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Instructional Designer - VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education

Employer
Virginia Commonwealth University
Location
Virginia, United States
Salary
Salary Not Specified
Date posted
Sep 27, 2022


Summary

The position is an Instructional Designer (AA Instructional Design Specialist) for VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education. Instructional Designers collaborate with faculty and colleagues to develop high-quality online, blended, and hybrid courses based on pedagogical best practices. These collaborations may be individual consultations relating to instructional design, larger programmatic efforts working with groups, and/or faculty development opportunities to enhance course design, facilitation, evaluation, and administration.

These engagements support the design or redesign of course components such as:
  • Develop the online course environment
  • Creation of learning objects, activities, and course content
  • Design of formative and summative assessment
  • Integration of appropriate learning technologies
  • Strategies for content delivery and engagement
  • Guidance in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance
Instructional Designers exercise professional judgment in:
  • Maintaining confidentiality in consultation work with faculty members, departments, and schools
  • Supporting the Instructional Design team in order to meet course design goals and faculty needs in a timely manner
  • Build quality course materials and components to align with VCU Quality standards
  • Other duties may be assigned in response to the unit’s needs
ORP Eligibility - Yes

Minimum Hiring Standards
  • Bachelor’s degree in instructional design or other education-related field
  • Minimum two (2) years of experience designing and building courses for online or hybrid delivery
  • Demonstrated experience with a learning management system (LMS) and a range of learning technologies
  • Demonstrated experience designing and creating online resources for instructors
  • Ability to adapt and solve problems proactively and independently
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and teaming skills
  • Proven ability to work as a contributing and collegial member of a team, and to communicate proactively within the team environment
  • Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a member of the VCU community
  • Proven time management skills
Preferred Hiring Standards
  • Advanced degree in a discipline such as instructional design, learning technologies, curriculum and instruction, adult learning, or a related field
  • Experience using Canvas in a higher education environment
Job Specific Physical and Cognitive Requirements

Essential physical functions: Walking, Sitting, Repetitive motion, Average to fast paced, Ability to respond to multiple stimuli
Essential cognitive functions: Memory, Reasoning, Analyzing, Hearing, Logic, Reading, Written communication, Verbal communication

Salary Range: Up to $60,000

Position Details:

Department: VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education
Employment Type: UF - University Employee FT
Restricted Status: No
FTE: 1
Exemption Status: Exempt





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