Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA

Overview

Build the Future

At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide from kindergarten through graduate school. Our goal is to accelerate student success through intuitive and effective learning tools and content that maximize a teacher's time and a student's learning experience. We do all of this in a supportive, collaborative environment where you can grow your career in a way that fits into your life.

How can you make an impact?
McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is looking for an Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA for our K-12 division literacy programs.

This position is fully remote based in the United States. This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) position with an end date of 8/31/2027. Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

You will be a valuable member of a collaborative group of Instructional Designers, closely partnering with teams focused on content, product management, UX, and creative media. As part of this team, you will create robust digital tools,curriculumand learning solutions in a variety of formats that are used by millions of educators and students every day. Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA is a digital savvy content and curriculum expert, responsible and accountable for assembling high-quality content based on specific product requirements for theLiteracy programs.

What you will be doing:

• Contribute to specific early product workstreams, under the direction of management and senior members of the team.
• Contribute to the Implementation Model, Journey Maps, and course maps. Contribute heavily in regard to the creation of POC's and prototypes.
• Through a UBD process, you will design, storyboard, anddevelop digital curriculum assets such as videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, gamesand virtual labs.
• Contribute to concept meetings, review manuscript, create storyboards, contribute during alpha and beta builds for digital assets.
• Provide heavy contributions with digital tools, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
• Strong contributions with user testing, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
• Provide informal product training to associate instructional designers.
• Be experts in accessibility with strong contributions to this area throughout the product development process.
• Strong contributions to the product build process.
• Manage AD vendors and freelancers writing guidelines, answering questions,schedulingand leading weekly vendor statusmeetings.
• Leadapproved workflows at all stages and meet all intermediate and final schedules.
• Contributeon cross-functional teams to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are metand on completed on time.
• Leadduring digital launches with vendors including helping to create templates, trackers, and digital content development guidelines.
• Identifyand suggest digital solutions for issues that arise during development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members toidentify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements as they arise in authoring tools and the platform. When necessary, help define requirements for platform and authoring toolenhancements.
• Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
• QA the work of the vendor to ensure it adheres toguidelines.

What you bring:

• 1 - 3years' experienceworking in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
• Bachelor'sorMaster'sdegree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or related fieldrequired.
• Experience working with Spanish-language materials; prior experience as a Spanish, ESL, SLA, or dual-language teacher is a plus. A successful candidate may have previous K-5 teaching experience
• Bilingual recommended, Spanish desired.
• Experience managing multiple projects within tight deliverables and budgets.
• Strong ability to communicate.
• Some experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
• Some ability to create and visualize animated and interactive content.

Here's what we offer:
The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively building experiences that will help shape the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.

The pay range for this position is between $52,000-$65,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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