Senior Learning Experience Designer, Internal

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The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
 

Grade: Professional 308

Pay Range: $73,000.00 - $109,400.00

Job Description

What You'll Do:

The Senior Learning Experience Designer, Internal delivers learning experiences that inspire and develop employees. This role partners with others in People Development and across the university to develop solutions that help achieve the mission and strategic goals. This role applies tested theories, practices and methods to their work creating deliverables that are inclusively designed, aligned to outcomes, effective, and efficient. This role supports the growth of others as they develop their design and technical skills.

Main Responsibilities Include:

• Works collaboratively and cross-functionally with business leaders and across departments to support operational and organizational initiatives through learning design that identifies the learning need, implements appropriate learning solution, and supports effective change management.

• Communicate ADDIE informed design process, present design solutions, cultivate consensus and collective decision-making to define project deliverables. 

• Creates project deliverables aligned to quality standards and learning outcomes, which may include job aids, scenario-based learning, eLearning or hybrid learning, assessments, and simulations. Deliverables, projects, or training needs may be more complex.

• Manages learning design projects by establishing project roles and timelines, facilitating project meetings and communication with stakeholders, identifying milestones, deliverables, and dependencies, mitigating project risks, and ensuring quality learning products are ready for project team review.

• Provides accurate time estimates for deliverables and effectively allocates time to achieving goals. Organizes and plans work on multiple projects every two weeks. Consults with leader on prioritization or time allocation when appropriate.

• Identifies and builds ways of measuring learning effectiveness (survey, pilot, learning time, assessment effectiveness); analyzes data sources; presents results and recommendations for improvements, and implement revisions.

• Coordinates a comprehensive curriculum review process through data analysis, recommendations for strategic improvements, and implementing revisions to learning materials, including deeper patterns of analysis, solutioning, and task delegation.

• Conducts reviews to ensure learning experiences meet standards of quality; provides support as needed to others.

• Tailor project management strategies to client and working with more complex clients and projects independently.

• Performs job analysis using interviews with stakeholders, subject matter experts, and job descriptions. Develops comprehensive understanding of a role including measures of success, skills, behaviors, and knowledge necessary to perform. Creates a map of critical behaviors and learning objectives for role specific learning curricula. Uses the map to identify existing content and propose new development that aligns to the role.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities You'll Need to Be Successful:

• Strategic utilization and adaptation of design theories and best practices to support achievement of adult learning outcomes: competency-based educational strategies, instructional design, assessment methodolo