Director of Curriculum Design & AI Integration

Indiana Tech • Fort Wayne, IN

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About The Position

Indiana Tech is seeking a strategic, innovative, and collaborative leader to serve as its next Director of Curriculum Design & AI Integration. Reporting to the Executive Director of the AI Institute, this position provides leadership for curriculum design, instructional innovation, and AI integration across the university. The Director serves as the bridge between faculty ideas and implementation, transforming innovative pedagogical concepts into high-quality, AI-enabled learning experiences that advance student success and academic excellence. The Director of Curriculum Design & AI Integration is responsible for overseeing institution-wide curriculum design standards, structures, and processes, including AI literacy competencies and AI integration guidelines for courses and academic programs. This position works closely with faculty, academic leadership, instructional designers, and learning technologists to ensure that curriculum innovation aligns with institutional goals, accreditation requirements, and emerging best practices in teaching and learning. The successful candidate will lead the university’s curriculum redesign operation by supervising the Curriculum Project Manager as well as teams of Learning Designers and Learning Technologists. The Director will establish processes, workflows, professional-development pathways, and quality standards that support scalable course redesign and continuous instructional improvement across academic programs. Working closely with the AI Faculty Strategist, the Director will receive faculty-generated redesign initiatives and translate pedagogical goals into structured, resourced curriculum projects. This role will oversee the development, implementation, quality assurance, accessibility review, and AI-integration standards for redesigned courses before launch. The Director will also partner with academic deans, program chairs, and accreditation leaders to ensure curriculum initiatives advance program-level outcomes and institutional priorities. Additional responsibilities include monitoring emerging instructional design practices, evaluating innovations in AI-enabled learning, reporting redesign outcomes and curriculum metrics, and supporting strategic initiatives associated with the university’s AI Institute and AIHE grant activities.

Requirements

• Master's degree in instructional design, curriculum and instruction, educational technology, higher education, computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in instructional design, curriculum development, educational innovation, or higher education leadership.
• Strong understanding of curriculum development, instructional design principles, and the integration of artificial intelligence into teaching and learning environments.
• Experience leading instructional design initiatives and creating systems that support high-quality, scalable curriculum development.
• Demonstrated experience supervising instructional designers, learning technologists, or similar professional teams.
• Strong project-management, quality-assurance, organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate effectively with faculty and academic leaders across disciplines.
• Experience with learning management systems, course development platforms, and quality-review processes.
• Ability to translate educational goals into effective course designs while ensuring consistency, accessibility, and instructional quality across academic offerings.

Nice To Haves

• Doctoral degree in instructional design, curriculum and instruction, educational technology, higher education, artificial intelligence, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience integrating artificial intelligence or other emerging educational technologies into curriculum design and course development.
• Experience working with accreditation, assessment, academic quality-review processes, or program evaluation initiatives.
• Experience leading large-scale curriculum transformation initiatives.
• Developing instructional design standards.
• Establishing quality-assurance frameworks.
• Creating professional-development programs for instructional teams.
• Supporting grant-funded innovation projects.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing institution-wide curriculum design standards, structures, and processes, including AI literacy competencies and AI integration guidelines for courses and academic programs.
• Working closely with faculty, academic leadership, instructional designers, and learning technologists to ensure that curriculum innovation aligns with institutional goals, accreditation requirements, and emerging best practices in teaching and learning.
• Leading the university’s curriculum redesign operation by supervising the Curriculum Project Manager as well as teams of Learning Designers and Learning Technologists.
• Establishing processes, workflows, professional-development pathways, and quality standards that support scalable course redesign and continuous instructional improvement across academic programs.
• Translating pedagogical goals into structured, resourced curriculum projects.
• Overseeing the development, implementation, quality assurance, accessibility review, and AI-integration standards for redesigned courses before launch.
• Partnering with academic deans, program chairs, and accreditation leaders to ensure curriculum initiatives advance program-level outcomes and institutional priorities.
• Monitoring emerging instructional design practices.
• Evaluating innovations in AI-enabled learning.
• Reporting redesign outcomes and curriculum metrics.
• Supporting strategic initiatives associated with the university’s AI Institute and AIHE grant activities.

Benefits

• Opportunity to influence the future of teaching and learning at Indiana Tech.
• Opportunity to shape how artificial intelligence is incorporated into academic programs.
• Opportunity to create scalable processes that support instructional excellence.
• Opportunity to develop innovative learning experiences that prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.
• Opportunity to shape the future of curriculum innovation.
• Opportunity to influence teaching and learning across the university.
• Opportunity to help position Indiana Tech as a leader in responsible AI-enhanced education.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director