Instructional Designer job

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

• 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 and 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 and content experts in a course/product 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 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, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Other duties as assigned.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties Continued Minimum Qualifications

• • Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Education, or a related field.
  • Two (2) to four (4) years experience designing instructional materials for technology-enabled learning environments.

• Master’s degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Education, or a related field.
• Zero (0) to two (2) years experience designing instructional materials for technology-enabled learning environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Education, or a related field.
• Preferred experience designing competency-based educational courses.
• Preferred experience teaching in higher education.

Knowledge, Skills & 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 diverse people, ability, culture, and ethnic background, to maintain good working relationships across the College.
• Ability to work with all groups in a diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic background of community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities.

Non-Essential Responsibilities and Duties

Special Instructions

• Full consideration will be given to applicants who apply on or before the priority review date indicated above.
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