Instructional Designer – Contract

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with faculty subject matter experts to create course plans, establish learning outcomes, develop assessment maps, and outline course structure.

• Draft course guides or blueprints that include instructional narratives, activities, assessments, rubrics, and resource links.

• Review and formulate learning outcomes utilizing Bloom's Taxonomy and associated frameworks.

• Create formative and summative assessments, knowledge checks, and engaging learning activities.

• Prepare media plans and liaise with media producers and interactive developers.

• Implement client templates, style guides, terminology, and design standards.

• Ensure compliance with accessibility standards as per WCAG 2.1 AA and address any accessibility issues.

• Conduct regular working sessions with subject matter experts, including weekly meetings.

• Participate in project and client calls as dictated by the project or contractual obligations.

• Track task status in the client's project management system, typically ClickUp.

• Manage course review and approval processes, routing deliverables to designated reviewers.

• Evaluate constructed courses in the LMS against approved blueprints, document fixes, verify corrections, and provide sign-off prior to client delivery.

• Identify and communicate risks related to schedule, communication, and scope in a timely manner.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in designing courses for higher education, K-12, or workforce learning and development.

• Completion of at least one full course from outline to delivery.

• Proficiency with learning management systems, especially Canvas and Brightspace.

• Capability to collaborate with and lead relationships with faculty subject matter experts.

• Comfort in engaging in client-facing discussions, including articulating constraints or declining unsuitable requests.

• Strong, structured writing skills.

• Competence in adhering to client style guides, templates, terminology, and design standards.

• Ability to self-manage and meet deadlines while working in a distributed team environment.

• Degree in education, instructional design, instructional technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• Knowledge of accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Articulate Storyline or Rise, H5P, or other interactive development tools.

• Preferred: Understanding of Quality Matters or similar course design standards.

• Preferred: Experience utilizing AI tools within a design workflow.

• Preferred: Background in business, criminal justice, education, psychology, health sciences, or data analytics.

🏝️ Benefits

• Contracted on a per-course basis under a work-for-hire agreement.

• Compensation includes a fixed fee per course upon reaching defined milestones and acceptance of each deliverable.

• Defined review cycles are included within the fee structure.

• Revisions within the specified revision window are also included.

• Contract amendments available for work that exceeds the included scope or for changes post sign-off.

• Flexibility in course volume based on capacity (one or multiple courses).

• Remote work arrangement available.

• Utilize Google Workspace, Slack, project management system, and client LMS.

• Access to AI tools, including Alchemy’s proprietary platform.