Instructional Designer/Technologist II

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UNC Charlotte

Part-Time
Closes on Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Job Description

The Instructional Designer/Technologist manages large-scale instructional innovation projects from initiation through design, development, and implementation. These projects are mission-critical and directly related to student success in areas of high need to shorten time to a degree and reduce DFW rates. This essential position will collaborate with faculty and other instructional staff in building out mass-scale course projects for the university and the UNC system partner universities, including the development of content, curriculum structure, and instructional technique.

Specifically, the position provides project oversight and coordination across multiple departments and units, including faculty, other instructional designers/technologists, stakeholders from leadership in partner units at the university and other UNC schools, graduate assistants, working as a team for design, development, revision, management, and scaling up of innovation projects.Instructional in nature, these duties are associated with the regular academic and educational experiences provided by the university, are uniquely supportive of those academic and educational experiences, and involve significant and independent interaction with participants in the university’s instructional and educational program.
This is an advanced role in an Instructional Design and Technology position to plan, design, and implement academic technology and/or innovative approaches that directly support faculty effectiveness in instructional design and delivery for student success. This position requires an advanced degree in a teaching or instructional design-related field and teaching experience in higher education. Given the need to continually advance and promote the use of mixed teaching methodologies that incorporate the use of technology to not only enhance traditional classroom-based instruction but also broaden the basis for online and blended/hybrid courses, this position involves engaging with faculty, departments, and partner units across the university in multiple ways for course design and delivery, implementation and evaluation.

This position provides project management, oversight, and coordination across multiple departments and units, working as a team for the design, development, revision, management, and scaling up of multiple large-scale course redesign learning projects. This will include planning and coordination for these strategic initiatives, supporting and fostering learning innovation, promoting systems thinking and design thinking for faculty and student success, and leading the design and redesign of learning environments and instructional systems. The work involves a highly complex chain of functions requiring strong consultancy skills in fostering change and the ability to execute and deliver results. The position requires that a substantial proportion of the work commitment is devoted to instructional activities and the direction of educational/academic supportive activities. UNC Charlotte
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