Classification Title:
Instructional Designer II
Job Description:
The Lastinger Center for Learning is an education innovation hub within UF’s College of Education focused on creating equitable education systems that improve teaching and learning across early childhood and K-12 education. Specifically, the Center targets kindergarten readiness, 3rd grade reading proficiency, and algebra proficiency as critical milestones in children’s educational trajectory that are predictive of success in school and life. The Center works at the nexus of research, practice, and policy to develop sustainable systems that leverage educational technologies and improve the implementation of research-based practices. Housed in one of the nation’s elite public research universities, the Center operates as a dynamic, entrepreneurial workplace focused on executing against UF’s service mission to strengthen the human condition and improve the quality of life.
Responsibilities: Working in collaboration with the Content Production Team, the Instructional Design Generalist will be responsible for:
Create, research, provide instructional design, and review content as assigned
- Utilize project management skills and tools for product/content development.
- Create activities for content that are developmentally appropriate, and ensure content follows the outlined templates and scope of work
- Align content to ensure it is competency-based and that assessments and content are aligned with the appropriate Competencies and Standards
- Assure content adheres to APA guidelines, as appropriate
- Review content and materials, and edit/revise for improvements as necessary
- Assist with updates to visual identity and platform migrations as necessary
- Consult with subject matter experts on assessment and learner engagement activities, providing guidance on learning management system features to support adult learners
- Locate appropriate video or graphical resources for online content and/or coordinate video production vendors to produce assets
- Adhere to established schedules and deadlines
- Collaborate across project teams to ensure any course improvements that have been identified by instructors and/or practitioners are reviewed or documented on backlogs for later prioritization
- Review and edit course content and materials both video and non-video, including supporting closed captioning files, Interactive Media Elements, etc.
- Collaborate with production partners as required
Support production activities
- Produce documentation such as but not limited to the following: scripts, storyboards, production notes, transcripts, supporting resources, glossaries, or other specified documents as part of project deliverables and production schedules
- Review, revise, and format course resources as required
- Assist in the pre-production, production, and post-production of videos and other assets for courses or other products
- Organize course materials on file sharing system
- Participate in project and/or content review meetings to discuss progress, materials alignment, and next steps in active or future projects
- Support activities for on-site/field filming as needed, included organizing digital consents for filming in accordance with Lastinger approved procedures
- Assist with tagging videos and other assets
Participate as an active member of the Instructional Design Team
- May supervise others when leading projects
- Attending meetings and focus groups as requested
- Collaborate as appropriate with other teams and within the Lastinger Center
- Maintain daily communication with the Instructional Design Manager
- Track time in accordance with established team processes to align work time to billable projects
- Participate in planning and delivery of promotional presentations, conference sessions, etc., as required
Other tasks as assigned
Hybrid work location policy:Lastinger Center for Learning supports and promotes a healthy work-life balance. To achieve this, the Lastinger Center offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule that aligns with the university’s Flexibility in the Workplace Policy. Allowing employees to stagger arrival and departure times as necessary and to vary the number of workdays in the office so long as an employee’s FTE commitment is fulfilled within the university workweek. This policy also allows for occasional, incidental remote work based on individual circumstances.
Expected Salary:
$60,000 – $65,000
Minimum Requirements:
Master’s degree in an appropriate area and two years of relevant experience; or a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong editing and instructional design skills
- Experience with adult learning, professional development, and online learning
- Superior interpersonal and communication skills, superior oral and written communication skills, ability to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, ability to work proactively on a broad range of project support.
- Demonstrates the following dispositions highly valued by the Lastinger Center: committed, collaborative, culturally attuned, conscious of practice, curious, change agent
Special Instructions to Applicants:
In order to be considered, you must upload your cover letter and resume.
Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.
Health Assessment Required:
No
Advertised: 14 Aug 2023 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 28 Aug 2023 Eastern Daylight Time