Instructional Designer

The starting annual salary range is $77,674 – $105,089 for a 248-day schedule, plus comprehensive benefits.

The Instructional Designer role works closely with academic departments, managers, and faculty grantees at Oregon community colleges and universities to develop and adopt high-quality, sustainable, and customizable open educational resources. Support faculty from all backgrounds and skill levels through collaboration, consistency, innovation, and transparency. Evaluate and make recommendations on the purchase or creation of platforms, tools, and processes to support student users and streamline faculty efforts, in addition to supporting and managing the use of existing tools and platforms already in use in Oregon.

Works closely with the Statewide Open Education Program Director to promote textbook affordability for community college and university students and facilitate widespread adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials. The successful candidate for this position will have a broad and compelling interest in all aspects of instructional design and technology that motivates the candidate’s practices in supporting course content and curriculum development, outcomes assessment, diversity and inclusion initiatives, OER advocacy, and student engagement.

* This is a full-time, temporary, fixed-term position funded through a grant that is currently scheduled to end on September 30, 2029 (with new funding this position may be extended beyond the initial grant period). This position will report administratively to Linn-Benton Community College, but supports a statewide grant-funded program accountable to Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission and the federal Department of Labor.

• Collaborate with faculty to develop engaging, interactive, and effective openly licensed courses and curricula that address various learning styles and are accessible to all students.
• Write promotional messages, raise awareness, and contribute to repositories to ensure that OER is showcased and searchable via openoregon.org and other relevant channels.
• Develop and apply research-based standards for OER produced by grantees in a variety of formats (textbooks, syllabi, websites, videos, etc).
• Organize and participate in professional development opportunities to learn about and encourage the use of best practices for instructional design, assessment, technologies, and open educational practices, with a focus on the benefit to higher education in Oregon.
• Research, write and produce openly licensed documentation, reports, and other instructional materials (e.g., websites, multimedia, and online tutorials) to support faculty learning.
• Prioritize accessibility best practices and ensure that OER published via Oregon’s statewide program meet current standards.
• Creatively and effectively model use of instructional technologies such as learning management systems, databases, web development tools, and presentation software, with an emphasis on open source technologies where possible.
• Evaluate and make recommendations on purchasing or creating new platforms, tools, and processes to enhance open educational practices and open-source learning environments.
• Report on the increase in the use of the collection as a result of improvements made. Contribute to tracking student savings and other impacts resulting from the statewide OER program.
• Plan and advocate for the sustainable continuation of statewide instructional design support.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work is performed primarily from home or in office, meeting rooms, or classroom settings with minimal exposure to health or safety hazards. The successful candidate may work…