IT Technical Trainer

Georgia  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Job Description

Our client is seeking an IT Technical Trainer

Position will be based in Tifton area and require travelling to our client's offices to train classes as needed within the State of Georgia: Tifton, Thomaston, Tennille, Jesup, Macon, Atlanta Area.

Our client may exercise the option to renew contracts in one year increments. Several successful consultants have continued working for several years with contract extensions.

Responsibilities

  • Candidate will be working as a team member within the IT organization and report to a Team Leader/Supervisor.
  • Adhere to the priorities, objectives, and guidance of Team Leader and IT management
  • Participate in IT Projects to design and develop learning materials
  • Produce effective training presentations, tutorials, instructor and student guides, lesson plans/exercises in multiple media and formats suitable to course audience
  • Create, review, and update training materials and documentation based on user feedback, classroom surveys, IT version updates, and IT support tickets
  • Proactively and effectively communicate with Team Leader and IT management
  • Adhere to the priorities, objectives, and guidance of Team Leader and IT management
  • Maintain, coordinate, and communicate training schedules with end users and stakeholders
  • Solicit classroom enrollment and maintain class information/user registration within (Oracle) Learning Management System
  • Collect and maintain training data to support department key performance indicators
  • Make arrangements for external vendor provided training at our client's training centers
  • Conduct training courses, customer webinars, on-site customer training, and user group sessions
  • Establish effective relationships throughout the organization, both within IT and across business units/customers/stakeholders to identify/address gaps in user training
  • Facilitate training for end users through a variety of mediums, which may include classroom settings, one-on-one, and online methods
  • Remain knowledgeable about our client's IT applications and business strategies as related to training materials and courses
  • Assist technical managers, IT developers, and specialists to explain complex technical concepts and business/data workflows to non-technical audiences
  • Provide user training support with IT product launches and go-lives
  • Travel to our client's business locations (within State of Georgia) to conduct training
  • Ability to maintain professionalism and order within the classroom to complete course objectives
  • Ability to adapt/respond in a dynamic, fast-paced, customer-focused IT environment characterized by rapid change, minimal lead times, and multiple competing priorities
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Training material software to be used includes, but is not limited to:
    • Microsoft Office Professional
    • Adobe Captivate
    • Trivantis Lectora (including Camtasia)
  • Training materials may include, but is not limited to:
    • Quick Reference Guides
    • Instructor Manuals
    • User Manuals
    • Videos
    • Web Based Training
  • Training content to be developed will include, but is not limited to:
    • Our client developed in-house software and systems - Training will be provided upon hire
    • COTS applications implemented by our client
    • Microsoft Office
    • SharePoint
    • Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE)
    • Cell phone/mobile applications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Training, Management, or Technical Communications, Engineering, MIS, IS, IT or other technical field.
  • Experience skills with Microsoft Office
  • 4+ years of experience in the field of IT technical training and train-the-trainer training
  • 4+ years of experience in developing role based end user training materials for IT applications/systems
  • Strong leadership, problem solving, oral presentation, technical writing, planning, and adult-learning/workforce teaching skills
  • Experience in course design and development
  • Experience in developing training content (eg user manuals, handouts, slides, exercises, and web based training)
  • Ability and flexibility to travel frequently within State of Georgia
  • Strong commitment to providing superior customer service
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Able to develop training content in collaborative team environment and work independently with minimal supervision to deliver training
  • Hands-on, can-do attitude
  • Able to maintain personal credit card for any expenses, our client will not provide advance payment on expenses, but will reimburse authorized expenses
  • Ability to maintain a valid driver's license and capable of driving/operating a car
  • Must have a clean driving record
  • Able to stand, stoop, kneel, lift, etc. to setup training centers and transport course materials

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with developing content for workforce teaching and instruction
  • 3+ years of experience with course delivery tools such as Captivate, Lectora, and Camtasia
  • Experience in managing lists and library content in SharePoint
  • Strong technical background in computers
  • Familiarity with ITIL or REMEDY
Start date
n.a
Duration
9 months
From
ESG Consulting
Published at
07.09.2018
Project ID:
1628097
Contract type
Freelance
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