Instructional Designer

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

📋 Description

• Develop Pro+ courses across various programs utilizing module and lesson blueprints.

• Align program, course, and module outcomes with activities, resources, assessments, and assignment milestones.

• Create and refine learner-facing content for Canvas, including overviews, lesson pages, and assignment instructions.

• Design and evaluate assessments, rubrics, quizzes, and formative checks.

• Create scaffolded preparation strategies for significant assignments.

• Assess courses based on the course learning model and blueprint, documenting findings and suggestions.

• Examine courses developed by external partners and verify corrections prior to release.

• Evaluate AI coaching activities from both confident and struggling learner perspectives.

• Maintain Pro+ Canvas templates, design guidelines, and quality assurance checklists.

• Construct and modify Canvas pages and test course packages within sandbox courses and the Canvas Student app.

• Ensure accessibility compliance with ADA and WCAG 2.1 AA standards.

• Review technical and quantitative materials in collaboration with faculty.

• Contribute to student onboarding and faculty development, including training in UDL and AI pedagogy.

• Utilize learner feedback, course analytics, and assessment outcomes to suggest enhancements.

• Provide instructional design assistance for additional SFBU courses.

• Coordinate timelines, documentation, and communication for multiple program launches.

• Undertake other duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Education, Instructional Design, Learning Experience Design, Educational Technology, or a relevant field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 3–5 years of experience in instructional design within higher education, online learning, or a closely related field.

• Proficiency in designing and evaluating online courses in Canvas or a similar learning management system.

• Experience in mapping outcomes to activities and assessments, alongside developing aligned rubrics and formative checks.

• Familiarity with course-review standards or structured quality assurance processes like Quality Matters, OSCQR, or an institutional rubric.

• Working knowledge of Universal Design for Learning, transparent assignment design, and WCAG accessibility standards.

• Experience utilizing generative AI in instructional design and critically assessing AI-generated materials and coaching.

• Ability to simplify complex technical or quantitative concepts into sequential activities and worked examples.

• Experience collaborating with faculty and subject matter experts on course design.

• Strong writing skills and capability to provide specific, prioritized feedback.

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in a remote team environment.

• Capacity to manage multiple interconnected deliverables and parallel course development.

• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and student success.

• Preferred: Master’s degree in a related field.

• Preferred: Experience with DesignPLUS or similar Canvas design tools.

• Preferred: Experience designing courses for business, professional, or graduate programs.

• Preferred: Experience overseeing or reviewing work produced by external vendors or development teams.

• Preferred: Experience in supporting faculty development or UDL training.

• Preferred: Experience with AI-assisted, adaptive, or competency-based learning models.

• Preferred: Experience in launching new online programs or scaling a course design model.

• Portfolio demonstrating course page design, assessment design, or course review work.

• Must provide a cover letter, curriculum vitae or resume, portfolio link or two work samples, and contact information for three professional references.

• Finalists will be required to complete a short course-review exercise.

• Regular availability during Pacific Time business hours.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligible for remote, hybrid, or on-site work arrangements, subject to University policies and operational needs.

• Full-time, 12-month contract position, renewable based on performance evaluation.

• Reasonable accommodations available for applicants with disabilities.