Job Description

Do you look to create engaging learning experiences for your stakeholders? Are you continuously developing your learning content development skills? Do you love exploring what is new and exciting in the world of learning and development? If so, we have an exciting role on our Learning Solutions team for you!

McLean & Company is the fastest growing advisory firm in the world. As we build out our external client facing Learning Solutions practice, we are looking for a Senior Learning Specialist to help us grow to the next level and meet the growing demand for our products. In this role you’ll create engaging, high-quality learning products covering topics relevant to Human Resources and Leadership teams. You’ll also leverage industry-leading learning delivery techniques and theories to create the best learning experience for our clients.

Why McLean & Company? McLean is a place where your voice will be heard – a place where you will see the impact of your work with our 30,000+ members. It is a place where you will find community and collaboration, where you will work with diverse individuals with their own unique stories and experiences. McLean is a place where success is celebrated by the whole team – a place where you are encouraged to stretch and grow.

Please Note: This is a this is a temporary remote position. We are open to candidates located across Canada.

Position Purpose:

The Senior Learning Specialist plays an important role in Learning Solutions by creating high impact learning content for McLean & Company clients. They will collaboratively create learning experiences using our instructional design process to help drive McLean & Company’s products to be engaging, effective, and market competitive.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Learning Specialist, you will:

• Create learning content within a content development cycle which could include project planning, content storyboarding, digital asset creation, and formal learning evaluation using leading learning theories and technologies.
• Work with the team to enhance products using instructional design and learning experience best practices, collaborating with experienced peers when necessary.
• Author learning content rooted in the findings of McLean & Company’s research, communicating your message using conversational and web-friendly writing skills.
• Design high-impact learning activities and evaluations (formal and informal), ensuring that they are varied to reinforce key concepts and increase knowledge transfer.
• Initiate knowledge sharing within the team by staying on top of industry trends, sharing knowledge and insights with their peers.

Key Selection Criteria:

Essential:

• 3-5 years’ experience in instructional design, employee training, learning & development.
• Instructional design with AI experience.
• University degree or equivalent in Education, Instructional Design, Adult Learning, Communications, or Human Resources.
• Strong project and time management skills, able to handle multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey messages in a clear and concise manner.
• Intellectually curious about the effect of HR on the business landscape, with a passion for continuous learning.
• Proven ability to recognize opportunities and find new and better ways to do things, for example leveraging AI.
• Strong Microsoft Office 365 (PowerPoint, Word, and Excel) and eLearning software (Articulate)skills.
• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, flexible, rapidly changing work environment.

Desirable:

• Experience working in the content development teams at consulting, production, or training providers.
• Proven skill in creating highly engaging and impactful learning experiences, from content design to delivery to evaluation.
• Experience working with AI and rapid authoring tools for digital learning experiences.
• Experience handling the administration of learner experiences within a learning management system or learning experience platform.
• Formal certifications or designations in the fields of Learning & Development, Instructional Design, Web Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion, Project Management, or Human Resources.
• In-depth knowledge of current gamification, microlearning, learning simulation, and social learning theories

McLean & Company, a division of Info-Tech Research Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic including Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants. To that end, upon request, ITRG will ensure, to the extent possible, that accommodation be made available to applicants throughout the recruitment and hiring process.

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