University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus 

Department: The Care Collaborative

Job Title: Senior Instructional Designer

Position #: 00846682 – Requisition #:39579

Job Summary:

The Care Collaborative Instructional Design Senior Professional position will provide support for instructional and curriculum design duties for ECHO Colorado and eConsult activities. Working in close partnership with the Instructional Design Program Manager and other team members, this position contributes subject-matter expertise in adult learning science, curriculum design, and educational technology to support the development of ECHO series, eConsult educational resources, and other professional development initiatives. Therefore, this position requires instructional and curricular design domain expertise in order to translate complex clinical and public health topics into effective, evidence-based learning experiences that align with the needs of diverse healthcare audiences.

This position is currently remote and works collaboratively with leadership at The Care Collaborative to identify educational topics and audiences. This position is responsible for aligning curriculum with learner needs, training those in the facilitator and presenter roles, building relationships among those who have expertise, designing innovative and rich learning experiences, and securing the connection between the development and evaluation phases of the ECHO series. This position responds to leadership team requests for literature reviews, market scans, and other evidence-building activities to drive strategic decision-making and tactical approach. Furthermore, this position is responsible for proactively driving and overseeing such activities under their specific area of expertise (curriculum and instructional design).

Key Responsibilities:

Instructional Design, Curriculum Development, and Faculty Support

• Provides theoretical and evidence-based grounds for the evolving ECHO educational model and eConsult educational materials.

• Leads the instructional design and curriculum development process for The Care Collaborative educational programs, including synchronous ECHO series, asynchronous learning modules, and eConsult educational resources.

• Designs innovative and engaging learning experiences that support healthcare workforce development across diverse clinical and community-based audiences.

• Works to ensure high-quality presentations by creating guidelines, instructive materials, and coaching sessions.

• Develops training tools and provides coaching to train facilitators in the art of online facilitation.

• Counsels ECHO Colorado partners to appropriately choose facilitators and experts based on the scope of the session roles.

• Collaborates with subject matter experts (SMEs), clinical faculty, and partner organizations to translate complex healthcare and public health topics into structured, outcome-based curricula aligned with adult learning principles.

• Researches innovative ideas and solutions to be applied in ECHO’s virtual, collaborative educational sessions, which cover several unique health topics targeting a wide variety of health-worker audiences annually.

• Collaborates with SMEs to define the parameters of the educational intervention and to identify the