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AlphaGov

Instructional Designer - Community Workforce

🇺🇸 Remote - US 🕑 Contractor 💰 TBD 💻 Instructional Design 🗓️ October 11th, 2026
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AlphaGov is hiring an Instructional Designer - Community Workforce to develop training curricula and materials for adult learners in collaboration with cities, counties, workforce boards, and community colleges. The role involves conducting needs analyses, designing accessible e-learning and instructional content aligned with industry standards, and evaluating learner progress while working as a project-based consultant.

Highlights
  • Conduct needs and task analyses with employers, instructors, and program staff to define learning outcomes
  • Design curricula, lesson plans, facilitator guides, and learner materials for various delivery modes
  • Create accessible e-learning modules and job aids tailored to adult learners with varying skill levels
  • Align training content with industry credentials, apprenticeship standards, and career pathways
  • Develop assessments and evaluation plans to measure learner progress and program effectiveness
  • Pilot training materials and revise based on participant and instructor feedback
  • Provide past-performance narratives and authorize naming on proposals as a subject matter expert
  • Required experience with adult training design models such as ADDIE or SAM and knowledge of Section 508/WCAG accessibility standards
  • Preferably experienced with community colleges, workforce boards, WIOA programs, and e-learning software like Articulate 360 or Adobe Captivate
  • Work as a 1099 project-based consultant in a remote-first environment with occasional client travel

Instructional Designer - Community Workforce Full Description

Instructional Designer - Community Workforce

Remote
AlphaGov
ContractGV123
United States

Description

AlphaGov delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel. When you authorize it, AlphaGov may name you as an expert collaborator or key personnel on proposals that match your expertise. We build ready teams for live pursuits — not speculative staffing banks.

AlphaGov is engaging an Instructional Designer for current community workforce training work with cities, counties, workforce boards, and community colleges. You will turn job requirements and partner input into training that adult learners finish and employers recognize.

We confirm scope, schedule, and fee with you before any engagement begins.

What you'll do

  • Run needs and task analyses with employers, instructors, and program staff to define learning outcomes
  • Design curricula, lesson plans, facilitator guides, and learner materials for in-person, virtual, and blended delivery
  • Build accessible e-learning modules and job aids for adult learners with varied literacy, language, and digital skills
  • Align content to industry credentials, apprenticeship standards, and career pathways
  • Develop assessments, completion measures, and evaluation plans that show learner progress
  • Pilot materials with instructors and participants, then revise based on feedback and results
  • Contribute qualifications and past-performance narrative to AlphaGov proposals when you authorize naming

Requirements

Required

  • Demonstrated experience designing adult or workforce training curricula using ADDIE, SAM, or a comparable model
  • Experience writing facilitator guides, learner materials, and assessments for adult learners
  • Working knowledge of accessibility (Section 508 / WCAG) and plain-language design
  • Comfortable as a 1099 project-based consultant, remote-first with occasional client travel

Nice to have

  • Experience with community colleges, workforce boards, WIOA programs, or pre-apprenticeship training
  • Proficiency with Articulate 360, Adobe Captivate, or a learning management system
  • Bilingual (English/Spanish) content development