Instructional Designer Specialist II

About The Role

Nightingale College is seeking a Specialist II, Instructional Design to help shape the learning experiences that prepare our nursing and healthcare learners for real-world, career-ready success. In this role, you'll design, refine, and implement learning products across our curriculum and EvolvEd course offerings — partnering closely with fellow Instructional Design Specialists (I and III) and subject matter experts to build courses that are compliant, evidence-based, and genuinely engaging.

You'll sit at the intersection of instructional science and healthcare education, translating complex nursing and healthcare content into learning experiences that work — whether instructor-led, e-learning, or blended. You'll help ensure our programs meet federal, state, and Nightingale College standards while staying current with emerging trends in online teaching and learning.

What You'll Do

• Perform cause, knowledge, or gap analyses to determine the right learning delivery approach
• Develop course guides for curriculum and EvolvEd courses to support facilitation
• Select the instructional design method, media, and facilitation style best suited to each organizational intervention
• Build supportive materials that enhance performance improvement strategies
• Align new and existing course content with optimal instructional methods (instructor-led, e-learning, blended)
• Stay current on nursing and healthcare curriculum/professional development research and online learning trends
• Design and execute online course assembly, creation, and packaging within the LMS and authoring tools, partnering with internal and external subject matter experts
• Develop and refine tests, scoring guides, and curriculum
• Map course topics, objectives, and assignments into program designs to demonstrate standards are met and assessment is achievable
• Liaise with Nightingale Education Group committees as needed
• Participate in cross-functional projects as they arise
• Devise new processes — or refine existing ones — to optimize training development
• Perform other duties as assigned

What You Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree from an accredited institution in Learning Science, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Assessment, Learning Design, Curriculum Design, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience designing learning technology, software, or learning environments
• 2+ years of experience developing courses in an LMS and authoring tools
• Demonstrated experience designing assessments within distance learning experiences
• Demonstrated understanding of concept-based, competency-based, project-based, and other learning design models
• Demonstrated experience contributing to learning design systems with numerous stakeholders and requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years gathering and applying peer-reviewed scholarly research and user research
• Experience in Nursing/Allied Health/Health Sciences Education
• Experience in micro-credentialing

Why Nightingale

At Nightingale, we don't just build courses — we build a relevantly skilled, readily available, and representative nursing workforce for communities across the country. As a Specialist II, Instructional Design, your work directly shapes how future nurses learn, think, and grow into confident clinicians. You'll join a high-impact community grounded in Evolvitude, innovative design, and collaboration — where good ideas are welcomed from every seat at the table.

Budgeted Hiring Range

$76,000—$82,000 USD

All new hires are required to attend New Collaborator Orientation (NCO) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The College will cover travel, lodging, and other accommodations.

Nightingale's commitment to diversity and inclusion is reflected both in our learners and collaborators because we believe the best outcomes for learners from underserved and diverse populations are achieved through collaborators with similar backgrounds and cultures. Nightingale Education Group is an equal opportunity employer.

Our Mission (not just words on the wall, we live it, love it, and daily contribute to it) : With the primary focus on higher learning in healthcare professions, Nightingale Education Group contributes to elevating education, health, and employment systems through facilitation of academic achievement, personal growth, and professional development of its learners, alumni, and collaborators, while serving diverse communities.

At Nightingale Education Group, our Innovative Education model helps transform rural health landscapes through our blended-distance learning platform. Every person involved with Nightingale Education Group helps to change the lives of our learners, our communities, and ultimately the world by adding to the quality of healthcare. We are proud to have graduated nearly 5,000 nurses serving communities in need. We are serious about our outcomes and have a little bit of fun getting there.

The professional and personal development of our learners and our collaborators is our company's foundation. Not only do we develop strategies that promote a positive work-life integration, but we also create an environment that invites you to become an expert in your field, be it through higher education or professional development. Put simply, we elevate employment, elevate health, and elevate education. We're so happy that you've found us!

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screen.