Instructional Systems Designer

Leidos is a Fortune 500™ company aimed at embracing and solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Through science and technology, Leidos makes the world safer, healthier and more efficient.

Our Civil Group offers an array of exciting career opportunities for the best IT, energy, logistics and engineering professionals.

The NISC IV program is hiring for an Instructional Systems Designer to support the Federal Aviation Administration. The position will be virtual and support an Agile Development team and application. . This position will serve as an experienced professional Instructional Systems Designer, responsible for planning, developing and possibly delivering training technical programs on the NISC III program. Duties may include analyzing training needs and developing programs to  address them; providing consultation and recommendations to customers on innovative training solutions, as well as on effective and relevant curriculum development and delivery for the FAA; creating asynchronous and synchronous instruction designed for a distributed learning environment; working with instructors, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), instructional technologists, and multimedia developers to analyze, design, develop, and evaluate distributed learning solutions; creating storyboards, scripts, scenario-based instruction, and other advanced learning strategies to meet the needs of the learners; providing expertise in the creation of processes, and implementation of distributed learning; performing the actual detailed development of course materials or courseware, as well as product testing, and maintenance. May also provide train-the-trainer programs and qualify trainers for content delivery.

Bachelors and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2+ years of prior relevant experience.  Demonstrated excellence in writing, editing, proofreading, and formatting of customer-ready materials. Previous experience collecting, compiling, analyzing and synthesizing learner/customer feedback, test data, and program evaluations to determine workforce performance needs, curriculum design/development and learning solutions. Ability to demonstrate an application of cognitive science and human factors engineering that apply to the design of training. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Project, MS Visio, and Adobe products.

Driven by our talented workforce, the Exploration and Mission Support Operation builds trust through the delivery of enduring solutions for our customers’ information technology and mission support needs. We enable the delivery of citizen services and the exploration of space and scientific advancement to benefit humankind.

Key Capabilities:

• Space Mission Operations
• NASA Human Health and Research
• Enterprise IT
• Civil Spacecraft Engineering and Operations
• Specialized Engineering Services
• Cyber/Cloud
• Supply Chain Management and Complex Logistics

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We value and support the well-being and mobility of our employees with competitive benefit packages, complementary e-learning training, work-life flexibility, an exciting External Referral Program, and a diverse, inclusive and ethical work place. In fact, in 2020, Leidos was ranked as one of the “World's Most Ethical Companies” by the Ethisphere Institute for the third consecutive year.