Team Leader- Instructional Design

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Are you passionate about leading and inspiring a team to achieve excellence in instructional design? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can make a significant impact on training and development? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

We are looking for a dedicated and innovative Team Lead-Instructional Design to join our team in OCLD. In this role, you will provide leadership and direct supervision to our instructional design staff, helping them to meet the goals of our organization. You will act as an internal consultant, offering technical advice and consultation to customer groups and stakeholders, and play a crucial role in evaluating and addressing training needs.

Join us and be part of a team that is committed to promoting professional development, fostering effective relationships, and driving continuous improvement in our training programs.

The Team Lead-Instructional Design position will help Associates meet the goals of Premera Blue Cross by providing leadership and direct supervision to the instructional design staff, and partner closely with the Training and Procedures team.

What you will do:

• Act as an internal consultant, provide technical advice and consultation to customer groups and stakeholders by advising management on project operations and activities.
• Develop mechanism to evaluate training needs of clients to identify training desired; identifying target groups, testing evaluation mechanism with pilot groups to determine effectiveness and efficiency; and determining best method of delivering training.
• Provide day-to-day leadership to the technical training and curriculum development staff.
• Develop methods to routinely assess the effectiveness of the training staff and associated training programs on multiple campuses.
• Develop, identify gaps and negotiate solutions related to the quarterly training delivery schedules for all platforms on multiple campuses.
• Promote staff professional development and career growth.
• Build effective relationships within all levels of the organization.
• Successfully interface with members of our senior management team.
• Effectively and positively advocate the OCLD department's perspective at all timed.
• Ensure that training rooms are appropriately equipped.
• Draft annual training budget associated with technical training activities.
• Independently develop and administer performance improvement plans and activities.
• Consult with other departments to assess (non-routine) training needs.
• Promote teamwork at all times.
• Employ appropriate levels of flexibility, customer service, conflict resolution, problem solving, innovation and "big picture" thinking.
• Other duties as assigned.
• As part of this role, you may be assigned internal controls derived from Premera’s internal controls framework. You will be accountable for understanding the con