Designer, Instructional

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote 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 our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.

• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:

Designer, Instructional

Job Description Summary:

To provide 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.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1) Manages instructional projects and related collegewide strategic initiatives from conception through implementation.
2) 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.
3) Develops and maintains software-based learning modules for instructional or training purposes.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) Maintains database regarding instructional design projects as well as other related files and records.
7) Provides assistance to faculty in technology tools and methods, use of instructional software, and effective uses of multimedia.
8) 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.
9) Facilitates curriculum development sessions, documents findings, and writes reports.
10) Conducts occupational analysis and develops job profiles working with business partners, internal subject matter experts, and other internal as well as external stakeholders.
11) Assures courses and projects meet accessibility standards.
12) Collaborates with others to measure effectiveness of course design and student learning.
13) May oversee peer review process.

Knowledge

* Research methodologies and techniques.
* Processes and standards for planning and implementing instructional design and development.
* Instructional technology media and materials development and implementation principles.
* Learning Theory.
* Instructional strategies, curriculum standards, and assessments.
* Occupational and competency analysis, methods, and procedures.
* Project management processes, methodologies, and techniques.

Skills

* Maintaining an established work schedule.
* Effect