- Participant confidence indicators
- Uses results to address gaps before go-live
- Helps design hyper-care training for post go-live support
- Coordinates floor support, office hours, or guided practice sessions
- Provides refresher training for teams needing extra support
- Ensures training materials are handed off for long-term use
- Helps create ongoing onboarding materials for new hires
- Ensures updates are incorporated as processes evolve
Skills
- Planview Portfolio
- Experience delivering training for enterprise applications, portfolio management tools, project management platforms, or technology transformation programs
- Strong instructional design facilitation and communication skills
- Ability to translate technical concepts into accessible role-appropriate learning materials
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including PMOs, IT, and operational leadership
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced evolving program environments
- Change Agility Mindset Adaptability
- Helps learners embrace new processes
- Analytical Thinking
- Uses assessments and data to improve training
- Problem Solving
- Quickly addresses confusion, environment issues, or content gaps
- Bachelor's degree or higher and a minimum of 3 years instructional design, web design experience, or responsibilities that involve performance improvement initiatives
- A minimum of 6 years instructional design, web design experience, or responsibilities that involve performance improvement initiatives
- AI-Clip Champ Experience
Benefits
- Benefits available to contract/temporary professionals, include medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance.
- Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan.
Company Overview
Robert Half provides staffing, recruiting, finance, and accounting services. It was founded in 1948, and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Hessen, DEU, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.roberthalf.de.