Instructional Design Senior Specialist

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Job Title:

Instructional Design Senior Specialist

Department:

Arts and Sciences | Distance Education

The Instructional Design Senior Specialist will initiate and complete instructional design/development processes as part of the Unite to Read Project (URP) a public humanities project responding to book bans. They will perform job duties with a high level of autonomy, proficiency in work, and resource prioritization, including planning and managing instructional design tasks from initiation to successful completion. These tasks include establishing and maintaining a public project website, establishing and maintaining a URP online platform (through Scarlet) to support participants and project partners in sharing and accessing resources for project efforts. This will include archiving, ensuring accessibility, and establishing shareable links for event recordings and resources. The Instructional Design Senior Specialist will also oversee undergraduate and graduate assistants’ material creation efforts. They will be using university approved educational technology tools and may train others in their use, including but not limited to Canvas, Scarlet, PebblePad, and Zoom. Using these tools, they will create, and train others in creating, multimedia materials to support learning and represent project outcomes through narrated presentations, screencasts, animated GIFs, data visualizations, infographics, course graphics, and explainer and animation videos. They will support networking and engaging with the project team and partners to establish workflows for materials creation, management, and dissemination to partner organizations to support the sustainability of project efforts. 

In addition to instructional design duties, the Instructional Design Senior Specialist will also assist the project director in planning, data gathering, reporting and fiscal management of the grant. They will process payment of stipends to event participants and consultants, manage documentation of grant activities for the Mellon Foundation, and participate in project team meetings to record minutes, track tasks completed, and tasks that need to be completed. They will work with the project team to organize virtual events, and plan trainings, and they will establish and maintain a project calendar and schedule meetings and events. They will also create applications for project positions and manage application materials. The Senior Specialist will format and distribute a Unite to Read Project newsletter with content contributed by the project team. They will monitor project emails and manage correspondence with applicants, partner organizations, and participants. They will also offer consultations and support, following Arts and Sciences Office of Distance Education model, for Arts and Sciences grants to incorporate digital tools, public-facing resources and online learning. They will participate in continuing professional training in instructional design, technology enable teaching and learning and contribute to electronic learning development projects to support Arts and Sciences Office of Distance Education in their mission and may provide support and initial grant management guidance to faculty and staff in Arts and Humanities departments. They will perform other duties as assigned. 

Required: Bachelor's Level Degree with a major in education or a related field and demonstrated experience with core instructional design areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience to demonstrate comparable expertise.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of four years