Instructional Designer - Sacramento, CA

As an Instructional Designer with Summit Funding, your primary responsibility is to engage, educate and empower employees to reach optimal performance through curriculum development. The Instructional Designer facilitates training needs for a multitude of departments at Summit Funding. This position is responsible for creating, developing and building instructor led training (ILT), e-learning curriculum, web-based curriculum and mobile learning.

Desired Skills and Experience

Top 3 Responsibilities and how you will be measured:

1) Design, create, and maintain, curriculum content, collaborating with all levels of the mortgage business.

• Measurement: Stakeholders will learn quickly and increase job performance.

2) Innovatively support initiatives through instructional design that drive the business.

• Measurement: The developer will creatively and successfully work with subject matter experts, stakeholders and fellow trainers to develop world class training.

3) Seek to improve process, performance and production using various learning modalities

• Measurement: The efficacy of these courses will be measured through the learner's engagement and ability to perform job skills based on metrics defined by the management team.

Essential Duties of the Position:

• Create a variety of scenario-based training for multiple jobs and levels within the company
• Design, develop, maintain, and test the curriculum content in conjunction with trainers
• Maintain and update curriculum as needed
• Collaborate with team members, subject matter experts, managers and directors for course development
• Work with marketing to develop mobile e-learning for sales agents and customers, as requested
• Build and deliver, as needed, ILT course material for all aspects of mortgage lending
• Share best practices with fellow trainers and curriculum designers
• Identify and manage outside resources needed to create training products
• Assist with internal training of employees, as needed.
• Coordinate with other members of the Development team
• Other duties as required

Job Requirements: 

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in instructional design, education, or related field required.
• 5+ years of experience as an instructional designer in large organizations.
• Experience in developing instructor led, on-line and mobile adult training courses
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, Photoshop (preferred), LMS, and SCORM practices
• Knowledge of HTML5 and CSS
• Experience with multiple e-Learning technology platforms
• Experience developing mobile applications
• Comprehensive knowledge of instructional theories and principles
• Technical aptitude and quick study
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong proof-reading skills
• Good computer and presentation skills
• Proven ability to meet deadlines
• Detail-oriented, thorough, organized, and systematic
• Team Player
• Project management skills.
• Learning management system (LMS) experience
• Mortgage banking experience helpful, but not mandatory
• Nice speaking voice to record narration.
• Ability to break down technical content into bite-sized, salient points for delivery.
• Quick Learner

Work Environment

• Standard office environment.
• Occasional travel.

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