[Hiring] Senior Instructional Design Lead / Curriculum Modernization Consultant @Axyde Analytics

Role Description

Axyde Analytics, LLC seeks an experienced instructional-design consultant for a focused initial assignment supporting our response to the USPTO Patent Examiner Training Program modernization RFI (ACQ-26-9999). This is an Axyde consulting opportunity, not a Government appointment or an awarded delivery position.

Initial Assignment

• Review our approach to assessing and revising a 125-course technical/legal training curriculum.
• Recommend a practical course-inventory, learning-objective, SME-review and quality-assurance process.
• Provide a concise, accurately attributed account of your relevant curriculum-modernization experience and discuss a potential delivery role.
• Initial planning estimate: approximately 4–8 hours, with scope and fee agreed in writing before work. Additional work is separately agreed.

Qualifications

• Documented personal responsibility for revising one curriculum containing MORE THAN 40 COURSES.
• Experience across many unrelated small projects does not by itself meet this requirement.
• Preferred experience with technical, legal, regulatory or intellectual-property audiences.
• Experience should demonstrate instructional design, adult learning, coordination with subject-matter experts, curriculum mapping, assessment design and implementation planning.
• Independent consultants and specialists working through a firm are welcome.

Requirements

• Include with your application:
• Résumé or CV and a brief description of the qualifying project.
• Employer or contracting organization, client, project dates, number of distinct courses within that single curriculum, and your personal responsibilities.
• Nature of the revisions, deliverables, learner scale and results you can substantiate.
• A professional reference who can verify your role; indicate whether we may contact them.
• Releasable work samples or a redacted example, if available. Identify ownership and your permission to share; do not submit confidential client materials.
• Near-term availability, proposed hourly rate or fixed fee, and interest in potential follow-on delivery.

Engagement and Timing

• The initial review can be performed remotely; Midlothian, Virginia is Axyde’s administrative base.
• Prompt applications are encouraged because the RFI response is due September 30, 2026 at 1 p.m. Eastern.
• This is an estimated short consulting assignment, not full-time employment or guaranteed hours.
• Any selected consulting work is paid under mutually agreed written terms.
• Potential follow-on work depends on procurement, award, funding, scope and mutual agreement; travel or onsite work would be agreed separately.
• An application does not authorize use of your name, résumé, client references or employer’s project history in a Government response.
• Axyde will obtain specific permission and accurately identify the organization and role responsible for any cited experience.