Senior Instructional Designer, Dual Literacy (ELA/SLA)

McGraw Hill LLC.•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

2d•Remote

About The Position

McGraw Hill is seeking a Senior Instructional Designer, Dual Literacy (ELA/SLA) for its K-12 literacy programs. This remote position may also be based in a McGraw Hill office and is open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. It is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 12/31/2027. The Senior Instructional Designer is a digital-savvy content and curriculum expert responsible for assembling high-quality content for Dual Literacy programs delivered in print and digital formats. The role works collaboratively with instructional designers and teams focused on content, product management, user experience, and creative media to develop curriculum, digital tools, and learning solutions. The position contributes to product development and quality control, internal workflow documentation, accessibility, curriculum mapping, vendor oversight, course-map development, prototyping, user testing, and platform and authoring-tool improvements. It also mentors instructional designers, manages multiple workstreams, and helps address risks and delivery challenges.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or a related field.
At least 4 years of experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
Experience managing multiple projects within tight deliverables and budgets.
Strong communication skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity and influence trade-off decisions across scope, quality, time, and resources.
Experience designing digital platforms and creating learning experiences with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
Solution-oriented mindset focused on practical, effective problem-solving.
Curiosity about emerging technologies, including AI, and their application to instructional design and content development.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Spanish-language materials.
Prior experience as a Spanish, ESL, SLA, or dual-language teacher.
Previous K-5 teaching experience.

Responsibilities

Collaborate cross-functionally to solve complex problems and design conceptual solutions for multiple components; participate in collaboration workshops, remove barriers across delivery teams, and advise leadership on workflow improvements.
Contribute to the product build process, including quality control of English- and Spanish-language digital assets, and advise leadership on workflow and team-capacity improvements.
Create, finalize, and maintain internal documentation for digital workflows, best practices, and instructional guidelines; identify workflow efficiencies.
Complete digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, script go-bys, and digital editing.
Train and mentor instructional designers and new team members by modeling best practices in digital tools, content authoring, and workflows.
Champion accessibility standards and help ensure quality and compliance expectations are met throughout product development.
Contribute to cross-functional discussions, program planning, and curriculum mapping within an Agile framework to meet product requirements, schedules, and goals.
Serve as the primary point of contact for vendor and freelancer teams, providing oversight and training; manage digital launches by developing guidelines, launching work, and ensuring deliverables meet expectations.
Contribute to implementation models and journey maps; lead course-map development; create proofs of concept and high-fidelity prototypes using design principles and backward design for complex or ambiguous situations.
Support user testing by interpreting results and making strategic recommendations under management leadership.
Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, and follow up on technical issues in authoring tools and the platform; define and document requirements for platform and authoring-tool enhancements.
Identify, pilot, and scale novel digital solutions for issues arising during development.
Proactively identify risks and challenges across multiple workstreams, develop contingency plans, negotiate trade-offs among competing priorities, and communicate proposed solutions to leadership.