Instructional Designer - VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education

Summary

About VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education-

VCU Online is a leader in providing quality higher education using a number of delivery methods, including fully online and hybrid. The unit broadly supports faculty and academic units in their efforts to leverage technology to optimize student learning, and provides strategic leadership in developing, expanding and enhancing VCU’s online learning programs and energizing the assessment and continuous quality improvement of current and new technology mediated courses and programs.

VCU Continuing and Professional Education, in partnership with the colleges and schools at Virginia Commonwealth University, provides and supports quality continuing and professional education and skills training for individual, local, regional and national impact. VCU Continuing and Professional Education harnesses the power of VCU - including more than 3,300 instructional faculty and adjunct instructors, an academic medical center and long-standing community relationships - to create the best learning opportunities available to nontraditional adult learners.

The position is an Instructional Designer (AA Instructional Design Specialist) for VCU Online and Continuing and Professional Education. Instructional Designers collaborate with faculty and colleagues to develop high-quality online, blended, and hybrid courses based on pedagogical best practices. These collaborations may be individual consultations relating to instructional design, larger programmatic efforts working with groups, and/or faculty development opportunities to enhance course design, facilitation, evaluation, and administration.

These engagements support the design or redesign of course components such as:

• Develop the online course environment
• Creation of learning objects, activities, and course content
• Design of formative and summative assessment
• Integration of appropriate learning technologies
• Strategies for content delivery and engagement
• Guidance in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance

Instructional Designers exercise professional judgment in:

• Maintaining confidentiality in consultation work with faculty members, departments, and schools
• Supporting the Instructional Design team in order to meet course design goals and faculty needs in a timely manner
• Building quality course materials and components to align with VCU Quality standards
• Other duties may be assigned in response to the unit’s needs

The telework nature of this position is subject to change based on university need and strategic direction.

AI should not be used for any part of the application submission or process.

Minimum Hiring Standards

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional design or other education-related field
• Minimum two (2) years of experience designing and building courses for online or hybrid delivery
• Demonstrated experience with Canvas learning management system (LMS) and a range of learning technologies
• Demonstrated experience designing and creating online resources for instructors
• Ability to adapt and solve problems proactively and independently
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written and teamwork skills
• Proven ability to work as a contributing and collegial member of a team, and to communicate proactively within the team environment
• Demonstrated experience working in and fostering a diverse faculty, staff, and student environment or commitment to do so as a member of the VCU community
• Proven time management skills

Preferred Hiring Standards

• Advanced degree in a discipline such as Instructional Design, Learning Technologies, Curriculum and Instruction, Adult Learning, or a related field
• Experience using Adobe products in a higher education environment
• Experience using Canvas in a higher education environment

Job Specific Physical and Cognitive Requirements

Essential physical functions: Walking, Sitting, Repetitive motion, Average to fast paced, Ability to respond to multiple stimuli
Essential cognitive functions: Memory, Reasoning, Analyzing, Hearing, Logic, Reading, Written communication, Verbal communication