Principal Instructional Designer - Propel/Elevate

Requisition ID # 174554 

Job Category: Human Resources 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Enterprise Transformation

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Position Summary

PG&E Academy is looking for an Instructional Designer to join our PG&E Academy Curriculum Development Team in support of Gas Operations learning needs. This role works closely with the development team and clients to develop and maintain the learning content, tools, systems, and programs that support our employee’s ability to safely and efficiently perform their work and job tasks. This is accomplished via a wide range of methodologies, delivery mechanisms and formats to meet specific business needs. The Instructional Designer will work closely with subject matter experts as well as internal and external stakeholders to translate business and performance objectives into learning and performance support solutions and to ensure that employees are trained to competence.

Propel is a business and technology modernization program that will revolutionize PG&E’s way of working. Propel will standardize our business processes, enable innovation and unlock value across our core business functions as we move to a new version of SAP.

Elevate is PG&E’s enterprise-wide program to modernize and standardize our GIS platforms. GIS-based technology is critical to PG&E’s operations, supporting infrastructure and planning, emergency response and asset management. Elevate brings together electric, gas, power generation, land and telecom mapping systems into one connected network using Esri’s Utility Network (UN) technology.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and the Oakland General Office three times a week, or based on business need.

 Job Responsibilities 

•  Act as a thought leader and partner with clients and sr. management to devise and implement learning and performance support solutions that are high risk, high visibility, and have significant impact to company practices.
• Create, lead, manage and drive the execution of instructional strategies for enterprise-wide program implementation.
• May lead day-to-day training department operations, including the oversight of large, cross-functional teams.
• Exercise independent judgment, project oversight and accountability in leading the design and production of complex, cross-functional or company-wide learning and performance support projects that address cultural norms and practices and require measuring job performance impact, business results and return on investment.
• Motivate and influence leaders and stakeholders at multiple levels. Lead groups to develop best practices around training design methodologies; align goals, mission and vision of various Academy and Line of Business groups; partner closely with change agents to develop and align instructional framework to drive business metrics and messaging.
• Conceptualize, plan and execute strategies and programs around various instructional disciplines in partnership with external stakeholder groups.
• Coach, mentor and train other team members and project partners. 
• Research industry best practices and share potential applications for practice within PG&E’s organizational context.

Qualifications

Background Qualifications:

Minimum:

Desired:

Compensation:

• PG&E provides the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting
• This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job
• The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity
• Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs

A reasonable salary range is:​:

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