Instructional Designer

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LOCATION: Instructional Designers work onsite at an Abbott location, primarily Abbott Park, North Chicago.

Below is a sample job description for the contract job opportunity at Abbott:

Overview

As an Instructional Designer, you will use instructional design principles and processes to support Abbott’s Vascular business’s internal and external learning programs.

Responsibilities

• Creating engaging learning activities and compelling course content.
• Working with subject matter experts to identify learner training needs and content.
• Creating and maintaining a library of clinical case examples from video and presentation materials.
• Setting instructional end goals and creating content that matches them.
• Visualizing and creating instructional graphics, the user interface, and the finished product.
• Analyzing and applying trends and best practices in learning technologies and instructional design.
• Creating exercises and activities that enhance the learning process.
• Creating supporting material/media (audio, video, simulations, games etc.).
• Devising modes of assessment, such as tests or quizzes, to measure the effectiveness of the course.
• Maintaining project documentation and course folders.
• Documenting standards and development process including testing and quality assurance.
• Supporting and maintaining Professional Education curricula.
  
  

KEY ACCOUNTABILITES



Instructional Design

• Design digital learning solutions to support classroom and virtual learning.
• Apply instructional design and learning principles to existing content considering context, purpose, and audience.
• Consider adaptable design of highly technical material for use on-demand, in classroom, and in hospital.
  
  

Develop

• Develop and produce education materials using iSpring Suite, PowerPoint, and Articulate Rise.
• Reference and cite resources including scientific publications.
• Prepare materials for formal internal routing in a document control system.
• Edit images, audio, and video using Adobe Creative Suite.
• Produce assessments and exams to be distributed in an LMS for live and on-demand environments (iSpring Quizmaker).
• Publish and test SCORM files in an iSpring Learn LMS; familiarity with Brainshark is also helpful.
• Manage content settings and availability within an iSpring Learn LMS.
  
  

Support & Maintain

• Document deliverable progress and estimate completions within a project management worksheet.
• Manage system architecture of curricula, content, and users (people assignments).
• Support ongoing curricula cohort enrollments and assignments.
• Provide ongoing LMS reporting (custom when needed).
• Potential to contribute to the design and structure of expanded LMS use.
  
  

Qualifications

• Established instructional design training, skills, and samples of previous projects required.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, preferably medical device, or healthcare.
• Strong interpersonal skills; written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated, self-directed, and self-learner; comfortable with prioritizing, establishing objectives and processes, and working to achieve them.
• Highly organized, capable of managing project status on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective, collaborative working relationships.
  
  

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines.

Working together, Abbott and Talent Solutions partner to deliver top talent for contingent roles at Abbott, building better and healthier lives. Abbott believes all employees are essential to creating life-changing breakthroughs, performing key duties to create life-changing breakthroughs.