Instructional Designer

Status Full Time Regular

Salary Range $56,000 - $62,000

The Instructional Designer, housed in the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence ( CAFE ), partners with faculty, academic programs, and campus colleagues to design, develop, evaluate, and improve high-quality learning experiences across in-person, hybrid, and online modalities.

A central focus of this position is strengthening alignment among program learning outcomes, course learning outcomes, learning activities, assessments, and evidence of student learning. The Instructional Designer will help faculty and programs build and deploy in-person, hybrid, and online courses focused on learning outcomes or standards, rubrics, and aligned assessments within the College’s learning management system, and will support scalable approaches for collecting and using program‑level evidence of student learning.

The position also supports course quality, accessibility, faculty professional development, instructional technologies, and thoughtful use of emerging technologies. Experience with Canvas is strongly preferred, but candidates with substantial experience in another enterprise learning management system and a demonstrated ability to learn new platforms are encouraged to apply.

• Partner with faculty and subject‑matter experts to design, develop, revise, and evaluate courses and learning experiences using evidence‑informed instructional design practices.
• Apply backward design and constructive alignment to connect program learning outcomes, course learning outcomes, instructional activities, assignments, assessments, and evidence of student learning.
• Build and configure course components within the learning management system, including modules, assignments, assessments, rubrics, learning outcomes or standards, and other instructional resources.
• Support academic programs in creating, organizing, and deploying learning‑outcome or standards structures within the LMS , including mapping program learning outcomes to course outcomes and aligned assessments.
• Collaborate with faculty, academic leaders, and assessment colleagues to develop sustainable workflows for collecting, reviewing, and using evidence of program learning outcomes across courses and programs.
• Assist faculty with the design and use of rubrics, authentic assessments, and other measures that produce meaningful evidence of learner achievement.
• Develop and maintain course templates, blueprints, examples, guides, and other resources that promote clear, consistent, accessible, and learner‑centered course design while preserving appropriate disciplinary flexibility.
• Review courses and digital learning materials for instructional quality, usability, accessibility, alignment, learner engagement, and effective use of instructional technology, and recommend practical improvements.
• Design and facilitate faculty workshops, consultations, institutes, and other professional learning related to course design, assessment, accessibility, online and hybrid teaching, Canvas or other LMS tools, and emerging instructional practices.
• Support the thoughtful and ethical use of generative artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies in course development, teaching, learning, and assessment.
• Evaluate, pilot, document, and support instructional technologies in collaboration with CAFE colleagues, Academic Affairs, Information Technology Services, Institutional Effectiveness, and other campus partners.
• Manage multiple instructional design…