Technical Writer - Randstad USA

job summary:

We are looking for a Technical Writer for a contract with a client of ours in San Antonio, TX. This position is 100% onsite and

Experience/ Skills required:

• 2+ years of instructional design, training and development, or equivalent job experience.
  
  
• 2+ years of Financial writing/industry experience
  
  
• Supporting Financial degree or accreditation
  
  
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Instructional Design, or related area.
  
  
• Experience in the refining industry.
  
  
• Proficient in using primary Microsoft Office programs (i.e. Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
  
  
• Basic skills in additional Microsoft Office programs (i.e. Outlook, Visio, and Access)
  
  
• Demonstrated proficiency in curriculum and training strategy development and implementation.
  
  
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence.
  
  
• Financial and technical writing acumen
  
  
• Ability to read and interpret company policies, regulatory guidelines, and other work-related documentation.
  
  
• Ability to abide by confidentiality requirements when working with sensitive information, results, and communications.
  
  
• Ability to work in a team environment.
  
  
• Ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal methods.
  
  
• Ability to accomplish work within required timelines, including short, long, and emergency timeframes.
  
  
• Ability to work with others to accomplish challenging assignments.
  
  
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple assignments to ensure completion of tasks within stated time requirements.

Prefered Requirements:

• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of design and development technology, such as Photoshop, InDesign, Captivate, Storyline, etc., which supports creative program design.
  
  
• Project management skills.
  
  
• Instructional and learning design skills specific to eLearning.
  
  
• Instructional and learning design skills specific to user experience design.
  
  
• Instructional design skills specific to curriculum development.

 
location: San Antonio, Texas
job type: Contract
salary: $40 - 50 per hour
work hours: 8am to 4pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:

• Design and development of documentation and supporting resources for proprietary financial and refinery systems and related activity.
  
  
• Create content related to accounting, budgeting, systems, and proprietary financial tools.
  
  
• Create instruction/learning documentation that provides support for users of internal systems.
  
  
• Conduct on-going needs analysis and confer with IS and Talent Development professionals to determine learner needs.
  
  
• Compile data and analyzs past and current training requirement.
  
  
• Conduct task analysis/research to identify the specific knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed to achieve desired performance levels.
  
  
• Conduct learner analysis; identifying target audiences, current skills, performance gaps, special needs, prior knowledge, and attitudes.
  
  
• Coordinate with other departments, subject matter experts (SMEs), and support groups (such as graphics design and print shop) to ensure timely delivery of projects.
  
  
• Develop training plans and supporting strategies for implementation of created training plans.
  
  
• Identify measurement strategies to evaluate success of learning programs and develop tools for the evaluation/measurement of post-training learning effectiveness.
  
  
• Communicates with internal clients to assess project requirements and modify content based on intended audience.
  
  
• Offers consulting guidance and expertise to customers to ensure their needs are met or exceeded.
  
  
• Remains current on key training methodology to maximize effectiveness of contributions to team projects.
  
  
• Identify and describe target population characteristics.

• Formulates learning objectives/topics, and determines instructional methods for desired training courses.
  
  
• Conducts instructio