Designer, Instructional

About the role

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution serving a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. The college promotes student success and community development by providing affordable access through traditional and distance learning modes to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in its service area. The Instructional Designer position provides consultation, project management, and support services in instructional strategies, design, content creation, use of various communication modes (e.g., websites, video, audio), assessment, and technology in the development of curricula for higher educational learning.

Responsibilities

• Manages instructional projects and related collegewide strategic initiatives from conception through implementation.
• Consults with faculty on instructional design, strategies, and learning objectives; makes recommendations on enhancing instructional materials and deliveries to ensure students have an opportunity to interact and apply learning outcomes as well as increase the success and retention of students; assists in the development of course materials, assessment techniques, appropriate integration of instructional technologies, and best practices.
• Develops and maintains software-based learning modules for instructional or training purposes.
• Designs, develops, and delivers workshops and training to faculty in the use of instructional technologies and educational best practices; provides ongoing faculty training and support in technology tools and educational applications.
• Designs and produces learning materials in a variety of formats including print, graphics, audio, video, animation, and multimedia to support teaching, learning, and college information needs.
• Maintains database regarding instructional design projects as well as other related files and records.
• Provides assistance to faculty in technology tools and methods, use of instructional software, and effective uses of multimedia.
• Researches and makes recommendations on educational best practices, instructional resources, instructional technologies, and multimedia hardware/software to support teaching and learning addressing copyright concerns and ADA compliance issues.
• Facilitates curriculum development sessions, documents findings, and writes reports.
• Conducts occupational analysis and develops job profiles working with business partners, internal subject matter experts, and other internal as well as external stakeholders.
• Assures courses and projects meet accessibility standards.
• Collaborates with others to measure effectiveness of course design and student learning.
• May oversee peer review process.

Requirements

• Two years related work experience.
• Master's degree.
• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Project management and efficient use of resources.
• Researching and analyzing complex information.
• Making recommendations that impact the budget.
• Physical requirements: work performed in a standard office or similar environment; subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling; occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.
• Safety: work safely and follow safety rules; report unsafe working conditions and behavior; take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Qualifications

• Preferred education: Doctorate in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Education, or related field.
• Other preferred qualifications: use a variety of software such as Adobe Acrobat Pro, Articulate, Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite; use webpage editors (Google Sites, Wordpress, and Adobe Web development tools), graphic software, and CSS; use course management tools such as Blackboard and learning tools such as Respondus