Our client specializes in sales training for salespeople and managers in a variety of industries. They implement sales development programs, best practices, sales management skills, and programs to convert a service culture to a sales culture. They believe in helping their clients create a unique and positive buying experience for their customers. They are seeking a contract Instructional Designer/Curriculum Writer to add to their team. This person must have a strong business acumen and executive presence, as well as a client service mindset and desire to over-deliver.

This is a part-time, contract role, and this person may be based anywhere in the United States.

Responsibilities:
- Create, write, and build training on sales, communication, and soft skills from scratch
- Evaluate and critique existing presentation and educational materials
- Play an involved role in the development of new curriculum delivery methods, timing, and content – working with internal team as well as client resources
- Create examples and demos of what good sales/communication/soft skills look and sound like
- Leverage existing IP and develop new IP to deliver on the client engagements' goals
- Provide expertise and strategy as to how best to deliver consultancy’s IP to a variety of audiences in a variety of formats
- Work with subject matter experts and identify target audience’s training needs
- Apply tested instructional design theories, practice, and methods
- Build unformatted slides and workbooks containing the training frameworks, examples, and activities
- Understand how training should flow before passing materials along to the design team
- Work with the company’s clients as well as the client’s SMEs during the discovery phase to extract examples and company nuances/jargon to learn how best to insert such information into training materials

Requirements:
- 5+ years Instructional Design/Curriculum Writing experience; preferably in a business setting
- Experience in adult learning settings
- MS in Instructional Design or other advanced degree strongly preferred, but not mandatory
- Experience creating, writing, and building from scratch training on sales/communication/soft skills
- Extensive experience working in client-facing roles
- Ability to listen to sales or customer service teams and understand what reps are missing
- Ability to create trainings and demos showing how preferred sales, communication, and soft skills look and sound like
- Capable of extracting external company nuances and jargon and implementing these findings into training materials
- Motivated and diligent self-starter with an ability to lead
- Superior written and oral communication skills; detail-oriented

Compensation: $50-80/hour; DOE