INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN SPECIALIST
Job Description
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN SPECIALIST
The Management Institute for National Development (MIND) is the Government of Jamaica’s learning, leadership and organizational development institute, with the mandate “to provide effective leadership development and management training appropriate to all levels, and in line with the demands of a modern and competitive public service”. MIND offers an exclusive focus on programmes, courses, outreach and supporting services that are strategically designed to enhance the professionalism and performance quality of the public sector, to deliver high-quality services efficiently and effectively to all stakeholders.
Applications are invited to fill the following vacancy
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN SPECIALIST
The incumbent will be responsible for:
- Guiding the Agency’s curriculum and instructional design process in support of the delivery of multi-modal learning products and services
- Developing instructionally sound training materials/courseware in keeping with the needs of MIND’s clients, customers and programme direction
- Reviewing and updating the Agency’s learning products
The successful candidate should possess the following competencies:
- Knowledge of Curriculum Development, Learning Facilitation and Assessment methodologies
- Expertise in Multi-Modal Instructional Design concepts and principles
- Excellent knowledge of Learning Systems
- Knowledge of Competency-Based Education and Training
- Ability to apply instructional design concepts and learning theory to the development of adult learning products
- Strong writing, editing and proofreading skills
Minimum Qualification and Experience:
- Postgraduate Degree in Instructional Design, Education or a related area
- Certification in Education or Training
- Experience in curriculum development, instructional design and training delivery
- Three (3) years’ experience developing content with an educational/training purpose for publication, web-based delivery, and or classroom use.
- Be involved in every step of the product design cycle from discovery to developer handoff and user acceptance testing.
- Work with BAs, product managers and tech teams to lead the Product Design
- Maintain quality of the design process and ensure that when designs are translated into code they accurately reflect the design specifications.
- Accurately estimate design tickets during planning sessions.
- Contribute to sketching sessions involving non-designersCreate, iterate and maintain UI deliverables including sketch files, style guides, high fidelity prototypes, micro interaction specifications and pattern libraries.
- Ensure design choices are data led by identifying assumptions to test each sprint, and work with the analysts in your team to plan moderated usability test sessions.
- Design pixel perfect responsive UI’s and understand that adopting common interface patterns is better for UX than reinventing the wheel
- Present your work to the wider business at Show & Tell sessions.
Skill & Experience
- You have at least 3 years’ experience working as a Product Designer.
- You have experience using Sketch and InVision or Framer X
- You have some previous experience working in an agile environment – Think two-week sprints.
- You are familiar using Jira and Confluence in your workflow
