Teaching and Learning Design Specialist

Title:

Teaching and Learning Design Specialist

Employee Classification:
Instructional Design Cnsltnt

Campus:
University of North Texas

Division: UNT-Provost

Sub Division-Department: UNT-Provost-Gen

Department: UNT-CLEAR-110220

Job Location:

Denton

Salary:
Salary commensurate with experience

FTE: 1.000000

Retirement Eligibility: TRS Eligible

The Learning Ecosystem for Empowering Futures (LEEF) serves as a networked support system to improve teaching and learning F brings together three related areas of work that are often disparate in higher education systems: curricular alignment, learning research, and educator development. Importantly, LEEF does not function as three siloed areas, but instead as a coordinated body that works with and for all members of the university.

We aim to enact meaningful and lasting improvements that significantly enhance students' college experiences and trajectories after graduation, as well educators' wellbeing and growth within the system. Ultimately, LEEF envisions a thriving university community that is empowered, agentic, and nimble in the face of changing educational and societal landscapes.

The Teaching and Learning Design Specialist serves as an expert partner and consultant to educators across the university — including graduate student instructors, adjunct faculty, staff educators, and experienced faculty at all career stages. This role integrates two complementary dimensions: supporting the design of effective learning experiences across in-person, hybrid, and online modalities, and fostering educator formation through reflective practice, teaching identity development, and ongoing professional growth.

In this role, faculty and instructors are the lead designers of their own teaching; the Specialist brings deep expertise in instructional design, pedagogy, and learning science to walk alongside them and support their development as educators. Individual specialists will bring deeper expertise in either the design of learning or educator formation, and will be hired accordingly; all specialists work as members of an integrated team whose collective expertise spans the full spectrum from instructional design to educator identity and growth.

Master's degree in Instructional Design or related field and three years of related experience; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

• Working knowledge of learning and instructional design theories.
• Working knowledge of college level courseware and ability to apply that understanding to course development.
• Ability to design, develop, and implement instructional multimedia products.
• Demonstrated skill in application of current technologies (desktop applications, internet, multimedia).
• Ability to apply proficient writing skills to author courseware.
• Knowledge of Fair Use and copyright issues that apply to online course delivery.

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• Provides individualized consultation to educators at all career stages — from new graduate instructors to seasoned faculty — on course design, pedagogical strategies, learning outcomes, assessment, and teaching identity and growth.
• Contributes to the design and delivery of faculty and educator development programming, including workshops, speaker series, and structured learning experiences grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
• Supports faculty-led Communities of Practice focused on meaningful course and pedagogical design challenges, providing intellectual and logistical partnership to advance their work.
• Creates and revises course design documents, curriculum maps, and related instructional…