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Akron Children's

Instructional Design and Development Specialist

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Akron, OH

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Learning & Development

🗓️ July 10th, 2025

LMS Sigma Six Sigma

Edtech.com's Summary

Akron's Children is hiring an Instructional Design and Development Specialist to support the Learning Management System and ensure high-quality, innovative education standards. This role collaborates with subject matter experts to identify training needs and develop effective content formats to meet instructional goals.

Highlights
  • Participate in maintaining quality and consistency in training standards and technology use.
  • Design and deliver multimedia training to hospital staff and provide LMS training and orientation.
  • Utilize quality metrics and LMS data to evaluate training success and program accuracy.
  • Maintain project documentation and recommend best practices and instructional technologies.
  • Collaborate with clinical and business departments to improve LMS utilization.
  • Manage training records, ensure data integrity, and generate compliance reports using the Children's LMS.
  • Required skills include LMS software proficiency, MS Office skills, and experience developing and evaluating training programs.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience in adult learning principles, healthcare, and certifications in Instructional Design and Lean Six Sigma.
  • Educational requirement: Bachelor's Degree; 3 to 5 years of relevant experience preferred.
  • Position is full-time with a fixed hybrid work arrangement requiring on-site days initially more frequent and reducing after six months.

Instructional Design and Development Specialist Full Description

Instructional Design and Development Specialist

Location: Akron, Ohio
Category: HR

Job Description
This is a hybrid position requiring on-site work 12 days per month during the first six months of employment. After that, the requirement shifts to 6 on-site workdays per month; however, based on business needs, additional on-site presence may be required. 

Summary:
The Instructional Design & Development Specialist supports the strategies and tactics for the organization related to the Learning Management System, standards in design and workflow to ensure high quality and innovative education. The Instructional Design & Development Specialist partners with subject matter experts to identify the target audience's training needs and develops content presentation formats that facilitate instructional education goals.

Responsibilities:
1. Actively participates on the Instructional Design and Development team on quality and consistency of training standards, design and use of technology.
2. Designs and delivers training to hospital staff effectively using multimedia; provides training on the functions of the LMS and assists with the orientation of new staff.
3. Uses quality metrics to ensure training success and accuracy of programs. Conducts evaluation research and analysis using LMS.
4. Provides and seeks peer feedback from the instructional design point-of-view for developed education.
5. Maintains project documentation, and reporting and makes recommendations on educational best practices, instructional resources, instructional technologies, and multimedia hardware/software to support teaching and learning.
6. Collaborates with clinical and business departments throughout the organization to continue to improve utilization of LMS.
7. Manage training records using Children's learning management system, including data entry, report generation and data integrity review to support understanding and use of the system; produces reports for the department showing employees who are approaching noncompliance or who are currently noncompliant, as well as no-shows for courses offered.
8. Other duties as required.

Other information:
Technical Expertise
1. Experience in developing, presenting, and evaluating online and/or classroom training programs is required.
2. Experience in adult learning principles is preferred.
3. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
4. Self-motivated, highly organized, and detail-minded with strong commitment to accuracy.
5. Experience in healthcare is preferred.
6. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required. LMS software is required.

Education and Experience
1. Education: Bachelor's Degree
2. Certification: Instructional Design Certification is preferred. Lean Six Sigma is preferred.
3. Years of relevant experience: 3 to 5 years is preferred.
4. Years of experience supervising: None.

Full Time
FTE: 1.000000
Status: Fixed Hybrid