Urgently Require Online Learning and Development Intern (Spring 2024) in USA
Job title: Online Learning and Development Intern (Spring 2024)
Company: Transamerica
Job description: Job Family Administrative Services
Who We Are
Transamerica has been helping people feel better about the future for more than 100 years. We provide investment, retirement, and life insurance solutions to more than 11 million customers throughout the U.S. But the way we see it, our responsibility goes beyond our clients? accounts. We?re in the business of helping people live well and empowering them to create a better tomorrow through the financial and health-related habits they form today. We help people prepare by providing solutions that consider the whole picture.
What We Do
Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, Employee Benefits, and Financial Assets), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People, Places & Brand; Risk; and Technology).
Job Description Summary Internships are short-term work experiences for a designated period of time that allow college students the opportunity to observe and participate in the professional work environment, to explore how his/her interests relate to possible careers, and to gain practical experience in an industry relating to their field of study.
Job Description
What You Will Do:
You will be responsible for content design and creation of online learning experiences and courseware related to organizational culture, leadership competencies, and other enterprise-wide learning topics as assigned. You will provide a unique and valued perspective as a fresh set of eyes, identifying alternate approaches to modern learning experiences. Your primary responsibility is the development of e-learning courses and resources using state of the art SCORM compliant authoring tools. You will design, develop, and deliver creative online learning experiences to influence cultural transformation. The projects assigned are moderately complex and require collaborative development with subject matter experts in various areas of our business and the Learning and Development team.
What You Will Learn:
You will be working with and supported by a team of ambitious and engaged learning professionals who will support you in bringing your fresh ideas and diverse perspectives to shake up the status quo and stay on the forefront of learning and training methodologies. You will learn what it means to work for a company that focuses on business results and engagement as it relates to learning and development, helping us to transform and grow our business to maintain Transamerica?s reputation as an industry leader.
What Success Looks Like:
- Be a fresh perspective to identify process improvements and or revisions for existing courses.
- Develop and create eLearning courses using educational technologies and leading development tools. Create course design plans, create storyboards, create content, and develop/execute knowledge assessments.
- Share your experience with emerging technologies that can be applied today.
- Interact with subject matter experts to identify, curate, and develop content for eLearning courses.
- Adapt existing instructor led workshops (materials, job aids, etc.) to meet learning needs for an online learning approach. Work with instructors of live events to create blended learning coursework.
- Perform quality assurance checks for courses being developed and the platform they reside on.
- Provide feedback on various initiatives.
- Candidates must be actively pursuing a master?s degree in Human and Organizational Performance, Instructional Design, Training and Development, Human Resource Management, Adult Education (Corporate) or a similar degree
- Internships are not available for students who have completed their college education or who will graduate prior to the conclusion of the internship
- Experience with eLearning authoring tools (e.g. Articulate, Captivate, Vyond, Lectora, Photoshop, Camtasia, etc.)
- Good understanding of instructional design methods, adult learning theory and web-based training.
- Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills with strong attention to detail.
- Creativity to develop engaging online courses using novel approaches to subject matter.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and meet project deadlines.
- Experience in eLearning development, instructional design, or appropriate combination of experience and education in content development in a professional learning environment.
- A hunger for learning.
- Experience with multi-media production and/or audio video production.
- Graphic design experience.
- Basic understanding of Learning Management Systems.
- Candidates must be able to work ~ 40 hours/week during the 16 week spring internship program (mid-January to mid-May)
- Remote work environment