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Instructional Designer - Trainer

Posting Details

Position Information

Fiscal Year 2023-2024
Position Title Instructional Designer - Trainer
Classification Title Instructional Support Technician
Department Business Reporting and Systems
Posting Number P240099
Posting Link https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/49122
Employer State
Position Type
Professional Appointment Term Term
Salary Grade SL3
Posting Detail Information

Position Summary
The Office of Business Reporting and Systems within Business Services is looking for a highly-skilled Instructional Designer/Trainer to join our team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing and executing engaging training plans, classes, and learning materials, including documentation, manuals, self-paced learning modules, videos, webinars, and more. As part of your duties, you’ll also be responsible for scheduling classes, providing user onboarding for university employees on certain UB business systems, and reviewing feedback to improve materials and classes. Your expertise will be paramount in identifying opportunities to leverage technology to enhance the learning process.

Duties included in this role:
  • Create strategic training programs that align with business needs and projects
  • Assess individual and group training needs
  • Plan, prepare, and research lessons
  • Create a diverse variety of deliverables – (i.e. documentation, videos, self-paced learning, webinars, etc.)
  • Develop and deliver in-person and remote courses to individuals and groups in a professional manner
  • Organize, prepare and promote courses and customized training materials
  • Develop and maintain web-based training materials including videos, instruction manuals, and tip sheets
  • Collaborate with project coordination team to develop training plans, course materials and documentation for new software applications
  • Apply new technologies to deliver courses and improve the learning experience for users
  • Develop and assess learning outcomes for participants
  • Keep personal IT and training skills and knowledge up to date


Outstanding Benefits Package
Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit – all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about our benefit packages.

About The University at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo (UB) #ubuffalo is one of America’s leading public research universities and a flagship of the State University of New York system, recognized for our excellence and our impact. UB is a premier, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence. Our research, creative activity and people positively impact the world. Like the city we call home, UB is distinguished by a culture of resilient optimism, resourceful thinking and pragmatic dreaming that enables us to reach others every day. Visit our website to learn more about the University at Buffalo.

University at Buffalo is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and, in keeping with our commitment, welcomes all to apply including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Minimum Qualifications
  • A bachelor’s degree
  • A minimum of 2 years experience as trainer/instructor is required
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work well with people at all levels of the organization is essential
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Strong organizational, planning, and motivational skills
  • Experience with MS Publisher, Word and PowerPoint or similar software is required.
Preferred Qualifications
  • A bachelor’s degree in communications, Human Resources, MIS, computer science or education
  • Prior experience as business software trainer/instructor
  • Experience utilizing remote teaching, conferencing, and course development tools like Zoom or Panopto is desired
  • Experience utilizing or teaching cloud-based procurement, expense reimbursement, budgeting, and reporting tools is a plus
  • Experience in instructional design
  • Teacher/trainer and professional certifications are a plus
  • Event planning experience a plus
  • Software design/development experience.
Physical Demands
N/A
Salary Range $60,000 - $70,000
Additional Salary Information The salary range reflects our good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible compensation at the time of posting, the role and associated responsibilities, and the experience, education, and training of the selected candidate.
Type Full-Time
Campus North Campus
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Additional Information
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
Is a background check required for this posting? Yes
Background Check Notification For non-internal applicants: a selected candidate will have to complete and pass a background check prior to appointment.
Contact Information

Contact's Name Kelly Stich
Contact's Pronouns
Contact's Title Administrative Staff Assistant
Contact's Email stcih@buffalo.edu
Contact's Phone 716-645-6074
Posting Dates

Posted 03/14/2024
Deadline for Internal Applicants 03/28/2024
Deadline for External Applicants 05/10/2024
Date to be filled 06/15/2024
References

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Reference Cutoff Date
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Documents Needed To Apply

Required Documents
  1. Cover Letter
  2. Resume
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