Associate, Instructional Designer ELA​/SLA

Overview

Make an Impact! At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide from kindergarten through graduate school. Our goal is to accelerate student success through intuitive and effective learning tools and content that maximize a teacher's time and a student's learning experience. We do all of this in a supportive, collaborative environment where you can grow your career in a way that fits into your life.

How can you make an impact? McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is looking for an Associate Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA for our K-12 division literacy programs. You will be a valuable member of a collaborative group of Instructional Designers, closely partnering with teams focused on content, product management, UX, and creative media. As part of this team, you will create robust digital tools, curriculum and learning solutions in a variety of formats that are used by millions of educators and students every day.

The Associate Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA a digital savvy content and curriculum expert, responsible and accountable for assembling high-quality content based on specific product requirements for the Literacy programs.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 04/30/2027.

• Learn and contribute to program planning and curriculum mapping where applicable.
• Learn and contribute in regards to the creation of POC's and prototypes.
• Through a UBD process, you will design, storyboard, and develop digital curriculum assets such as videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, games and virtual labs.
• Review manuscript, create storyboards, contribute during alpha and beta builds for digital assets.
• Learn and provide support with digital tools, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
• Heavy contributions with user testing, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
• Heavy contributions partnering with Instructional Designers during product build and serving under Senior members of the team.
• Hold responsibility for accuracy and maintenance of build documentation.
• Become experts in accessibility with heavy contributions to this area throughout the product development process.
• Heavy contributions to the product build process.
• Meet all intermediate and final schedules.
• Contribute on cross-functional teams to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met and completed on time.
• Contribute during digital launches with vendors including helping to create templates, trackers, and digital content development guidelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements as they arise in authoring tools and the platform. When necessary, help define requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements.
• Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
• QA the work of the vendor to ensure it adheres to guidelines.
• Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
• Creating novel solutions with measurable value for existing and potential customers (internal or external); experimenting with new ways to solve work problems and seize opportunities that result in unique and differentiated solutions.
• Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
• Having achieved a satisfactory level of technical, functional, and/or professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; keeping up with current developments…