[Hiring] Senior Instructional Analyst/ISD III Lead @Oneida Professional Services

Role Description

Oneida Professional Services (OPS) is seeking for a motivated Senior Instructional Analyst/ ISD III Lead in Orlando, FL.

• Employment Status: Contingent upon contract award
• Location: Flexible contractor-site or authorized telework location, subject to individual task-order requirements
• Primary Customer Location: PM TRASYS, Orlando, Florida
• Travel: Periodic CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required

The position requires extensive experience applying instructional-systems design, adult-learning, performance-analysis, and training-evaluation principles to complex military or technical systems. The ISD III Lead must be capable of leading multiple analysts, interacting with senior Government stakeholders, and translating technical and operational information into defensible training recommendations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical lead for assigned training analysis and evaluation task orders.
• Develop the technical methodology, analytical framework, data-collection strategy, staffing approach, and execution plan for each assigned effort.
• Lead cognitive, needs, alternatives, gap, training-situation, job-task, training-system-requirements, learning-objective, media, fidelity, functionality, cost/trade-off, START, and training-effectiveness analyses and evaluations.
• Review system documentation, operational requirements, training materials, technical publications, doctrine, policies, and source data.
• Facilitate interviews, focus groups, working groups, workshops, observations, and data-collection sessions with operators, instructors, maintainers, engineers, program personnel, and other subject-matter experts.
• Assign work to ISD III and ISD II personnel and provide technical direction throughout the analysis lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain analytical standards, templates, style guides, traceability methods, and product-development procedures.
• Ensure that findings, conclusions, and recommendations are supported by collected evidence and linked to operational or training requirements.
• Analyze performance requirements, knowledge and skill gaps, job tasks, learning objectives, training conditions, media options, system fidelity, and training effectiveness.
• Coordinate with equipment and technical SMEs to validate operational, maintenance, safety, system, and procedural information.
• Integrate instructional, technical, human-performance, and operational information into clear findings and actionable recommendations.
• Review draft products for analytical sufficiency, consistency, instructional integrity, and compliance with the approved methodology.
• Resolve Government and stakeholder comments and document the disposition of review comments.
• Present technical findings, methodologies, risks, and recommendations during Government reviews and stakeholder briefings.
• Support the Program/Project Manager in developing labor-hour estimates, staffing plans, schedules, assumptions, and technical approaches for new task orders.
• Coordinate with the Quality Control Specialist to ensure deliverables comply with the PWS, task order, style guide, applicable standards, and delivery requirements.

Representative Deliverables:

• Analysis and evaluation plans
• Data-collection plans and instruments
• Interview and workshop materials
• Job-task and performance analyses
• Training-requirements analyses
• Learning-objective analyses
• Training-system and fidelity evaluations
• Training-effectiveness evaluation plans and reports
• Analysis findings and recommendation reports
• Requirements-traceability matrices
• Technical briefings and decision-support packages
• Comment-adjudication matrices
• ISD standards, templates, and style guides

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional systems, instructional design, education, curriculum development, psychology, human performance, training development, or a related discipline.
• Education and experience consistent with the work performed by the OPM Instructional Systems Series 1750 or Psychology Series 0180.
• At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in instructional-systems design, training analysis, curriculum development, human-performance analysis, or training evaluation.
• At least three years of experience leading instructional analysts, technical teams, or complex analysis projects.
• Demonstrated experience performing job-task, needs, gap, learning-objective, training-requirements, media, fidelity, or training-effectiveness analysis.
• Knowledge of ADDIE, adult-learning principles, systematic instructional design, performance-based training, and evaluation methodologies.
• Experience facilitating data-collection activities with technical SMEs, operators, instructors, maintainers, and Government stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to write, review, and defend complex technical-analysis findings and recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, analytical, technical-writing, briefing, and team-leadership skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any suitability determination, installation access, or security clearance required by an individual task order.

Requirements

• Ten or more years of instructional-systems design or training-analysis experience.
• Experience supporting Marine Corps or Department of Defense training programs, acquisition organizations, or training-system development.
• Familiarity with Marine Corps training-development processes, OPNAV Instruction 1500.76, NAVMC guidance, systems acquisition, human-systems integration, or training-system evaluation.
• Experience evaluating simulators, training devices, courseware, embedded training, virtual training, or other technology-enabled training systems.
• Graduate degree in instructional systems, education, psychology, human factors, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams and supporting CONUS or OCONUS data-collection activities.

Benefits

• 15 Days of Paid Time Off
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Medical, Dental, and Eye Insurance
• Employee Referral Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Wellness Program
• Multiple Voluntary Medical Benefits