Instructional Designer Galway, Ireland

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Instructional Designer to join the Diligent Institute team. You will be passionate about creating engaging and effective e-learning courses and programs for a high velocity dynamic software company. You are technically adept, you have business acumen, and you can simplify the complex. The role of Instructional Designer will be responsible for creating engaging self-paced e-learning courses and other learning content that enables our customers to effectively navigate complex governance, risk and compliance workflows. In addition, you will be responsible for ensuring an outstanding customer experience from onboarding to graduation and renewal for participants of Diligent Certifications, being the team’s subject matter expert of our learning management system.

Key Responsibilities:

• E-learning courses
• Work alongside copywriters to turn written materials into engaging e-learning courses
• Create immersive educational experiences using a variety of mediums to maximize engagement (e.g. diagrams, videos, activities, assessments, scenarios, interactive exercises)
• Utilize style guides, user experience best practices, and user feedback to create beautiful courses that are easy to navigate
• Manage ongoing maintenance or application for new accreditation for new credentials for the programs including CLE, CPE and CPA
• Maintain courses and organize course documents and assets
• Own usage of the learning management system on behalf of Diligent Institute
• Run regular reporting across courses and users and partnership with internal teams to drive customer adoption
• Provide administrative support and customer support to customers of bespoke programs. This may include responding to customer enquiries, managing users and updating content
• Equip the customer support team with FAQs and guides to answer customer enquiries
• Manage and maintain documentation for onboarding across our customer groups

Required Experience/Skills:

• 2-5 years of experience in curriculum and instructional design for adult learners in an e-learning environment
• In-depth knowledge of learning theories and instructional design models
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Experience with a learning management system, ideally Thought Industries
• Experience with authoring technologies, ideally Articulate Rise 360
• Familiarity or proficiency with coding is a bonus (SQL, Python, HTML, CSS)

What Diligent Offers You:

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients.
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few.
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney.

We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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