Senior Instructional Designer

Overview

The Senior Instructional Designer plays a key role in assisting instructors and academic program directors with complex teaching and learning challenges in online courses. This position involves designing and developing high-quality training resources, on-demand materials, and leading live faculty workshops to promote innovative teaching practices. Drawing on a strong background in classroom pedagogy and higher education, the Senior Instructional Designer collaborates with faculty members and academic program directors to enhance and improve online academic courses across various disciplines.

 

In this role, the Senior Instructional Designer will oversee specific projects, coordinating the work of Instructional Designers and other team members involved. They will maintain a list of faculty members and the asynchronous online courses they teach, ensuring that each course is regularly updated and in line with Touro's standards for online education. Additionally, the Senior Instructional Designer will support faculty in creating top-tier content and utilizing high-impact engagement strategies that promote student success. They will also identify tools and resources that empower faculty to implement effective, engaging, and cutting-edge pedagogical approaches.

 

The successful candidate will be a proactive, vocal contributor in creative sessions, comfortable with rapid ideation and iterative feedback to drive project excellence.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

Course Development

• Design and build effective and measurable instructional materials for web-enhanced, hybrid, and online courses with defined outcomes
• Track course engagement and faculty presence in each course and manage performance throughout the semester
• Create a rich set of state-of-the-art training content for faculty and students across disciplines
• Work with designers, faculty, subject matter experts and online education team members to develop and adapt resources that meet departmental goals and objectives
• Develop plans for applying learning theory, educational practices and technology to specific learning or teaching problems
• Stay abreast of emerging instructional technologies and evolving standards in educational practice and design
• Design activities and professional development opportunities that support instruction
• Provide feedback for both online and on-campus course components
• Develop and delivering training in order to ensure the integration of technology into teaching and learning
• Use graphic design technologies to enhance the appearance of online courses
• Integrate multimedia approaches to course design and deliverables
• Identify relevant data points and success metrics around content engagement and learning that drive future course development
• Apply metrics and methods to evaluate the impact of online programs and courses
• Create assessment tools to collect data, analyze results, write reports, disseminate data, make recommendations to enhance curriculum and learning to administration and faculty

Faculty Development and Training

• Work with faculty to develop and implement new learning solutions
• Provide support to instructors in the creation and implementation of course material using the LMS, and online resources such as assignments, discussions, etc.
• Provide oversight to faculty on development of online environments and learning activities
• Serve as subject matter expert for designated workshop content
• Lead workshops live and provide support to faculty
• Assist faculty with the design, creation and delivery of online courses
• Help faculty to create videos to be used in online courses Project Responsibility
• Oversee project and program details
• Ensure that project requirements are met
• Meet project delivery deadlines
• Mentor members of project team
• Tracking project deliverables and communicating issues that may result in a delay

Qualifications

Education/Experience

• BS/BA required (Degree in Education or a core academic discipline preferred); MA in Instructional Design, Curriculum Development, Learning Science (Andragogy), or Education required; MEd is preferred; Ph.D. or Ed.D. is a plus.
• 5 to 7 years of post-college work experience in instructional design or a related field, including a strong professional background as a classroom teacher (K-12 or Post-Secondary).
• Instructional design and training experience (must provide samples of work) in a higher education environment, demonstrating an understanding of academic culture and faculty partnership.
• A consistent record of su