Instructional Design Manager – Academic Affairs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Oversee the instructional design team, comprising instructional designers and instructional technologists, to create high-caliber online courses and instructional materials.

• Recruit and manage instructional designers, instructional technologists, and part-time members of the instructional design team.

• Provide leadership in instructional design, including project plans, task communication, status updates, and risk management.

• Collaborate with faculty, subject matter experts, the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning, and members of the Academic Team.

• Establish production procedures to ensure timely, efficient, consistent, and high-quality course development.

• Offer educational programs aimed at enhancing faculty pedagogical skills.

• Assess online instructional methods and formulate continuous quality improvement strategies.

• Manage instructional design projects throughout the course development cycles.

• Generate reports concerning online course enrollments, evaluations, schedules, development, and quality.

• Ensure that online courses, degree programs, and distance learning adhere to university, state, and federal regulations and policies.

• Act as the primary instructional design liaison for academic programs and coordinate design priorities.

• Lead course quality assurance initiatives using Quality Matters standards.

• Direct course design and development efforts, including the maintenance of course templates and standards.

• Create operational procedures and workflows for the team.

• Support planning, assessment, evaluation, accessibility, learning analytics, faculty development, and digital learning initiatives.

• Assist faculty in selecting, utilizing, designing, and evaluating web-based instructional strategies and technologies.

• Investigate current and emerging technologies and delivery methods.

• Aid in securing grants for online course or module development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Education, or a related field.

• A minimum of five years of relevant experience.

• Experience in supervisory roles and possessing strong management skills.

• Proven experience in designing and developing fully online and hybrid online academic courses.

• Experience in integrating technology into online instruction.

• Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional relevant experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma or its equivalent, in line with the JHU equivalency formula.

• Strong preference for experience with academic course design, project management, and familiarity with Storyline or other course authoring tools.

• Preferred track record of publications and/or presentations related to instructional design, education, learning technology, or related fields.

• Familiarity with learning management systems, particularly Blackboard.

• Preference for candidates with three or more years of experience managing a team of instructional designers through multiple concurrent course development projects.

• Membership or direct affiliation with professional associations and organizations that promote forward-thinking in distance education.

• Advanced expertise in ADA Compliance, Adult Learning Principles, Educational Technologies, Instructional Strategies, Learning Management Systems, Learning Theory, Process Improvement, and Project Management.

• Availability from Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

• Candidates selected for the position will undergo a pre-employment background check.

• Johns Hopkins University mandates that faculty, staff, and students receive the seasonal flu vaccine, with stated exceptions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive rewards package promoting employees’ health, life, career, and retirement.

• Seasonal flu vaccine is mandatory, with provisions for religious or medical exceptions.

• Required vaccinations for applicable positions are provided at no cost through Occupational Health.

• Reasonable workplace accommodations and accessibility support are available.

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Occasional travel to the Baltimore campus for meetings and events.