Associate Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA
About The Position
The Associate Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA helps develop instructional materials for McGraw Hill’s K-12 literacy programs in print and digital formats. The role works collaboratively with Instructional Designers and teams focused on content, product management, UX, and creative media to create digital tools, curriculum, and learning solutions. It is responsible for assembling high-quality content according to product requirements. This is a remote Project Status Worker (PSW) position with an end date of 08/31/2027. The role contributes to product development and build phases under senior team leadership, including digital asset development, accessibility, documentation, quality assurance, and cross-functional coordination.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or a related field.
- 0–2 years of experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
- Experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
- Ability to visualize and create animated and interactive content.
- Familiarity with Agile methodology and practices, including collaboration in iterative workflows.
Nice To Haves
- Previous 6–12 teaching experience.
Responsibilities
- Learn and apply design principles, backwards design, and design thinking concepts in routine situations.
- Contribute to concept meetings, prepare manuscript needs, and support build rounds for digital assets.
- Partner with Instructional Designers during product development and contribute to build phases under senior team leadership.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date build documentation to support project integrity.
- Contribute substantially to accessibility throughout the product development process.
- Contribute substantially to the product build process.
- Meet intermediate and final schedules.
- Work with cross-functional teams to meet product requirements, project schedules, and product goals on time.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements in authoring tools and the platform; help define requirements for enhancements when necessary.
- Complete digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
- Perform quality assurance on vendor work to ensure it follows guidelines.
- Stay informed about developments and trends in position-related areas and apply specialized knowledge to achieve results.
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Career Level
Entry Level
