Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA
About The Position
McGraw Hill, a leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is seeking an Instructional Designer for their K-12 division literacy programs. This fully remote position, based in the United States, is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 8/31/2027. The Instructional Designer will be a key member of a collaborative team, working closely with content, product management, UX, and creative media teams to develop digital tools, curriculum, and learning solutions. The role requires expertise in digital content and curriculum for Literacy programs, ensuring the assembly of high-quality content that meets specific product requirements.
Requirements
- 1-3 years’ experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or related field required.
- Experience working with Spanish-language materials; prior experience as a Spanish, ESL, SLA, or dual-language teacher is a plus.
- A successful candidate may have previous K-5 teaching experience.
- Bilingual recommended, Spanish desired.
- Experience managing multiple projects within tight deliverables and budgets.
- Strong ability to communicate.
- Some experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
- Some ability to create and visualize animated and interactive content.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to specific early product workstreams, under the direction of management and senior members of the team.
- Contribute to the Implementation Model, Journey Maps, and course maps.
- Contribute heavily in regard to the creation of POC’s and prototypes.
- Design, storyboard, and develop digital curriculum assets such as videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, games and virtual labs through a UBD process.
- Contribute to concept meetings, review manuscript, create storyboards, contribute during alpha and beta builds for digital assets.
- Provide heavy contributions with digital tools, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
- Provide strong contributions with user testing, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
- Provide informal product training to associate instructional designers.
- Be experts in accessibility with strong contributions to this area throughout the product development process.
- Provide strong contributions to the product build process.
- Manage AD vendors and freelancers writing guidelines, answering questions, scheduling and leading weekly vendor status meetings.
- Lead approved workflows at all stages and meet all intermediate and final schedules.
- Contribute on cross-functional teams to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met and on completed on time.
- Lead during digital launches with vendors including helping to create templates, trackers, and digital content development guidelines.
- Identify and suggest digital solutions for issues that arise during development.
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements as they arise in authoring tools and the platform.
- When necessary, help define requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements.
- Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
- QA the work of the vendor to ensure it adheres to guidelines.
Benefits
- Medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
