Director of Digital Learning & Academic

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Salem, WV, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $80,000.00 To $90,000.00 Annually

The Director of Digital Learning & Academic Technology provides University-wide leadership for Salem University's digital learning environment, Learning Management System (LMS), instructional design function, academic technology integrations, and course-development operations.

The Director is responsible for ensuring Salem University's digital courses are effectively designed, developed, maintained, quality-reviewed, integrated, and deployed to support the University's academic programs and monthly course-start model.

Serving as the operational connection between approved curriculum and its successful implementation within the University's digital learning environment, the Director collaborates closely with the Provost, Associate Provost, Director of Curriculum, Assessment & Academic Quality, academic Deans and Directors, Registrar, Information Technology, faculty, instructional design personnel, and external vendors.

The Director establishes and maintains University-wide course-development processes, digital course standards, production schedules, quality-assurance expectations, LMS practices, and academic technology standards that support academic quality, consistency, scalability, accessibility, student success, and continuous improvement.

The duties listed below are representative of the responsibilities of this position. Additional duties may be assigned based on departmental or organizational needs.

• Provide University-wide leadership and operational oversight for the University's Learning Management System, currently Blackboard, and associated digital-learning technologies.
• Ensure the LMS is effectively configured, maintained, and utilized to support academic programs, faculty, and students.
• Establish and maintain standards for LMS course structures, templates, permissions, gradebook configurations, instructional tools, and related academic technology practices.
• Monitor LMS releases, updates, enhancements, and emerging functionality and coordinate testing and implementation with Information Technology and other stakeholders.
• Establish appropriate LMS governance, procedures, documentation, controls, and continuity practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve the digital learning environment and enhance the faculty and student experience.
• Promote effective, consistent, and scalable use of the University's digital-learning technologies.

Course Development & Monthly Course Production

• Own and manage the end-to-end digital course-development and production process from receipt of approved curriculum through design, development, quality review, technology integration, LMS deployment, and course readiness.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive course-development and production calendar aligned with the University's monthly course starts.
• Coordinate with the Associate Provost, Director of Curriculum, Assessment & Academic Quality, Registrar, instructional design personnel, and academic leadership to identify upcoming course-development and revision needs.
• Maintain a centralized course-development tracker identifying project status, responsible parties, milestones, deadlines, quality-review status, and anticipated deployment.
• Establish project plans, timelines, responsibilities, and deliverables for new course development and course redevelopment.
• Coordinate faculty and subject-matter expert participation in course development and establish expectations for timely content development and review.
• Ensure courses are appropriately developed, reviewed, integrated, and available according to established institutional timelines.
• Provide regular course-readiness and production reports to Academic Affairs leadership.
• Proactively identify and elevate risks that could affect upcoming course starts or student access.

Instructional Design Leadership & Supervision

• Provide leadership and direct supervision to University Instructional Designer(s) and other assigned academic technology or course-development personnel.
• Establish priorities, production expectations, project assignments, timelines, and performance measures for instructional design activities.
• Monitor workload, project progress, deliverables, and resource needs.
• Provide…