Development Lead II - ELC @ Schenectady, NY (40543)

The eLearning group at the GE Energy Learning Center in Niskayuna, NY supports the eLearning needs of organizations throughout GE. As a core part of this support, the group designs, develops, deploys, supports, and maintains eLearning (digital training) course programs. The eLearning group’s onsite “core” team of approximately 15 members works on an ongoing basis with teams from offsite/offshore external vendors as needed to support development, translation, and other processes.
The interactive eLearning courses are built primarily using HTML and Flash and incorporate a variety of media including photographs, illustrations, animations, etc. with audio narration as well as interactive learning exercises. Courses are deployed online via the company’s Learning Management System (LMS) and are also offered on CD and as downloadable versions. Many courses have a global audience and are translated/localized into 17 languages for use in more than 20 countries.

The group’s current catalog of courses includes more than 150 discrete main topics, many with multiple sub-courses/variations (including foreign language versions, country-/business-/site-specific additional content versions, etc.) for a total of approximately 1000 programs.

Task Description:

This person will be part of our onsite team, joining our existing group of 4 eLearning Development Leads. A program manager will provide guidance to this position, and specific on-the-job-training will be provided as needed.
As a Development Lead, this person will primarily be responsible for leading the development of some of our eLearning courses. For any given course, major responsibilities include:
§ Project management of the course’s development, including project planning, coordination, tracking, scheduling, etc. to ensure that the course is high quality and delivered on budget and under deadline.
§ Interacting with customer(s) to understand learning objectives, develop and manage the course completion schedule, coordinate reviews, and generally achieve high customer satisfaction
§ Coordinating with and assisting the team’s course scripter/writer(s) for the course as s/he gathers content and works with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to write an instructionally sound and engaging script for the course
§ Collaborating with the course scripter(s) to design interactive learning exercises based on the course objectives
§ Coordinating and collaborating with offshore junior developer(s) to develop the course, including reviewing their design and development work as well as personally designing and developing media, course pages, etc. as needed
§ Working with multiple members of onsite team to coordinate and ensure QA testing, loading to LMS, and other process steps for the course

Qualifications

Required:
Ø Bachelor’s degree in web design/development or related field
Ø Proven project management skills
Ø Good graphic design skills, especially for web
Ø Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ø Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
Ø Ability to work effectively in teams as well as solo
Ø High attention to detail; very conscientious
Ø HTML–beginner to intermediate
Ø Flash– beginner to intermediate
Ø JavaScript—beginner to intermediate
Ø Fireworks/Photoshop– intermediate
Ø Flash Actionscripting—beginner to intermediate
Ø Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Preferred / “Pluses”:
Ø 2 years experience
Ø Multi-lingual skills
Ø Instructional design or training experience
Ø Dreamweaver experience
Ø Other web programming languages
Ø Illustration skills