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Do you do just e-learning or extend outside of e-learning?

Some additional titles come to mind:

• Sr E-Learning Developer
• Sr Training Specialist
• Sr Instructional Designer
• Sr Learning Design Specialist (Learning Design seems to be a title that a lot of people are shifting towards).

Having a title not limited to e-learning is advantageous down the road. 

Also, coordinator seems to be a sub-level position so I'd work to ditch it. :)

Congrats on your new opportunity, Ian.

Personally, I like "Sr. Instructional Designer" the best because it's an industry standard title. I agree with Tom that titles with "elearning" can seem dated or trendy in a few years.

Thanks Tom and David! 

My primary focus is e-learning, but as you mentioned, I don't necessarily want to pigeonhole myself with that title. I do like the suggestions you provided. I'm also feeling more comfortable dropping "coordinator" now. 

Thanks for helping me get my mind around that. Much appreciated. 

I review resumes and do most of the interviewing. When I see the word "Coordinator" I think lower level assistant job. If you are coordinating, then you are not the "doer". Senior Learning Consultant would encourage me to read your resume.

I agree with the others who think of "coordinator" as a lower level title than specialist or consultant.

I'll throw "Senior Learning Analyst" into the mix too. "Analyst" covers a lot of ground. I do like Senior Learning Specialist or Senior Learning Design Specialist too.

The only piece of advice I have came from a previous boss of mine. He said the shorter your title the more important it sounds.

Hello 

This is a very interesting post, and one that is difficult to advise on, as there are so many variants of job titles for doing the same role. This time last year when I was job hunting i had to put many different searches to find similar jobs. However I did manage to secure a role and with a job title i think works well : Learning Technologies and Information Manager - would this work for you?

Look down the road at your next potential job; you want to show growth in responsibility and work. Adding Senior to your title sounds like your next natural move "up the ladder." If you could get Manager all the better.

I agree with David Goodwin and Nancy Woinoski in that you've probably out grown the Coordinator title and the shorter the better. The description is where you'll define your responsibilities on your resume.

Personally, I loathe "Specialist" as it really pigeonholes you into a role/title.

Designer and Developer can be interchanged as each can do the other. A lot of people still think of Designer as visual and Developer as the back end/code side.  But products like SL and Captivate have allowed the lines to be blurred.

Just my .02, Senior Learning Developer would cover much of the spectrum.

Let's throw in voiceover, recording, editing and managing live training to all of the above oh and maintaining an internal version of a YouTube like website...

Will that change the job tile at all?

My letterhead mostly has "Chief Simplicity Officer" on it. By the time people need to contact me or communicate with me, they know what I do anyway, and this sums up what I aim to do in the interaction quite concisely!

Lots of good suggestions in here. I'll echo Tom and David's advice, ditch specialist and consider the "Sr. Instructional Designer."  Not sure what your career trajectory is, but search LinkedIn for key words that align with what you do and/or where you want to be in five years, and see what popular job titles come up.  "Sr. Instructional Designer" is definitely a popular job title, but I've also seen "Multimedia Specialist" Multimedia Producer/developer, and other variants. You'll probably get some results up that perhaps you wouldn't have considered.  Good luck!