Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA

McGraw Hill LLC.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

14h•Remote

About The Position

As an Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA, you will join a collaborative group of Instructional Designers and partner closely with content, product management, and creative media teams. You will create digital tools, curriculum, and learning solutions in a variety of formats for educators and students, assembling high-quality content for McGraw Hill Literacy programs according to product requirements. This is a remote Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 08/31/2027. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

Requirements

2–4 years of experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or a related field.
Experience working on multiple projects with tight deliverables and budgets.
Familiarity with Agile methodology and practices, including collaboration in iterative workflows.
Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
Experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
Ability to visualize and create animated and interactive content.

Nice To Haves

Previous 6–12 teaching experience.

Responsibilities

Contribute to product workstreams under the direction of management and senior team members.
Use a UBD process to design, storyboard, and build digital courses and lessons that enhance content provided by subject matter experts.
Apply design principles, backwards design, and design thinking to novel situations.
Contribute to concept meetings, review manuscripts, create storyboards, and support build rounds for digital assets.
Provide informal product and workflow training to associate instructional designers.
Develop novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers, experimenting with new approaches to work problems and opportunities.
Contribute accessibility expertise throughout the product development process.
Work within an Agile framework using iterative workflows and collaborative practices to support project execution and continuous improvement.
Support vendors and freelancers by providing guidelines and answering questions.
Lead approved workflows through all stages and meet intermediate and final schedules.
Contribute to cross-functional teams to ensure product requirements, project schedules, and goals are met 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 enhancement requirements when necessary.
Perform digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and applying errata edits.
Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to advance instructional design practices and curriculum solutions.