Learning Innovation Designer (Instructional Design)
About The Position
The Learning Innovation Designer creates and delivers university-level course content for graduate degree programs. Working within a collaborative digital learning and design team, the role supports teaching and learning innovation through instructional design for blended and online learning, media production, simulation design, interprofessional educational experiences, and the integration of health science technologies. The position ensures the integrity and quality of the final learning products and partners with faculty by providing thought leadership, mentoring, and support. Course and student experiences are expected to reflect institutional quality standards, brand promise, vision, and mission. This hybrid position is based at one of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences campuses in San Marcos, Austin, Miami, or St. Augustine, and requires at least three days per week on campus. The work is primarily in a standard office environment and may include periodic travel.
Requirements
- At least five years of online course design, curriculum development, or related experience in a higher education environment.
- Master's degree in the field of expertise.
- At least three years of experience using a learning management system such as Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, or Canvas.
- Fluency with e-learning content development tools such as Articulate 360, Adobe Creative Cloud, Kaltura, Panopto, or Camtasia to create instructional media, including interactive presentations, video, and multimedia.
- Provide work samples or a portfolio for review during the interview process.
- Demonstrated collaboration, resilience, trustworthiness, results orientation, innovation, customer focus, communication, time and project management, and attention to detail.
Nice To Haves
- Seven or more years of online course design, curriculum development, or related higher education experience.
- A terminal degree in instructional design, education, curriculum development, or teaching and learning.
- Five or more years of learning management system experience; Blackboard is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of ADA accessibility requirements (Sections 504 and 508), digital copyright laws, and implementation standards such as WCAG 2.1.
- Experience with Quality Matters; peer or master reviewer certification is preferred.
- Experience training, mentoring, or teaching others.
Responsibilities
- Provide customer service to faculty and stakeholders to support effective use of teaching and learning technology.
- Lead faculty, in collaboration with academic leadership, in developing course outcomes, objectives, and curricula for all course modalities; help faculty understand program objectives, instructional models, and positioning for target audiences and markets.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts and stakeholders to edit, write, and design instructional content suited to the target audience and institutional learning models and best practices.
- Manage course blueprints, scope and sequence, and media planner documents that define course objectives and support digital content development.
- Build and maintain master courses, ensuring materials, activities, and assessments align with learning outcomes and the needs of diverse students.
- Plan, design, and develop instructional media; coordinate production, approvals, budgets, schedules, vendors, final media elements, and integration into online courses while meeting accessibility and quality standards.
- Build course components in the learning management system and ensure courses meet or exceed quality assurance standards for navigation, technical functionality, proofreading, and editing.
- Facilitate decisions that account for budgets, timelines, and resources; identify potential problems and solutions to ensure timely, on-budget course development that meets quality standards.
- Oversee the quality of work performed by external vendors, including contract instructional designers.
- Help develop standard processes across the course-development domain team.
- Oversee special projects as assigned.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as management may require.
- Travel periodically as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
