Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Salary: DOE
Position: Instructional Systems Designer (ISD) Consultant
Location: Onsite / Hybrid (Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), Southeast (SE) Washington, D.C.)
Position Type: Full Time Employment
About the Job
Instructional Systems Designer (ISD) Consultant with a current active TS/SCI clearance (and willingness to get a counterintelligence polygraph) supporting existing and emerging Department of Defense (DoD) professional certification programs within the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). This position requires the candidate to apply ISD concepts to ensure the effective creation, performance, and administration of DIA certification exam(s) and provide advice to program leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Advise the DIA Functional Manager for the Certified DoD All-Source Analysis (CDASA) Professional Certification Program on the design, effectiveness, and currency of the program’s employed assessment instruments.
- Lead certification program efforts to review the effectiveness of items used for certification exam(s) and, if necessary, develop new items with valid distractors.
- Work with certification team, community all-source analysis subject matter experts, and the CDASA Governance Council to develop, approve, and employ additional exam items.
- Ensure exam items and assigned study materials used to prepare for the exam fully represent the approved exam topic areas and appropriately measure exam results.
- Periodically review assigned study materials to ensure all references remain current.
- Review training courses available to prospective certification candidates to determine applicability to exam topic areas and crosswalk with assigned study materials; show a possible path via training that candidates could use to help prepare for the exam.
- Use ISD concepts to guide and assist the certification program staff in developing and updating certification policies and procedures, developing additional certification program(s), and preparing studies and presentations in support of program initiatives.
- Assist the Director of Analysis’ Training and Certification Branch, if necessary, to design and develop courses, related curriculum, assessments, and course evaluations.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Five (5) years of experience working alongside subject matter experts (preferably within the Department of Defense and/or the Intelligence Community) designing, developing, and maintaining assessment tools and assessment reference/study materials.
- Three (3) years of experience identifying and integrating skill standards and competencies into assessment (exam) development activities and strategies.
- Three (3) years of experience developing exam items to include creating valid item stems and distractors and periodically reviewing items to ensure viability and currency as related to skill standards and reference materials.
- Experience setting project milestones, adhering to deadlines, making decisions when presented with multiple options, and adjusting schedules as program needs change.
- Ability to effectively communicate (oral and written) with staff at all levels, to include the executives or board level, to keep projects aligned with goals and expected standards.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with high-stakes exams and professional certification program design, development, and maintenance.
- Thorough understanding of learning and instructional models and theory.
- Experience working in DoD, DIA, or national intelligence community environments.
- Experience supporting the development surveys, testing and training materials, data collection, databases, and project reports.
- Master's Degree in education, communications or related disciplines.
- Experience developing courseware for a variety of communication delivery methods including instructor-led training and webbased training and evaluating existing courseware to measure its effectiveness (required only if directed by the client).
EEO STATEMENT
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