Instructional Design Supervisor

SALARY RANGE: $80,192-$

At Noble, we believe the health of soil, plants, animals, and humans is one and indivisible. We believe in rebuilding healthy soils and helping producers maintain a strong bottom line. Through these two actions, we can transform degraded grazing lands across the United States, benefiting the environment and society as a whole. Our focus is to help farmers and ranchers apply regenerative ranching principles to the nation’s 654 million acres of grazing lands.

This monumental undertaking requires thousands of producers across the U.S. to overcome significant barriers and change their current practices to work with nature, not against it. Our education program is at the heart of our mission. It is the glue that connects our internal research discoveries and outreach activities. We live to find new ways to generate usable information so farmers and ranchers can leave their land better at sunset than  education program is the inflection point for transformation.

Education has always been a part of who we are, but we know new opportunities exist for us to expand our reach.

Instructional Design Supervisor

As an instructional design supervisor, you will oversee the design and development of engaging, effective and scalable learning experiences across multiple delivery formats, alongside subject matter experts, that address real‑world challenges facing farmers and ranchers. This work is key in helping Noble achieve its goals and share the story of regenerative land stewardship with farmers, ranchers, potential donors, and society  work you do can play a part in making a difference in a producer’s operation, their life and the society that depends on them.

• Excellent communication, collaboration and time management ensuring quality educational product development and maintenance.
• Quality and innovative focus with attention to detail for accuracy and consistency of educational products.
• Deep understanding of adult learning principles with experience in learning tools and technology.

• Leading others
  • Planning strategically for budgeting and staffing to ensure effective resource management. Modeling and ensuring compliance with organizational policies, procedures and workplace safety.
  • Guiding and supporting individual and team performance and development. Defining clear expectations to support and align individual, team and organizational goals.
  • Building trust among team members through effective communication and relationships. Cultivating a culture of productivity and efficiency through intentional practices that foster growth, accountability and execution.
• Managing design of educational products
  • Overseeing the instructional design function ensuring the highest quality standards and application of the latest instructional design science and principles. Ensuring the end‑product aligns with the Institute's standards and is completed within the established deadline.
  • Applying principles of adult learning and instructional design processes (such as ADDIE), to create educational products. This includes face‑to‑face classroom, virtual classroom, e‑learning blended designs, non‑linear designs, self‑development designs, multiple module course curricula, action learning and media‑based learning.
  • Participating in needs analysis and interacting with subject matter experts to inform the design and development of educational products. Partnering with internal customers and subject matter experts to analyze and document educational outcomes and learning objectives that support learners.
  • Generating the participant and facilitator guides, e‑learning content and blended learning solutions through storyboarding and authoring tools. Designing content and associated metrics that optimize learning.
• Conducting quality review
  • Reviewing and evaluating all educational products for consistency and providing guidance and coaching on instructional design work as needed.
  • Testing learning designs and iterating content to ensure it aligns with learner's needs.
• Maintaining curriculum portfolio
  • Overseeing the ongoing maintenance of the curriculum courses, including evaluating an ongoing backlog of…