Instructional Designer I or II

Texas A&M • College Station, TX

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Texas A&M Engineering is recruiting an Instructional Designer at level I or II. The level and compensation will be determined during recruitment based on the candidate’s qualifications. The position partners with faculty and subject matter experts to design, develop, revise, and evaluate classroom, hybrid, and online learning experiences. It serves as a learner-centered consulting partner, helping faculty translate instructional goals and teaching philosophies into clear, engaging, accessible, and effective courses, while offering evidence-informed design options suited to the learners, discipline, content, and instructional setting.

The Instructional Designer plans, develops, reviews, and edits digitally accessible instructional content, including documents, videos, and assessments. The role applies instructional design principles, course-quality standards, accessibility practices, and project-management methods throughout course development. It also supports production work, instructional assistants, faculty use of recording technologies, and evaluation of emerging instructional technologies and practices, including AI.

This is an on-site position at the Main Campus in College Station, Texas. The Instructional Designer I requires a relevant bachelor’s degree and no experience. The Instructional Designer II requires a relevant bachelor’s degree and two years of related professional experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Design, Education, Educational Technology, Learning Sciences, or a related field.
• For Instructional Designer I: no experience required.
• For Instructional Designer II: two years of related experience in instructional design, course development, educational technology, teaching and learning, or comparable professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with faculty and subject matter experts to design, develop, revise, and evaluate classroom, hybrid, and online courses and instructional materials.
• Learn faculty teaching priorities and help translate them into effective learning experiences while preserving instructors’ teaching philosophies, disciplinary expertise, and voices.
• Offer instructional design alternatives appropriate to course goals, learner needs, and instructional context, and explain their connection to evidence-informed practices.
• Analyze and organize course content into logical concepts, processes, tasks, decisions, prerequisites, and learning sequences; identify gaps, redundancies, assumptions, dependencies, and possible learner confusion.
• Help distinguish the knowledge learners need to acquire from the tasks they need to perform and decisions or judgments they need to make.
• Develop or recommend assessment approaches aligned with intended learning, including assessment type, placement, feedback opportunities, and frequency.
• Maintain alignment among learning objectives, content, activities, practice, and assessments.
• Apply learner-centered design and digital accessibility practices; review and help create materials consistent with applicable ADA requirements and WCAG standards.
• Use established course-quality rubrics and frameworks to review course materials and identify improvement opportunities.
• Participate in or lead course-design consultations, design reviews, and development meetings; prepare and maintain course outlines, design documents, production plans, storyboards, scripts, and other project documentation.
• Apply instructional design processes, including ADDIE and SAM, and use iterative development to refine materials based on faculty, learner, and stakeholder feedback.
• Coordinate course-development projects by tracking progress, communicating updates, establishing priorities and timelines as appropriate, and coordinating with faculty, SMEs, and production partners.
• Support or coordinate the production of accessible videos, documents, and assessments, including editing, captioning, and accessibility implementation.
• Work with learning management systems and apply knowledge of video editing and multimedia production to support course development.
• Guide and support instructional assistants on course-production tasks by communicating requirements, demonstrating processes, reviewing completed work, and providing constructive feedback.
• Research and evaluate emerging instructional technologies and practices, including AI, for instructional design and course-building efforts.
• Demonstrate video recording studio processes and assist or train faculty in the appropriate use of lecture recording technologies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive medical insurance and prescription coverage.
• Vision, dental, life, and long-term disability insurance options.
• Defined benefit retirement plan through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), with an 8.25% employer contribution.
• Additional voluntary retirement programs: 403(b) Tax Deferred Account and 457(b) Deferred Compensation Program.
• Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses.
• Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning and professional development opportunities.
• Tuition assistance and educational release time.
• Engineer Your Wellness health and fitness programs.
• Wellness release time to promote work-life balance.

What This Job Offers

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