Job Description
100% remote position - Contractor needs to be located in US
Position might be extended additional 6 month in 2027.
Work Location - Remote within the United States
Education - Bachelor's degree required
Experience - Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience
Primary Focus - Translate the Organization Design Framework into practical learning, Playbook content, tools, and practitioner resources
Key Responsibilities:
Playbook Architecture and Development
Learning Needs and Audience Analysis
Learning Architecture and Pathways
External Learning Content Evaluation and Integration
Community of Practice Content Partnership
Content Repository and Lifecycle Management
Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
Key Deliverables
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Success Profile:
Compensation: The hourly rate for this position is between $63-$65 per hour.
Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].
Benefits: Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.
Position might be extended additional 6 month in 2027.
Work Location - Remote within the United States
Education - Bachelor's degree required
Experience - Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience
Primary Focus - Translate the Organization Design Framework into practical learning, Playbook content, tools, and practitioner resources
- The Senior Instructional Designer will translate the Danaher Organization Design Framework, related methodologies, and practitioner knowledge into clear, practical, human-centered learning experiences, Playbook content, tools, and resources that enable HR practitioners to apply Organization Design confidently and consistently in their work.
- The role will combine instructional design, content development, performance support, learning evaluation, and product thinking. The contractor will partner closely with the Organization Effectiveness Portfolio Leader and subject matter experts to convert complex concepts into usable guidance while maintaining the integrity of the underlying methodology.
Key Responsibilities:
- Framework-to-Practice Translation
- Develop a deep understanding of the Organization Design Framework, design philosophy, key concepts, and intended practitioner experience.
- Translate conceptual Organization Design methodology into clear, practical, practitioner-oriented guidance.
- Identify what users need to know, understand, decide, and do at each stage of the Framework.
- Break complex concepts into usable steps without oversimplifying or weakening the methodology.
- Design content around real practitioner needs, decisions, and use cases rather than academic descriptions alone.
- Identify where users require additional explanation, examples, decision support, practice, or performance support.
- Clarify when, why, and how a method, activity, or tool should be used.
- Maintain consistent terminology and clear connections across the Framework, Playbook, Community of Practice, and capability-building resources.
Playbook Architecture and Development
- Design and maintain the information architecture and content structure for the Organization Design Playbook.
- Develop practitioner-focused content from approved Framework components and subject matter expert input.
- Create clear navigation, logical sequencing, cross-references, and pathways through the Playbook.
- Write concise explanatory content and practical application guidance.
- Develop activities, exercises, decision guides, templates, worksheets, checklists, and job aids.
- Develop facilitator guidance and supporting instructions where appropriate.
- Create examples and illustrative scenarios based on approved inputs.
- Integrate approved Danaher and DBS resources and ensure they are presented in a coherent practitioner experience.
- Support iterative releases so useful resources can be made available as they are approved.
- Establish and apply consistent content-development, design, and quality standards.
- Incorporate user and stakeholder feedback into future versions and releases.
Learning Needs and Audience Analysis
- Define key learner and practitioner audiences in partnership with the Portfolio Leader.
- Translate Organization Design capability expectations into specific learning and performance needs.
- Identify differences in need by role, experience level, and expected application.
- Identify prerequisite knowledge and likely barriers to successful application.
- Determine where formal learning is appropriate and where a job aid, reference guide, coaching, peer learning, or practice opportunity would better meet the need.
- Translate real questions and recurring needs from advisory engagements, Community sessions, and Office Hours into learning requirements.
- Help prioritize development based on business need, learner need, expected impact, and available capacity.
Learning Architecture and Pathways
- Develop a coherent learning architecture for Organization Design capability building.
- Define measurable learning objectives and expected outcomes.
- Recommend delivery modalities based on the learning need and the context in which the capability will be applied.
- Develop blended, cross-modality learning pathways using appropriate combinations of live learning, self-directed resources, tools, practice, peer learning, coaching, and Office Hours.
- Create logical sequencing across foundational, intermediate, and advanced resources where appropriate.
- Design opportunities for application, practice, reflection, feedback, and reinforcement.
- Connect Community of Practice learning activities to broader capability-building pathways.
- Help practitioners identify the right resource based on the challenge or decision they are facing.
External Learning Content Evaluation and Integration
- Support structured review of external Organization Design learning assets, including AIHR content when applicable.
- Map external content against Danaher Organization Design capability requirements and learning objectives.
- Identify alignment, gaps, duplication, conflicting terminology, and areas requiring adaptation or custom development.
- Recommend which content can be leveraged, adapted, supplemented, or replaced.
- Organize selected external content into coherent learner pathways.
- Develop Danaher-specific context, examples, guidance, or performance-support resources to close identified gaps.
- Document content decisions, dependencies, and recommendations to support future maintenance.
- Learning and Performance Asset Development
- Design and develop facilitator presentations, participant materials, and supporting learning resources.
- Create job aids, quick-reference guides, worksheets, planning guides, checklists, and reusable templates.
- Develop interactive practice activities, reflection exercises, discussion guides, and case-based learning.
- Develop pre-work, reinforcement materials, and post-learning performance support where appropriate.
- Create self-service resources that enable practitioners to act without unnecessary one-to-one support.
- Apply strong visual hierarchy, information design, and plain-language principles to complex content.
- Use Microsoft PowerPoint and Copilot effectively to accelerate drafting and iteration while maintaining human review, accuracy, and quality control.
- Ensure deliverables meet accessibility, usability, and visual-quality expectations.
Community of Practice Content Partnership
- Partner with the Portfolio Leader to define learning goals and outcomes for upcoming Community sessions.
- Translate selected topics into engaging learning experiences appropriate for experienced adult learners.
- Develop or refine instructional materials, participant activities, and application tools.
- Help subject matter experts translate expertise into clear, teachable content.
- Coach presenters on learning design and audience engagement when needed.
- Develop pre-session and reinforcement materials where they add value.
- Connect individual Community sessions to the broader capability pathway and Playbook.
- Partner with the Project Manager to complete content on time for high-quality production and delivery.
Content Repository and Lifecycle Management
- Establish and maintain a clear structure for Playbook, learning, and performance-support content.
- Maintain source files, approved files, final versions, and content inventories.
- Apply consistent naming, metadata, filing, and version-control practices.
- Track content through draft, review, approval, publication, revision, and retirement stages.
- Identify outdated, duplicate, inconsistent, or superseded content.
- Maintain traceability between Framework changes and affected learning or Playbook assets.
- Coordinate reviews with subject matter experts and content owners.
- Design content and repositories for maintainability, reuse, and efficient future updates.
Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
- Define measurable learning objectives and an evaluation approach appropriate to each intervention.
- Develop feedback instruments, knowledge or skill checks, and application measures where appropriate.
- Assess participant reaction, perceived usefulness, learning, and application using available evidence.
- Gather qualitative feedback from learners, facilitators, subject matter experts, and stakeholders.
- Partner with the Project Manager to incorporate Community feedback, questions, and usage insights.
- Maintain an improvement backlog for learning content and Playbook resources.
- Recommend revisions based on evidence and document what is working, what requires improvement, and where additional support is needed.
Key Deliverables
- Organization Design learning-needs analysis
- Learner and practitioner audience profiles
- Organization Design capability-learning architecture
- Cross-modality learning pathways
- Framework-to-learning content map
- Playbook architecture, navigation model, and content standards
- Developed Playbook modules and practitioner guidance
- Job aids, worksheets, tools, templates, and checklists
- Facilitator and participant materials
- Community of Practice learning content and application activities
- External content assessment and mapping, including AIHR content when applicable
- Content inventory, repository structure, and lifecycle-management process
- Evaluation strategy, instruments, and learning-effectiveness reporting
- Continuous-improvement backlog and documented recommendations
- Reusable templates and documentation that support sustainable maintenance of the content portfolio
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Minimum of five years of relevant professional experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in instructional design and adult learning.
- Demonstrated experience developing learning content for experienced professional audiences.
- Knowledge of learning-program evaluation methods and the ability to define measurable learning objectives.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Copilot.
- Excellent writing, editing, information-design, and visual-communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex or conceptual material into clear, practical guidance.
- Experience developing performance-support resources and job aids, not only formal courses.
- Experience designing blended or cross-modality learning experiences.
- Strong stakeholder, subject matter expert interviewing, and content-development skills.
- Ability to work effectively with evolving source material and deliver through iterative development.
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy, consistency, and content quality.
- Able to work remotely within the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience developing content related to Organization Design, Organization Development, Human Resources, leadership, change, or transformation.
- Experience designing learning for enterprise or global audiences.
- Experience with practitioner playbooks, toolkits, performance support, or product-based learning portfolios.
- Experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Experience evaluating and integrating third-party learning content.
Success Profile:
- The successful contractor will be a senior instructional designer who is both a rigorous learning professional and a practical simplifier. This person will be able to understand complex Organization Design concepts, identify what is unclear or missing, and turn the methodology into high-quality resources that practitioners can readily understand, navigate, and apply in real business situations.
Compensation: The hourly rate for this position is between $63-$65 per hour.
Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].
Benefits: Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New York, NY (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $63–$65 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.sunrisesys.com/ |
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
- Business, management, and technical fields
- Information technology consulting and software solutions.
- Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
- Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
- Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
- Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Data processing and data migration
- Application re-engineering and platform migration
- Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.
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