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Job Opportunity: Instructional Designer:University of MemphisJob description:Instructional Designer
Posting DetailsPosting InformationPosting Number: SAECC3774 Advertised Title: Instructional Designer Campus Job location: Main Campus (Memphis, TN) Position Number: 020368 Job Category: Staff (Hourly/Monthly) Department: University Libraries Minimum Position Appropriate qualifications: Master's degree in instructional design or significant area and two (2) years of higher education instructional design practice. An equivalent combination of education, training, and practice may be substituted for the degree requirement. Special Conditions: The prosperous applicant will be assigned to work with the UM3D Instructional Impact unit. The department is especially interested in candidates who have practice with providing consulting services in the design, development, and delivery of blended face-to-face, hybrid, online, and competency-located courses in a university setting. Candidates must possess excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, and must be able to interact with many levels of University faculty, staff and students. candidates should highlight professional accomplishments that demonstrate a broad knowledge of integrating emerging technologies within a dynamic instructional design pedagogy. An in depth knowledge of designing accessible instructional materials and practice covering the learning needs of all students is highly valued. This position requires remote work using employee-provided/accessible network support all over the work week and on-call schedules. Capacity must provide for high quality remote interactions via Zoom, Teams, or similar approved applications to conduct and participate in meeting and provide synchronous training and teaching sessions. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Working remotely is expected. It is expected that the incumbent will be fully available during the standard work week. The position requires a varying work schedule and will include periodic evening and weekend hours to guarantee accomplishment of the goals and expectations of the position description as well as to meet the needs of the teaching faculty. Posting Date: 03/29/2024 Closing Date: 04/12/2024 Open Until Screening Begins: No Hiring Range: $60,000 per year Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time: Benefits Eligible Working Conditions: While performing the tasks of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk. The employee is occasionally required to stand; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Additional Working Conditions: While performing the tasks of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; complete work with a personal computer, using a computer monitor for much of the workday; use hands to handle, or feel; and talk or hear. The majority of the design and development work provided by this individual will be conducted remotely with periodic on-campus attendance at meetings, to provide training, or otherwise as assigned, to the benefits of the position. The incumbent is required to provide reliable, high-speed internet capacity at their residence or other remote work location. The department will make available and assign for remote use the PC/MacOS laptop preferred by the employee to fulfill their tasks and responsibilities. Special Instructions to candidates: All applications must be submitted online at workforum.memphis.edu. candidates must complete all applicable sections of the online application to be considered for a position. Please upload a cover letter, resume, and three (3) references after completing your application, if required by the system. Required work practice is located on full time hours. Part time work practice will be prorated as listed. Candidates who are called for an interview must notify the Department of Human Resources in writing of any reasonable accommodation needed prior to the date of the interview. Is this posting for UofM employees only?: No Positions Supervised: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: The specific tasks, tasks, and responsibilities of this position are subject to change as technology advances and the needs and interests of the University of Memphis evolve over time. Additional Position Information: Benefits of Employment (Applies to full-time, non-police employees only): Job tasks tasks & Job responsibilities: Consults with faculty to help them match instructional strategies and available technologies with their student learning results and objectives. Provides instructional material production services to address learning results. Focuses the instructional design process on enhancing student enrollments, course success, program retention, and timely graduation. tasks & Job responsibilities: Analyzes trends in UofM student learning needs and preferences, designs or identifies innovative strategies and technologies to address those trends, conducts pilot projects to test solutions, implements prosperously tested solutions with academic units, and evaluates implemented solutions. Such analysis addresses the needs of all student demographic communities, including students with disabilities, first generation freshman, adult degree completers, community college transfers, honors students, fully online learners, and military veterans. tasks & Job responsibilities: Develops multiple means of enhancing faculty professional development to enhance multiple instructional delivery formats (e.g., in-person, hybrid, online, competency-located models, and experiential learning). Offers such services via face-to-face seminars, webinars, websites, blogs, social media communications, faculty and student communities of practice, and personal consultations. tasks & Job responsibilities: Enhances instructional design procedures, service infrastructure, and tools for partnering with an academic department in the design, development, and delivery of an academic program (major, concentration, or certificate) with integration of appropriate instructional design and technology. Such enhancements require influential leadership abilities from the instructional designer in facilitating a team approach to course design, involving as appropriate the curriculum skills of faculty, field experts, elearning training resources of the Information Technology Division, media production resources, campus student success services, and the Marketing Department. The instructional designer respectfully balances the perceived needs of faculty and their curriculum with dynamic pedagogical practice and institutional legal compliance. tasks & Job responsibilities: Works closely with campus faculty to research innovative approaches at the UofM for integrating learning theory, emerging technology, and accessibility (e.g., Universal Design for Learning) with academic instruction in order to address the learning needs of all students, regardless of abilities or disabilities. tasks & Job responsibilities: Assists to ensure that UofM distance learning programs are in compliance with accreditation agencies at the campus, state, regional, and federal levels to enhance quality and legality. tasks & Job responsibilities: Reviews instructional design (ID) professional literature, networks with ID professionals outside the University, participates and prepares academic presentations, and participates in activities necessary to stay informed about trends in instructional design. tasks & Job responsibilities: Other tasks as assigned. Supplemental QuestionsRequired fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).* Explain how dynamic instructional design of academic programs can enhance student enrollments, course success, program retention, and timely graduation. (Open Ended Question) * Indicate your professional accomplishments that have promoted multiple means of engaging students in learning through purposeful motivation, multiple means of representation of instructional content for maximum comprehension, and multiple means of student expression of competency for strategic execution of critical thinking. (Open Ended Question) * Describe some key challenges facing non-traditional student abilities to prosperously complete a degree program. Please address the unique challenges for students with disabilities, first generation freshman, adult degree completers, community college transfers, fully online learners, and military veterans. (Open Ended Question) * Elaborate on your involvement in facilitating face-to-face seminars, webinars, websites, blogs, social media communications, and personal consultations. (Open Ended Question) * Do you possess a Master's degree? » yes » no » Describe your practices in the design, development, and delivery of blended face-to-face, hybrid, online, and competency-located courses in a university setting. (Open Ended Question) Applicant DocumentsRequired Documents» Resume » Cover Letter » References List Optional Documents » Unofficial Transcript Skills:
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