Instructional Designer

Job Summary

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 position is hybrid with some remote and in-office days each week.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities & Knowledge Skills & Abilities

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.

• 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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Education, or a related field
• Three (3) to six (6) years experience designing instructional materials for technology-enabled learning environments
• Trade off 1:1 in experience/education requirement

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Technology
• Experience designing courses to meet accessibility standards
• Experience teaching in higher education