Description

Job Description:

Leidos Government Civilian Health Solutions in Windsor Mill, MD (Baltimore) in support of the End-User Centric IT Support (ECIS) Contract for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is looking to improve and advance the organization by adding a Technical Training Specialist to our Communications, Knowledge, and Training Team. Our program focuses on the delivery of end-user centric IT technology solutions through a streamlined and seamless development, implementation, and communication experience.

The ideal candidate for the Technical Training Specialist will be responsible for conducting IT software, hardware, systems, and related training programs, performing training needs assessments, designing and delivering curriculum and learning materials, tracking and measuring training requests and effectiveness, bringing innovation to the team, ECIS program, customer and end-user.

Training priorities begin with the customer and include the ECIS team, training members to be program ready from day one. Training shall include group trainings and/or individual requests as needed. Audience size can range from individual, small group (5-30), or large group (30-100+). Training formats include web, video, audio, phone, and in-person when situations permit.

This position will play a dynamic and instrumental role in complementing and completing our communications outreach across a variety of channels and a multitude of audiences.

The candidate must be self-motivated, able to work well within a team, and be comfortable in a fast-paced environment, building and responding to both short and long-term projects, deliverables, and plans. This position will have direct contact with key customer stakeholders and groups.

This position is part of a multidisciplinary communications, knowledge and training team, including technical and content writers, visual and graphic designer, multimedia videographer, knowledge specialist, training specialist and business analyst including documentation and 508 compliance.

Collaboration with others across the in-house program is critical including with project managers, IT specialists and engineers, procurement, problem management, document and quality control, service desk and web developers. This position includes working with the customer, internal program team members, subject matter experts and other program partners and contractors. A customer service people-first mindset and approach are critical.

Primary Responsibilities

Under the direction of the Technical Training Coordinator, Team Lead, your responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:

• Develop and deliver effective course content
• Develop and guide the production of classroom handouts, instructional materials, aids, manuals including print, digital, video, audio and web formats as required, using appropriate equipment and software
• Conduct training sessions in phone/audio, web-based, or face-to-face learning, situation permitting
• Extensive experience using Microsoft Office, Adobe, other commonly used office products and systems including CommonLook applications
• Familiarity training should be given on assistive technology deployment
• Section 508 accessibility and disability awareness training will be delivered to all program contract employees with a specialist available to assist with larger groups
• Ability to learn hardware/software programs with minimal support
• Ensure training is provided where needed for new technologies and systems, integrating efforts with the communications plan, knowledge and means for distribution
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills in communicating complex processes into simple and easy to understand concepts
• Provide editing and proofreading through all stages of communications, training and documentation
• Advance communication processes, guidelines and standard procedures including document management, review and approval processes and quality control
• Ensure documents meet editorial and government specifications and adhere to standards for quality, content, format and style including meeting 508 compliance
• Make sure training modules are available in Service Desk portal systems and assigned to groups as needed
• Strong verbal and presentation skills including with diverse audiences, job types, high level of comfort speaking in front of groups, facilitating complex conversations, and working across multiple levels of leadership
• Keep abreast of training and development research, learning theory, motivation theory and new training methods and techniques

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors or higher degree in writing, mass communications, training, teaching, curriculum, instructional design, information technology or closely related discipline
• 2-4 years of experience creating, developing, and delivering training curriculum
• Ability to capture technical solutions and designs and translate in technical documentation and plain language
• Knowledge and experience with current training and documentation principles, best practices, and tools
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to develop content and curriculum to diverse learning styles, audiences, and mediums
• Ability to ensure documentation that is customer facing meets 508 compliance requirements, including coordination of compliance checks with the program’s 508 specialist(s)
• An eye for good design, composition, and brand
• Ability to research and organize processes in a concise and discernible manner
• Ability to manage multiple assignments while ensuring technical accuracy and fact checking, adherence to documentation standards, and a timely delivery of all work products
• Demonstrated ability to use varying styles, approaches, skills, and techniques that reflect an understanding and acceptance of the role of culture in a diverse, multicultural workplace
• Attention to detail, ability to self-manage, check own work, and maintain quality
• Desire to bring innovation and creative thinking to projects to meet new goals and outcomes
• Ability to work within a team and independently, working methodically to meet deadlines
• Strong collaboration skills
• Must be able to work additional hours on occasion
• Ability to travel locally required and at times regionally or nationally as requested and when the situation permits
• Ability to obtain a public trust clearance

All candidates supporting the CMS programs must have lived in the United States at least three (3) out of the last five (5) years prior in order to be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work to 508 compliance
• Experience with human centered design (HCD) framework
• Experience working with agile project management including in Jira and Confluence environments
• Experience working with vendors for curriculum development or training delivery and implementation
• Experience in a similar working environment helpful but not required as new thinking from other industries or work environments considered a plus

Other

Portfolio of work may be requested (print or digital acceptable) as part of the initial application process.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.