Instructional Designer

$65,000 - $70,000/Yr

Boundless Learning - Chandler, AZ

Full-time - Mid Level

Chandler, AZ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Boundless Learning, we are dedicated to empowering our partners to deliver exceptional educational experiences that expand opportunities for learners globally. The Instructional Designer plays a crucial role in this mission by developing and revising curricular products tailored for our partners and clients. This position involves close collaboration with subject matter experts, partner/client personnel, quality assurance staff, and multimedia developers to create engaging and effective learning experiences. The Instructional Designer will be an integral part of a collaborative instructional design team, responsible for assessing, designing, developing, and evaluating online, hybrid, and traditional courses. The role requires the conceptualization and storyboarding of instructionally sound, interactive web-based course components, ensuring that these components are effectively integrated into learning management systems. The Instructional Designer will manage the curriculum development process for new and revised courses, ensuring adherence to partner/client standards. This includes providing instructional design consultation to faculty and subject matter experts, assisting them in creating contextually rich and engaging courses that focus on real-world skills. In addition to course development, the Instructional Designer will document the course development process using project management applications, design content for online delivery, conduct quality assurance reviews, and collaborate with quality assurance staff to enhance curriculum design. The position also involves participating in university ID team meetings and testing emerging technologies in courses and learning experiences. This role is essential for transforming education and making a lasting impact on learners worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Manages the curriculum development process for new and revision courses and learning experiences and assures that courses adhere to partner/client standards.
• Develops and supports partner/client-chosen online learning environments.
• Provides instructional design consultation to faculty of partners/clients and/or subject matter experts.
• Assists faculty of partners/clients and/or subject matter experts in the development of contextually-rich, engaging, and objective-driven courses and learning experiences that focus on applicable real-world/workplace skills.
• Works within a project management application to document course development process data including time tracking, project comments, and task completion.
• Designs content for delivery in online environments and completes instructional design documentation to ensure quality and consistency.
• Conducts photo research for images to supplement learning activities.
• Uses WYSIWYG multimedia tools to develop multimedia pieces.
• Communicates regularly with partner/client faculty and/or subject matter experts during curriculum development process.
• Builds course content/components into the learning management system.
• Conceptualizes and storyboards instructionally sound, interactive, engaging web-based course components.
• Conducts quality assurance reviews on courses and implements revisions.
• Collaborates with quality assurance staff.
• Reviews existing courses for quality, currency, and consistency and works with faculty to enhance curriculum design as needed.
• Participates in university ID team meetings.
• Helps to test and implement agreed-upon emerging technologies in courses and learning experiences.
• Attends course revision calls and creates scope documents outlining confirmed revisions from post-course discussions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in education, instructional design, curriculum, educational technology, or a related degree is required; master's degree is preferred.
• Minimum of three years' experience in instructional design with experience in designing authentic assessments and generative learning experiences.
• Experience in higher education is preferred.
• Knowledge of adult learning principles, Understanding by Design, constructivism, facilitation, DE&I and learner-centered activities.
• Ability to provide instructional design consulting services to subject matter experts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in learning management systems with knowledge of accessibility standards.
• Experience in HTML or CSS preferred.
• Ability to be creative, flexible, and innovative in course design.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize, adhere to budgets, and meet deadlines.
• Exceptionally strong attention to detail.
• Comfort in working within project management applications.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Adobe Captivate is preferred.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance