Creative Analyst: Instructional Designer

Stride K12 - Nashville, TN

Full-time

Nashville, TN

Educational Services

About the position

The Instructional Designer (ID) at Stride is responsible for creating engaging and effective educational content that meets the learning objectives for teachers and school leaders. This role involves designing bite-sized courses, modular lessons, and downloadable assets while adhering to instructional design principles and the company's style guidelines. The ID collaborates with subject matter experts and the design team to ensure quality and consistency in the learning materials, leveraging technology to enhance the learning experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops and revises storyboards, assessments, and hands-on activities in collaboration with subject matter experts and/or other members of the design team.
• Creates a plan of action when presenting ideas for inclusion in the content roadmap.
• Edits courses and lessons for instructional soundness, pace of presentation, age-appropriateness, consistency of tone and style, and general readability.
• Leverages content-building tools to create media (one-pagers, videos, etc.) that is integrated into online courses that are both responsive and accessible.
• Schedules regular meetings with subject matter experts to discuss needs and next steps regarding content for course development.
• Adheres to roadmap timelines for the release of new courses.
• Consults with the rest of the team to discuss standards and consistency of content, style, visuals, and PDFs that are coordinated across courses, units, and lessons.
• Runs accessibility testing of materials to ensure the content reaches a wide group of learners.
• Incorporates review feedback - both internal and external - for editing of previously released courses.
• Seeks to continue growing and developing by staying appraised of current research and new instructional design applications in the field.

Requirements

• Three (3) years of experience in instructional design or related field.
• Strong technology and writing skills that lead to a 'learner focus' by using media and design techniques to meet deadlines with creativity, independence, and high standards.
• Demonstrated ability to establish objectives, identify problems, analyze data, and creatively deliver solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively on large-scale projects and adapt to new environments and meet new challenges head-on.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.) and web proficiency.
• Ability to clear required background check.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design or related field.
• Teaching and/or curriculum development experience.
• Experience in DominKnow or another ID e-learning authoring tool (Articulate 360, Adobe Captivate, etc.) is preferred.
• Experience building inside a platform like WordPress.