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

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• 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.
• Affirms and influences the practices of faculty & content experts in a course/product in order to enhance instruction.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Technology.
• 3 - 6 years of experience.
• Trade off 1:1 in experience/education requirement.
• Preferred Qualifications: Master’s Degree in Instructional Design or Instructional Technology.
• Experience designing courses according to current accessibility guidelines.
• Experience teaching in higher education.