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    • October 4, 2018 11:05 PM BST
    • Urgent Hiring: Simulation Learning Designer - 28959

      Job Title: Simulation Learning Designer (Contract to hire)
      Contract: 6 months
      Work Location: New York, NY (Will consider Durham, NC)
      Job Description:
      The Simulation Learning Designer (SLD) serves as part curriculum designer, part business analyst, part content developer, and part production coordinator. The SLD brings together simulation design technology and subject-matter expert content to create a Virtual Patient Simulation (VPS) program. The SLD uses proprietary software and authoring tools to create VPSs, ensuring that simulations align with program learning objectives. As an SLD, you will have your hands in every part of the simulation design process, assisting the team of SLD’s throughout, along with coordinating video production and studio time with the multimedia team.
      The ideal candidate will be able to work collaboratively with the Simulation Learning Team, and multimedia team and should be able to show examples of
      • An enthusiastically inquiring mind
      • Solid verbal communications skills
      • Excellent writing skills
      • Ability to empathize with the intended learners (physicians, nurses, NP’s, PA’s, Pharmacists, etc.)
      • Self-driven and committed to excellence
      • Project-management skills
      Major Responsibilities
      • Develop Virtual Patient Simulations based on determined knowledge gaps and learning objectives
      • Demonstrate consulting skills when interacting with partners and subject matter experts, and other stakeholders
      • Determine appropriate VPS solutions based on the learning needs of the audience and grant
      • Coordinate video production across all simulations with the multimedia team
      • With little direction and minimal assistance from SMEs and Scientific Director, develop Virtual Patient Simulations
      • Liaise with the Project Manager to meet all deadlines and provide updates on progress
      • Manage concurrent projects, internal and external, and associated timelines and deliverables
      • Identify and develop new procedures and techniques to improve training and/ or operations effectiveness in performing tasks related to the workflow of creating a program
      • Represent with internal team members and / or external stakeholders
      Required Skills:
      • Exceptional organizational and project management skills
      • Function independently with general oversight and direction within parameters provided
      • Responsible for assignments that may have ambiguous requirements and be complex in nature, requiring independent judgment in resolving multifaceted issues or in making recommendations
      • Successfully demonstrate increasingly complex work
      • Willingness to be accountable for own work and successes and failures
      • Demonstrate leadership qualities, conflict resolution, and presentation skills
      • Able to research and analyze issues and communicate findings
      • Communication skills in visual, oral, and written forms and the ability to explain design and development decisions and recommendations to SMEs, team members and other stakeholders
      • Able to communicate and educate members of other functions in their area of expertise
      • Keep informed of the latest trends in instructional design, Medical Education, and CME
      • Preferred recent employment or experience in instructional design, adult learning theory, and multimedia communications
      Desired (not required) Skills:
      • Master’s degree in education/ instructional design and 5-8 years of related experience
      • Knowledge of CME and models of physician behavior change
      • Knowledge of simulations, serious games
      • Film / video production background
      • Background of working in or creating teaching materials for Medical, or other high-risk industries
      • Knowledge of The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) guidelines
      Education/Certifications:
      • Bachelor's degree in education/instructional design or equivalent experience and 2 years of related experience

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