Learning Consultant

Learning Consultant - Freelance at SweetRush Inc.

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AI summary:Leads discovery and design of adaptive learning assessments for enterprise clients, translating stakeholder needs into solution blueprints and implementation roadmaps.

Description

SweetRush has an exciting opportunity for a talented professional to join our team

Who We Are

At SweetRush, we believe that when you put people at the center of business, magic happens. As a global leader in learning and development, we blend high-end storytelling, emerging tech like AI and VR, and deep psychological insights to help organizations—from iconic global brands to essential nonprofits—flourish. We are a remote-first, tight-knit community built on a foundation of radical empathy and creative excellence. Our work isn’t just about the awards we win with incredible partners such as Hilton, Google, Bridgestone, Adidas, SHRM, and numerous others; it’s about balancing profit with a genuine desire to spread good in the world. If you are a caring innovator who believes work should be life-centered and impactful, then this is where you come in…

About the Opportunity

Our client, a large consulting company, is looking for a partner to design an adaptive assessment so that learners can skip training they don’t need. For example, a learner with certain knowledge or skills might spend about 2 hours on a program that would otherwise take 8 hours.

We are looking for a Learning Consultant to guide this high-level engagement. The successful candidate will lead the discovery and design work with our client’s senior Learning & Development leaders and line-of-business leaders. You will create a Solution Blueprint that the client will then use to create the learning solution.

Location: Chicago, IL metropolitan area (United States). Mostly work from home, with some travel to the Chicago-based client. Engagement type: 1099 Freelance Duration: 12 weeks, expected to start in November 2026 Hours: Typically 20–30 hours per week, but will vary. Some weeks could be zero hours, with busier weeks when traveling.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and facilitate working sessions, on-site and virtual, with senior L&D leaders and line-of-business professionals.
• Hold the room with senior and C-suite stakeholders: steer toward decisions, push back with credibility, and keep scope from drifting.
• Translate findings into the assessment strategy, personalized learning pathways, and implementation roadmap.
• Own the Solution Blueprint and co-author the build specification with the Psychometrician and the client’s build team.
• Work with the Psychometrician to map the assessment and content and to design the learning journeys.
• Collaborate with SweetRush’s Solution Architect and, possibly, a Creative Director.
• Deliver a blueprint that will define the assessment strategy, personalized learning pathways, technology requirements, and implementation roadmap, with Psychometrician review to support assessment validity.

What You Bring

• 10+ years in instructional design or learning strategy, with clear ownership of discovery, design thinking, or leading facilitated workshops
• Strong instructional and learning experience design skills
• Strong facilitation skills and executive presence
• Experience designing assessments that measure performance, not just recall, using scenarios, simulations, and judgment-based items
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to produce blueprints and specs a build team can use
• Credibility with executives: you can hold the room, ask the questions that get the information you need, and push back constructively
• A collaborative approach with learning, assessment, and technical teams

Nice to have:

• Working knowledge of assurance or accounting professional learning, such as CPE rules, NASBA, mandatory training, and competency frameworks
• Experience with adaptive learning, test-out or competency-based programs, or skills taxonomies
• Experience working with a Psychometrician
• Comfort with AI in learning
• A CPA background, or prior work with large consulting firms

This is not a pure instructional design role. We are looking for learning consultants who can both design curriculum and facilitate. Experience in a consulting environment or at a large consultancy is a plus, but strong learning experience design matters more

SweetRush is a remote organization, and as such, all resources must be technically savvy, have access to a strong internet signal, be comfortable with virtual/instant messaging and conferencing tools, and generally be available during established wo