Learning Solution Development Specialist

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Design Services is a team under the Service Delivery vertical of Corporate Learning.
The team’s purpose: We amplify and accelerate innovative learning design to engage and inspire learners in developing their capabilities.
 

The team’s vision: To continually progress best-in-class learning design and development by:
• Creating, experimenting, and delivering tools and innovations that increase learner engagement and impact.
• Connecting with client-facing teams to ensure skill development is relevant and meets learners’ needs.
• Collaborating with internal teams to bring new ideas to our clients and exceptional experiences to our learners.

Learning Solution Development Specialist, Design Services

As an LSDS you will engage in designing, curating, and creating customized learning solutions for Corporate Learning clients with a learner-centric approach, anchored in HBP’s thought leadership and design principles. The role entails elements of individual work guided by accountability, teamwork supported by collaboration, and cross-functional strategic innovations. You will work closely with Principal Learning Partners (PLPs), Solution Architects, and other client team members to define solution development requirements for both blended and digital learning experiences. This will entail coordination across internal and external stakeholders to create designs and experiences tightly aligned to the client’s needs.

Some of your Daily Tasks:
Individual:
• Curating content across Harvard Business Publishing’s resources to support detailed designs of cohort-based learning experiences.
• Crafting short activities and reflection segments based on learning assets from HBP’s ecosystem to integrate applicability within solution designs.
• Creating learner tools and templates that support solution design- example discussion guides, reflection tools, learning circle templates etc.
• Designing learning pathways, sprints, and other digital collections of content for client engagement.
• Supporting Curation workshop with clients
• Doing need identification on digital solutions with clients or internal teams
• Creating live session decks for digital solutions with rich engagement and interaction built-in with the platform/technological amenities.
 

Team (Design Servies):
• Creating and updating content repositories based on themes and topics to ensure the content is current and relevant for Corporate Learning.
• Capture designs, exercises, and activities created within the content management system to leverage them for reuse across projects and increase project profitability, solution innovation, and faster development times.
• Work on building efficiencies on how designs can be made scalable and repeatable across teams.
• Upgrade and maintain 3 D guides.

Collaborations (Corporate Learning):
• Team up with PLPs and Learning Solution Architects for the creation of custom application exercises and other instructional design-related activities to enhance client solutions.
• Work to execute products and services created by the Strategy Enablement team
• Share new resources and ideas to increase client engagement through content or live sessions with project teams.
• Work with Learning Solution Architects to support the creation of reference designs and content collections that help drive innovation and new offerings within Corporate Learning.

What you'll do
• Create and curate content based on client needs to deliver excellence.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to work across units to cater to client needs.
• Explore and design new avenues of growth and identify innovation opportunities.
What you’ll bring
Skills:
• Knowledge of Instructional Design models and adult learning theories
• Familiarity with Learning Experience Design and Learning Management Systems (e.g.: BrightSpace, Degreed, ArticulateRise, etc.)
• Learner-centric approach in designing and creating solutions for clients.
• Detail Orientation: Ability to copy edit and ensure work is of superior quality.

Soft skills required:
• Team player: Open to collaboration and constructive discussion
• Work ethic: High sense of accountability
• Innovation: Analytical thinker and strategic executioner

You’ll stand out if you have:

- Background in Behavioral sciences - Passion for creating cutting-edge learner solutions/components from HBP thought leadership

- Have Instructional design skills and knowledge of adult learning principles.