[Hiring] Learning Consultant @SweetRush

Role Description

Our client, a large consulting company, is looking for a partner to design an adaptive assessment so that learners can skip training they don't need. For example, a learner with certain knowledge or skills might spend about 2 hours on a program that would otherwise take 8 hours.

We are looking for a Learning Consultant to guide this high-level engagement. The successful candidate will lead the discovery and design work with our client's senior Learning & Development leaders and line-of-business leaders. You will create a Solution Blueprint that the client will then use to create the learning solution.

Location: Chicago, IL metropolitan area (United States). Mostly work from home, with some travel to the Chicago-based client.

Engagement type: 1099 Freelance

Duration: 12 weeks, expected to start in November 2026

Hours: Typically 20–30 hours per week, but will vary. Some weeks could be zero hours, with busier weeks when traveling.

What You'll Do

• Lead and facilitate working sessions, on-site and virtual, with senior L&D leaders and line-of-business professionals.
• Hold the room with senior and C-suite stakeholders: steer toward decisions, push back with credibility, and keep scope from drifting.
• Translate findings into the assessment strategy, personalized learning pathways, and implementation roadmap.
• Own the Solution Blueprint and co-author the build specification with the Psychometrician and the client's build team.
• Work with the Psychometrician to map the assessment and content and to design the learning journeys.
• Collaborate with SweetRush's Solution Architect and, possibly, a Creative Director.
• Deliver a blueprint that will define the assessment strategy, personalized learning pathways, technology requirements, and implementation roadmap, with Psychometrician review to support assessment validity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in instructional design or learning strategy, with clear ownership of discovery, design thinking, or leading facilitated workshops.
• Strong instructional and learning experience design skills.
• Strong facilitation skills and executive presence.
• Experience designing assessments that measure performance, not just recall, using scenarios, simulations, and judgment-based items.
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to produce blueprints and specs a build team can use.
• Credibility with executives: you can hold the room, ask the questions that get the information you need, and push back constructively.
• A collaborative approach with learning, assessment, and technical teams.

Requirements

• Nice to have: Working knowledge of assurance or accounting professional learning, such as CPE rules, NASBA, mandatory training, and competency frameworks.
• Experience with adaptive learning, test-out or competency-based programs, or skills taxonomies.
• Experience working with a Psychometrician.
• Comfort with AI in learning.
• A CPA background, or prior work with large consulting firms.

Benefits

• Hourly Rate: Negotiable.

Call to Action

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