Instructional Designer, Office of Online Education

Winston Salem, NC

Full time

As an instructional designer in the Office of Online Education, you will collaborate and lead teams of faculty and staff in designing high-quality online and blended learning experiences across schools, programs, and departments at Wake Forest University. Working closely with faculty and staff colleagues, you will consult on instructional activities; evaluate educational technologies and teaching practices; manage course design projects; build courses in the Learning Management System (LMS), collaborate with faculty on the design and delivery of their courses;

design faculty development experiences; and contribute to related work on special projects, as needed.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship of non-immigrant or immigrant visa status through Wake Forest University. All eligible applicants are encouraged to apply.

This is a hybrid position that requires the employee to work on campus at Wake Forest University at least one day per week. Additional on-campus presence may be required as needed.

• Ensure instructional integrity of the course development projects through a method of systematic design and clear course standards and objectives.
• Provide recommendations for interface design, sequencing of instruction, use of assessments, and online interactive activities.
• Serve as project manager for online and blended course development, coordinating course teams, including instructors, relevant academic support staff, and multimedia specialists, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Build out learner-friendly course experiences using Wake Forest’s online course platforms and learning technologies.
• Support faculty during the delivery of their online courses, identifying and resolving instructional issues that occur while a course or project is active.
• Identify and develop instructional best practices for online and blended learning environments.
• Contribute to a transparent and equitable organizational culture where ethical and equity policies and practices are understood and lived out by all staff.

• Consult with faculty on the effective use of instructional design strategies, web-based resources, multimedia technologies, and instructional software to improve teaching for online delivery.
• Research and evaluate new and emerging technologies, instructional design theories, and approaches and policies for potential application to instructional opportunities.
• Evaluate the instructional effectiveness of programs, courses, and training products using new and existing standards.

• Support constituent groups served by online education at the university through training, on-demand help guides, and secondary technical support.
• Propose and contribute to special projects that support educational goals of various schools or programs and align with the Office’s work on campus.

• A bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline (e.g., education, instructional design, learning sciences, curriculum and planning, educational technology, design thinking) and at least 2 years of relevant experience.
• A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in instructional design working with credit-bearing courses in higher education.
• A demonstrated ability in at least one Learning Management System and additional learning technologies relevant to online instruction in higher education.
• Strong and comprehensive oral, written, and interpersonal skills that enable one to collaborate…