Position Title
Description
Total Experience: 5-8 years
Relevant Experience: 5-8 years
Skills Evaluation:
- Skills Test: Reading Comprehension, Chunking and Structuring, Content Writing, Storyboarding, Visualization Design Documents, Reviewing, Client Interaction (Production), Scoping and Estimation
- Interview: Communication, Articulation, Articulate Storyline, Articulate Rise, HTML5, Custom WBTs, ILTs and VILTs/VCTs, Production Team Coordination, Client Interaction (Production), Scoping and Estimation, Proposal Writing.
Skills:
Content Research and Structuring
- Ability to read and review content across various disciplines
- Expertise in using web search techniques and finding the right information.
- Ability to review large quantities of content quickly using skim/scan techniques
- Ability to spot patterns in content and structure/sequence in a logical manner
Review and Enhancement
- Highly proficient at reviewing content, instructional design and graphic design assets, and developed courses across various disciplines
- Collaborate with team members to improve file quality and meet learner needs.
- Ability to ideate new approaches to content treatment while reviewing.
- Ability to propose visualization strategies and collaborate with GDs for appropriate visual representation when needed.
- Eye for detail to spot missing content, typos and grammar errors, project guideline adherence, and consistency in design
- Ability to work with client standards and implement them consistently
Language and Grammar
- Thorough grasp of the English language with advanced level vocabulary and grammar
- Reading comprehension skills applicable across different types of topics and domains
- Ability to write error-free copy at various levels of English complexity
- Ability to write to standards and specifications including geographical and cultural considerations and client-specific jargon and formatting
- Ability to condense information and summarize in a succinct format without losing the original meaning
Communication and Coordination
- Fluent and relatively unaccented verbal communication skills in English
- Ability to understand accents across geographies and communicate with client teams in a coherent manner
- Maturity to understand process and situation and respond appropriately to client questions
- Ability to simplify language and clarify content to graphics and programming teams
Process and Technology
- Attention to detail and compliance with standards and checklists for all deliverables
- Openness to learn new processes and technology as required for new clients
- Ability to work with various cross-functional teams in a seamless manner, while keeping in mind corresponding templates and processes
Responsibilities
Research and chunk content across various domains, including university/college education, software and process training for industries like retail, financial, manufacturing, and service; soft skills training for various levels of employees. (5-7 years)
Structure and create course outlines in line with learning objectives, with content classification from provided source content or researched content. (3-4 years)
Review and enhance course outlines, high and low design documents, scripts, storyboards, course output, and media files across various domains, industries, and learning formats; implement client standards, follow checklists, build efficiencies in review process (2-3 years).
Write and design content for various formats of training, including (5-7 years):
- SMART learning objectives
- Structured content for training, in line with learning objectives
- Creative content that connects to user demographics
- Video/animation scripts
- Stories and scenarios for classroom training and e-learning
- Dialogues for case studiesxl
- Web-friendly text for interactive screens
- Questions and feedback for different formats of assessments
- Instructions to graphics and programming team on using visual and interactive strategies for representing content
Communicate and coordinate with the following teams and provide them with relevant inputs:
- Project Managers: Provide task time estimates and task status; communicate need for resources/infrastructure, create and update project guidelines.
- Practice Managers: Communicate need for support for team development and projects.
- Peers: Assist in content review and storyboarding tasks, provide peer reviews for language and quality checks
- Graphics and Programming Teams: Collaborate and brainstorm on visual and interactive strategies to represent content; clarify questions to explain storyboards; assist in reviews and quality control of developed products
- Client Stakeholders: Adopt consultative design approaches, engage in pre-sales interactions, ask questions to clarify content gaps, assist in walkthroughs of deliverables, provide design rationale when required to explain adopted instructional strategy.
Education and Certification:
- Any (Mass Communication / English Literature / Journalism / Psychology / Education/ Similar)
- Any formal training in writing or design would be a bonus
- Any experience and/or certification in instructional design is highly desired
- Knowledge of or experience with content authoring and/or web media creation tools is a bonus.