Senior Instructional Designer

At Sunnova, we embrace diverse perspectives, vibrant creativity and forward-thinkers who share our zeal for a sustainable future. A career with us means pushing beyond traditional limits, exploring new horizons, collaborating with like-minded peers, and transforming the energy industry for the better.

If you’re excited about being a part of the fastest-growing segment of the energy industry, we encourage you to apply!

The Instructional Designer Position

Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Organizational Performance, the Senior Instructional Designer (ID) will work closely with the Organizational Performance and wider Human Resources teams. Primary collaborators will be the Leadership Development Facilitator, Learning Experience Coordinator, Human Resources Business Partners, and leaders and Subject Matter Experts from all departments and leadership levels.

This role is based remotely, but preference will be given to candidates living and working in the Houston, TX or Atlanta, GA metro areas. The ID will be accountable for creating courses and learning content in a variety of modalities for a wide audience, often with special focus on leaders. The creation of these courses and content will require a full development process including needs analysis, iteration, revisions, piloting, etc.

The Instructional Designer Responsibilities

The Instructional Designer will be expected to deliver on the following outcomes:

• Accessible Content: Learning content organized and stored so that learners can quickly and easily access them. The content is designed to be digestible in small chunks as needed so that time and bandwidth are not obstacles to learning
• Engaging Content: Learning content is designed in a wide variety of modalities and structures (documents, micro-learnings, videos, applications, experiences, eLearning, facilitator-led, etc.) so that learners engage at high levels and rate the content highly
• Precise, Powerful Writing: Communications, learning summaries, and instructional content is written in a way that reduces cognitive load, matches the tone and text to the audience, and engages learners
• Scalable Design: Content is created using today’s resources in a way that can be expanded and iterated as new technology and capabilities become available, enabling the team to rapidly expand content offerings over time
• Measurable Impact: Courses and experiences are developed with specific learning objectives that allow knowledge transfer and return on expectations to be measured and communicated to stakeholders
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Pressing performance and learning problems can be solved with solutions that fall outside the traditional “learning design landscape.”
• Full-Scale Development: The design process produces fully executable learning experiences via strong gap/needs analyses, resourceful content development, and iterative testing and feedback loops

Minimum Requirements

8+ years of experience successfully:

• Serving in an instructional design role at a mid-sized company that moves very quickly
• Leveraging proficiency with development tools including Articulate, Captivate, Storyline and Lectora; video creation/editing software, voiceover technology, and graphic design platforms
• Creating measurables and assessments to gauge learning effectiveness and absorption of content
• Translating complexity into simple, tonally appropriate communications and learning opportunities
• Designing learning content that:
• Makes measurable KSA and performance impact without the need for heavy oversight
• Uses a wide variety of modalities – facilitated and eLearn courses, learning games, experiential learning, videos, job aids, application opportunities, etc

Benefits

Sunnova offers a generous employee reward package that includes:

• Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, healthcare flexible spending account, and 401(k) with employer match
• Competitive compensation & annual bonus
• Paid time off, including 11 holidays and Paid Parental Leave

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

We appreciate the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), and we are looking to hire real people. If you use AI for any part of the job application process, we highly encourage that you review any AI generated content to ensure your personality and unique capabilities are highlighted. We reserve the right to disqualify candidates that we reasonably believe solely relied on AI generated content in the application process.

If you are selected for a position, your employment will be contingent upon submission to and successful completion of a post-offer/pre-placement drug test (and medical examination if required by the role) as well as pre-placement verification of the information and qualifications provided during the selection process.