Instructional Designer
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Instructional Designer creating accessible, interactive online courses for Sonoran Desert Institute, a DEAC-accredited distance-education school. Collaborating on course design, assessments, multimedia, Canvas development, and quality assurance.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to analyze learning needs and identify appropriate learning objectives and student outcomes for new and revised distance learning courses
- Create course and program documentation, including course blueprints, course and program design documents, project plans, curriculum maps, and other documents
- Identify and secure digital textbooks and other student resources
- Identify, storyboard, and script video or other multimedia resources
- Apply instructional design principles, adult learning theories, and accessibility standards to create student-centered content
- Design and develop engaging and interactive online course materials, including multimedia elements, authentic assessments, exams, discussions, and other instructional activities
- Develop course shells, syllabi, home pages, modules, interactives, and lessons in Canvas using course-authoring software
- Source and secure licenses for external media, citing resources appropriately
- Assist with and/or support the Academic Quality Assurance process
- Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in instructional design and distance education
- Assist in troubleshooting and resolving faculty and student course access and functionality issues
- Participate in team meetings, training sessions, and professional development opportunities
- Collaborate with Curriculum Staff to develop, update, and publish standard operating procedures
- Perform other work as assigned
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instructional Design or a related subject
- If college degree is in a subject other than curriculum and instructional design, a certificate or other evidence of formal training in instructional design, eLearning, or a related subject, at least equivalent to 16-credit hours (720 clock hours) of education is required
- Minimum three years of professional experience in instructional design
- Minimum of one year of professional instructional design experience at a higher education institution
- Advanced knowledge of adult learning principles and distance instruction
- Practical experience with learning management systems and course-authoring software
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills with the ability to independently follow through to successful completion of projects within a deadline
- Some travel required (up to 10%)
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
- Employment visa sponsorship is unavailable
Benefits:
- Highly competitive compensation
- Award winning culture
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Comprehensive benefits package
- 100% company-paid medical option for employee
- 401(k) with generous company match
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Pet Insurance
- Company-paid Life insurance
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, and Volunteer time off!)
- 14 Paid holidays
- Referral program
- Education Tuition Benefit program
- Career development opportunities with a growing company
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