Instructional Designer - Hiring Now

We are looking for a hardworking Instructional Designer to join our stellar team at ValGenesis in Lisboa.
Growing your career as a Full Time Instructional Designer is an amazing opportunity to develop excellent skills.
If you are strong in teamwork, adaptability and have the right personality for the job, then apply for the position of Instructional Designer at ValGenesis today!

Instructional Designer - Learning Services 

A Bit About Us…

We’re a rapidly growing global SaaS company that helps life-science organizations bring lifesaving products to market with increased quality and reduced ecological impact. Our customers include 30 of the top 50 global pharma and biotech companies. We lead our market through innovation and by delivering value over web, mobile, IOT, and AR channels.

 

Who We’re Looking For…

ValGenesis now seeks to expand its Learning Services Department. We’re a new team at ValGenesis, and under the direction and guidance of our VP, Nancy Cattle, we continue to grow. Come join the dynamic, fast-moving team that’s architecting and building a world-class University for the ValGenesis offerings. In Learning Services, we have a direct impact on our employees, our partners, our customers, and the business by providing product, business process, and skills training for audiences around the globe, from colleagues to partners to client end-users.

Location…

Lisbon, Portugal - In office 

What You’ll Do…

Instructional Design:

• Using the ADDIE model, design and develop courseware both e-Learning, vILT and ILT delivery.
  • Determine job tasks and workflows
  • Identify learning objectives and outcomes for courses and lessons
  • Learn the product as well as talking to SME’s for guidance
  • Design course and lesson content
  • Write clearly and concisely, in a consistent style and in compliance to our standards, effectively conveying the features of the system to the learner
  • Maintain environment data to use in creating training; interface with the Product team to obtain an environment and keep it updated
  • Design using adult learning principles
  • Develop vILT/ILT instructor guides
  • Create the lessons in Adobe Captivate
  • Interface with the LMS administrator to ensure proper upload of content to the learning management system  (Docebo is our LMS)
• Maintain Courses
  • Keep the content current with new releases
  • Define new topics to be incorporated into the program
• Project Management
  • Plan and estimate time to complete assignments
  • Provide weekly status on progress
  • Maintain project documentation and files

Training/Certifying:

• Support live training to audiences around the world
  • Currently: Answer questions that come in through the University e-Learning courses for your products.
  • Currently: Train the internal trainers on using the courseware and instructor guide if they need to deliver live training.
  • Currently: Support and help certify clients, partners, and internal staff who are going through our certification process.
  • Future: You may be delivering training virtually and/or on-site.

What You Bring…

•  3+ years’ experience working in software companies , understanding the development life cycle and software development lingo and able to collaborate and communicate with product developers.
• 3+ years’ experience in Life Sciences, in the area of validation and risk
• 3+ years working with the ADDIE model and Adult Learning Principles .
• Fluent in English and Portuguese
• Experience creating well-received course agendas and content
• Strong Instructional Design skills, including mind-mapping skills, writing “stories”, design learning flow, creating storyboards
• Basic Captivate skills, using our templates.
• A passionate, skilled, natural teacher; highly engaging, patient and committed
• Ability to engage the audience and tailor your delivery to their unique needs, enabling optimal engagement and learning retention
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong time management and organizational skills, along with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Experience working in a multi-cultural, global organization
• A commitment to customer success and cross-functional collaboration.
• A plus: 100+ hours of classroom (vILT or ILT) experience training users on software
• A plus: Ability to travel in Europe in the future to present training

More About US…

Headquartered in South San Francisco, since 2005 we’ve grown into a global organization with offices around the world. ValGenesis is the global market leader and fastest growing provider of digital validation software for life science companies. We are proud to partner with 30 of the top 50 global pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

 

Our SaaS platform and flagship product, Validation Lifecycle Management System (VLMS), is the first enterprise software solution to fully electronically manage the validation process lifecycle, accelerating time to market, reducing manufacturing costs, and increasing quality and regulatory compliance for our customers. As a first mover supporting the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries, ValGenesis is pioneering innovation over web, mobile, IOT, and AR channels. For more, see the Paperless Validation Software Solution ValGenesis video .

ValGenesis is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, ancestry, color, gender identity/expression, family/medical care leave, genetic information, medical condition, physical/mental disability, political affiliation, status as a protected veteran, status as a person with a disability, or other characteristics protected by laws or regulations.

 

Benefits of working as a Instructional Designer in Lisboa:

● Company offers great benefits
● Advancement opportunities
● Advantageous package