Instructor/Training Specialist

Pherson is seeking a New Employee Orientation (NEO) Instructor / Training Specialist to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future for incoming staff. Our New Employee Orientation (NEO) team manages our client’s New Employee Orientation suite of programs. The NEO Training Specialist facilitates, instructs, develops, maintains, and provides customer service in support of the new employee orientation course and first year events. The effective onboarding of new employees has a significant impact on sustaining our client’s brand as an employer of choice, providing an efficient and valuable onboarding experience, strengthening employee retention, and integrating new hires into the agency’s mission and culture.

Job Title/LCAT: NEO Functional Specialist - Journeyman

Location: Springfield, VA

Operating Hours and Expectations: This position anticipates onsite work with standard work hours, Monday-Friday

Security Clearance:  Candidates must have an TS/SCI clearance, with CI Poly eligibility

Position Type: Full-Time

Key Responsibilities:

• Instruct and facilitate courses for adult learners (Instructor-led in-person and online).


• Create curriculum and conducts curriculum maintenance.


• Adjust curriculum and develops new curriculum based on stakeholder, student feedback, and market research across the DoD, Intelligence Community and industry.


• Provide formal, informal, or non-formal training.


• Anticipate and meet the needs of new hires.

Qualifications:

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in any concentration/area of study.


• At least 5 years demonstrated experience instructing adult learners.


• At least 5 years demonstrated experience maintaining curriculum.
  


• At least 5 years demonstrated experience in developing courses.

Desired:

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Education, Teaching, Curriculum Design, Instructional Design, Educational Leadership, or similar degree that provides knowledge and education of adult learning.


• Experience supporting new hires (onboarding).


• Experience updating and maintaining content for informational websites.


• Experience in Instructional Systems Design (ISD).


• Experience facilitating and instructing adult learners both in-person and virtually.

About Pherson

Pherson was founded in response to requests for analytic, instructional, and management support from the Intelligence Community. We are a dynamic team of driven, supportive, and highly skilled professionals dedicated to providing top quality consulting, leadership development, and training services to the US Government and commercial clients. To learn more about us and the important work we do with our clients, visit our website at www.pherson.org. 

Pherson offers a full suite of benefits: health, dental and vision insurance; long- and short-term disability insurance and life insurance; paid time off, sick leave, and holidays; and 401k retirement plan.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected class.