Curriculum Quality, Senior Specialist

Summary

The Sr. Specialist, Curriculum Quality collaborates with the Member Competency & Learning (MC&L) team and subject matter experts (SMEs) in the analysis, design, development, editing, implementation, evaluation and continuous improvement of IIA instructor-led training and executive development learning products. This role creates participant guides, facilitator guides and PowerPoint presentations along with other materials to develop continuing education opportunities for the internal audit profession.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure consistency of editorial style and usage across The IIA’s course materials.
• Operate in accordance with agreed IIA and department standards to ensure consistency of content and content design features across IIA curriculum.
• Enhance the participant experience by ensuring flow and consistency of IIA curriculum.
• Perform quality assurance reviews on all courses developed by editing each submission, ensuring it complies with IIA and department style guides and SOPs.
• Complete the appropriate QA checklist for each course to validate that all quality requirements are complete.
• Create and maintain PowerPoint and related education presentation materials used across multiple delivery modalities.
• Support the design and development of Instructor-Led-Training (ILT) products working closely with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in various roles including writing, presentation design, and quality review.
• Develop and maintain course description and learning objectives for all courses ensuring compliance with the IIA Competency Framework, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and NASBA requirements.
• Using facilitation materials, develop creative and visually meaningful and impactful PowerPoint slides or other education presentations utilizing adult learning theory to captivate internal audit professionals.
• Manage the external content permissions ensuring all permission requests are documented, requested and approved before courses are finalized.
• Write knowledge check questions, final assessments, and certificate exams for courses to ensure comprehension of material consistent with learning objectives.
• Stay up to date on information and trends related to the internal auditing profession to ensure that curriculum content is supporting the profession today while addressing future needs and direction for the profession.
• Partner with and mentor external contractors.

• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities  

No direct management responsibilities.

Qualifications 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strong proofreading, editing, and style guide conformance skills.
• High attention to detail and consistency of style across multiple products and formats.
• A mastery of MS PowerPoint design and development; Canva experience preferred.
• Familiarity with writing and editing learning objectives, activities, and assessments utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• A creative and analytical mindset that can create visually appealing courseware and materials.
• Ability to perform quality assurance reviews.
• Previous experience editing course content and exam items is a plus.
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated experience prioritizing and balancing multiple, ongoing high-profile projects with ability to meet critical deadlines.
• Ability to consider the global perspective and applicability of projects and content.

Education and/or Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Education/Training or similar course of study.
• 3 or more years of experience in learning content design and development with the ability to apply adult learning theory.

Technical Skills 

• Mastery of MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

• SmartSheet experience preferred.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Professional training or instructional design certifications are preferred.

Language Skills 

Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from members, customers, volunteers, and individuals in the broader business community. Ability to consolidate data from a wide variety of sources, interpret its meaning, and present such information in a meaningful way to top management and/or volunteers.  

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills 

Expert ability to work in a computerized environment with knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Web-related computer skills listed above.

Physical Demands 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and color vision.

Work Environment 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

This position will require work in our Headquarters office in Lake Mary, FL 40% of the time.