Technical Trainer

GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being trusted to deliver your best every day. We think. We act. We deliver. There is no challenge we can't turn into opportunity. Our work depends on TS/SCI level cleared Technical Trainer joining our team to support our Intelligence customer in D.C Metro area or St. Louis, MO.

Design, develop, implement, and evaluate technical training programs. Prepare lesson plans, course outlines, schedules, and assignments. Identify the main objectives and skills or concepts that participants need to learn. Explain key concepts and principles and create assignments or hands-on activities to allow students to develop practical skills. Work in close collaboration with other internal teams and stakeholders to develop course content and goals. They establish metrics for determining course outcomes and participant performance.

• Experience developing and leading training programs or teaching in some capacity.

• Ability to make technical or complex material interesting and engaging.

• Discuss training plans with customers to build custom courses to suit their needs.
• Maintain records of training activities, participant progress, and program effectiveness.

• Develop programs and processes that provide a service to industry, business, students, and/or other external/internal clients.

• Serve as technical assistant or point of contact with customer until 'go live' date and hand-off to support.

• Create and update course documentation as needed to ensure timeliness and relevance.

• Has a mix of being a technical instructor, a solution architect, and an evangelist.

• Coordination of training schedules to ensure the most efficient use of resources.

• Responsible for ad hoc, scheduled in person and virtual lectures, demonstration, discussion, and related instructional delivery methods.

• Deliver standard and customized training based on field needs and the delivery of new product and technology training in support of field readiness.

• Help to create, test, and review new and existing courseware.

• Work directly with product development teams to understand roadmaps and plan for content updates or new training offerings.

• Keep informed of and maintain proficiency with all company products.

• Coordinate logistics for instruction events, including scheduling classes reserving classrooms, travel arrangements and preparing workstations.
• A leader and collaborator with strict attention to detail.
• Comfortable making decisions and suggesting problem solving measures.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer engineering, systems engineering or any related field/major, or 5 additional years of experience in information technology.
• Demonstrated proficiency to execute approved test plans with supervision and communicate complex technical matters to have resolved.  
• Demonstrated experience in creating and executing instructional design curriculum