Instructional Design Lead

About VCU Continuing and Professional Education and LEDstudio–

VCU LEDstudio is a leader in providing quality higher education and lifelong learning opportunities using a number of delivery methods, including fully online and hybrid. The unit broadly supports faculty, academic units, and community partners in their efforts to leverage technology to optimize student learning. Additionally, LEDstudio provides strategic leadership in developing, expanding, and enhancing VCU’s learning opportunities, programs, and supporting the assessment and continuous quality improvement of current and new technology-mediated courses, programs, and projects.

LEDstudio operates in a fast-paced environment requiring flexibility, innovation, and an openness to change. Instructional designers within LEDstudio must be comfortable navigating new directives, emerging technologies, and evolving institutional needs.

VCU Continuing and Professional Education (VCU CPE), in partnership with the colleges and schools at Virginia Commonwealth University, provides and supports quality continuing and professional education and skills training for individual, local, regional and national impact. VCU Continuing and Professional Education harnesses the power of VCU — including more than 3,300 instructional faculty and adjunct instructors, an academic medical center and long-standing community relationships — to create the best learning opportunities available to nontraditional adult learners.

The position is an Instructional Design Lead for VCU LEDstudio
. Instructional Designers collaborate with faculty and colleagues to develop high-quality online and hybrid courses based on pedagogical best practices. These collaborations may be individual consultations relating to instructional design, larger programmatic efforts working with groups, and/or faculty development opportunities to enhance course design, facilitation, evaluation, and administration. The Instructional Design Lead manages a team of instructional designers including overseeing the assignment, progress and completion of instructional designers’ projects, providing professional development guidance and support, assisting in the development and revision of instructional design team procedures and processes, and reporting information to the Instructional Design Manager.

Instructional designer projects may be but are not limited to credit and noncredit course developments, creation and facilitation of teaching and learning resources, research and dissemination of information regarding current and emerging learning technologies, accessibility, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, and trends in teaching and learning.

Instructional Design Leads provide advanced instructional design consultation and leadership to faculty, academic units, and university partners throughout the course development lifecycle. These engagements support the design, development, and continuous improvement of high-quality online and hybrid learning experiences through:

• Leading the development and organization of online course environments that align with institutional standards and instructional design best practices
• Designing and advising on engaging learning activities, instructional content, and digital learning objects that promote student success
• Guiding the development of authentic formative and summative assessments that align with course and program learning outcomes
• Recommending, evaluating, and integrating appropriate educational technologies to enhance teaching, learning, accessibility, and student engagement
• Consulting on effective instructional strategies that support learner interaction, content delivery, and active learning in online and hybrid environments
• Ensuring course…