Part Time Instructional Design - 83080

Job Description

Job Description

Founded in 1986, St. Charles Community College (SCC) has a reputation as one of the best two-year colleges in the state of Missouri. SCC's service area includes a six-county region with a population exceeding 540,000. SCC's main campus, located in Cottleville, has won architectural awards for its innovative, contemporary design. The college's Dardenne Creek Campus features the Center for Healthy Living and the Field to Table Institute. The Innovation West Campus located in Wentzville features the Regional Workforce Innovation Center. With a focus on innovation, St. Charles Community College is a leader in delivering high-quality education in a state-of-the-art learning environment. The success of SCC is rooted in the mission of serving the community by "focusing on academic excellence, student success, workforce advancement, and life-long learning within a global society."

SCC is seeking a Part time Instructional Designer who will research, inform and provide professional development and innovate teaching and technology approaches, tools, and processes.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Instructional and Learning Experience Design and Development

• Work with faculty and staff in any teaching modality, including online, technology-enabled, hybrid, remote, and flex
• Analyze, design, and develop content, activities, assessments, courses, and processes for multiple modalities through the appropriate blend of pedagogy and technology based on learning theory, instructional design practices, and quality assurance rubrics.
• Provide consultations and serve as a resource to faculty and staff on the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of learning outcomes, course modality, high-impact learning practices, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), accessibility issues and remediation, content creation, effective assessment strategies, and other instructional design, learning experience, and/or technology concerns.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure course quality by performing quality assurance reviews and recommending revisions in accordance with the expected learning outcomes, best practices or other standards, and quality assurance rubrics.
• Develop and implement measurement and evaluation strategies to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of learning solutions on performance.
• Consult on and monitor fair use and copyright; regular, substantive interaction; and accessibility in digital environments.

Emerging Technology

• Demonstrate a strong foundation and curiosity for technology and applications in an educational environment.
• Discern which technologies and tools are best suited for different specific educational and business use cases.
• Demonstrate advanced computing and technology skills and efficiency utilizing complex computing applications.

Communication, Collaboration, and Work Habits

• Demonstrate advanced written, presentation, and training skills to nurture collaboration and knowledge sharing practices with the ability to explain complex technological concepts in an accessible manner to any audience.
• Write concise, creative, and effective instruction.
• Crosstrain to ensure continuity of services.
• Collaborate with external partners and other departments on projects, institutional initiatives, and committee work.
• Work independently with minimum direction; take projects successfully from concept to implementation and provide progress reporting.
• Ability to follow up, follow through, multi-task, set priorities, and adhere to deadlines.
• Ensure final project deliverables are of the highest quality.
• Contribute to the overall success of the Department of Online & E-Learning by performing all other duties as assigned.

Minimum Knowledge and Experience

• Master's degree or equivalent in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, or other relevant field with three or more year's related experience is required.
• A Doctorate degree in a related field with at least one year experience will be considered.
• Two or more years of online or hybrid teaching is strongly preferred.
• Must be able to consult and monitor fair use and copyright in digital environments.
• Must be proficient with: Microsoft Office; building courses in a Learning Management System (LMS) using 3rd party web tools, Social Media applications, and publisher provided digital content that is integrated in or used with an LMS; developing online multimedia materials; and utilizing HTML/CSS.
• Experience with the following applications strongly preferred: Canvas, Respondus, Adobe Creative Suite, ARC, Camtasia, iSpring, and Snagit.

This is a part-time position. Please include cover letter with application.

**Will be subject to a criminal background check.

St. Charles Community College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.