Instructional Designer

Job Description

The Instructional Designer works as part of an instructional development team and under limited supervision, is responsible for designing and reviewing effective, quality instruction for technology-enabled learning environments.

This position serves in a mentoring role to Instructional Designers 1. In this way, it has some responsibility for leadership within the group.

This is a hybrid position with some remote and some in-office days each week.Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Highly-developed organization skills

• Excellent analytical skills

• Well-developed critical thinking skills

• Strong problem-solving abilities

• Ability and willingness to question status quo practices and influence others through persuasion and demonstration

• Ability to conceptualize innovative ideas and solutions

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills

• Ability to concurrently manage multiple assignments

• Solid understanding of Learning Theory and Instructional Design Theory

• Fluency and comfort in the use of technology in everyday life

• Fluency in using popular productivity software (MS Office suite or equivalent) on Windows or Mac platforms

• Fluency in navigating the web and using web-based tools to facilitate work, learning, collaboration, productivity, research, etc.

• Sound understanding of, and ability to use fundamental web development technologies and tools

• Ability to work independently, with limited direction

• Ability to take the lead among professional peers and partners

• Ability to influence and mentor others by example and the use of constructive criticism

• Ability to represent/defend interests and concerns of a group to others

• Ability to quickly and accurately evaluate the work of others

• Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of people with a variety of abilities and backgrounds, to maintain good working relationships across the College.

• Ability to work with all groups from a variety of academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, and with community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Designs effective, quality instruction for technology-enabled learning environments, including on higher profile, larger, and more complex projects (i.e., projects involving multiple college departments/faculty, projects external to the college, etc.)

• Cultivates close, collaborative and professional working relationships with faculty, content experts (CEs) and other members of the development team

• Applies systematic instructional design methods in real world, online instructional settings

• Reviews the instructional quality of courses/products

• Identifies and clarifies instructional objectives

• Assesses faculty and content expert teaching style(s) and student audience and applies appropriate learning theory, instructional design theory, and/or technology to instructional situation

• Questions and influences the practices of faculty & content experts in a course/product in order to enhance instruction

• Implements innovative approaches and strategies in a course/product to solve instructional problems

• Selects appropriate technologies, including specific applications, to enhance instruction in a course/product

• Identifies areas of weakness in courses/products, and employs strategies for improvement

• Uses course/product design documents that are based on sound instructional design principles and which communicate to stakeholders the vision of a course/product

• Collaborates with content experts on updates and revisions to courses/products

• Performs web development tasks using fundamental web development technologies and popular web and elearning development tools

• Documents (often via the web) progress/status of assigned tasks for review by others

• Reports regularly to Project Managers and informs other team members on assignments and progress

• Provides accurate time and effort estimates on assigned tasks/projects

• Serves as Instructional Design Lead on projects involving more than one instructional designer

• Mentors Instructional Designers 1 on the fulfillment of their responsibilities

• Models use of the SLCC Online Learning Model(s) in their own instructional design practices/approaches

• Facilitates and/or participates in eLearning faculty credentials and other training resources or other events in areas of instructional design and instructional technology tools

• Designs eLearning faculty credentials and other training resources or other events in areas of instructional design and instructional technology tools

• Leads internal instructional design subgroups/committees when assigned

• Reviews work produced by Instructional Designers 1 and provides suggestions for improvement

• Remains current with and has a thorough understanding of technology tools and trends in online and higher education

• Remains current with learning theory and instructional design theory

• Completes other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Technology

• 3 - 6 years of experience

• Trade off 1:1 in experience/education requirement

• Master's Degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Technology

• Experience designing courses according to current accessibility guidelines

• Experience teaching in higher education