Instructional Designer (Fully Remote Optional)

Details

• Salary Range: $72,000-$77,000 per year
• Hours: 40 hours per week
• Department: Institutional Effectiveness
• Closing Date: Open until filled

This position has the option to be fully remote with some expected quarterly visits to our campus in Portland, OR.

This position is intended to function as an architect and bridge between all educational and instructional technology at NUNM and institutional/programmatic effectiveness. While the role provides advanced and complex technical administration for all education technology (Canvas, Lecturio, VoiceThread etc.) in conjunction with front line academic, IT and AV support, its purpose extends beyond education technology troubleshooting. The Instructional Designer helps NUNM use its institutional and academic systems intentionally to measure student learning, program outcomes, and overall institutional effectiveness.

This position works closely with Executive leadership, program deans, faculty, academic support staff, IT & AV, and accreditation stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have the ability to:

• Understand both the technical and academic sides of an LMS environment.
• Build effective working relationships with faculty and provide support in a collaborative, service-oriented manner.
• Recognize the relationship between curriculum, learning outcomes, assessment, instructional design, and accreditation.
• Work independently while coordinating effectively across multiple academic and administrative departments.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate processes through technology.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Education Technology

• Serve as the advanced expert for all education technology including but not limited to: Canvas, Lecturio, Voice Thread, Proctorio, Kaltura and other related EdTech technologies, supporting ongoing configuration, organization, and improvement of the University’s Ed Tech environment in conjunction with IT.
• Coordinate with IT & AV, Canvas support (AV and Academic Support), and other vendors when escalation is necessary for complex troubleshooting and solutions.
• Develop and maintain procedures, documentation, training materials, and resources for education technology tools.
• Build and maintain Canvas outcomes, and support faculty and Canvas support with developing assignments, activities, rubrics and course structures in Canvas and other Ed Tech, aligning competencies to assignments so assessment data is collected automatically rather than manually.
• Coordinate the extraction and organization of Canvas and other Ed Tech assessments and rubric/quiz data for analysis and, where appropriate, import into centralized repository for institutional and programmatic effectiveness.

Academic Assessment

• Coordinate the University’s ongoing academic assessment processes in collaboration with academic leadership, program deans, faculty, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain and support curriculum maps, program outcomes, course outcomes, competencies, KPIs, assessment measures, and associated documentation within a centralized solution for measuring programmatic effectiveness.
• Assist programs with establishing appropriate assessment measures, course-level KPIs, benchmarks, and methods for evaluating student learning, including working with faculty to complete KPI designation in programs where it is still in progress.
• Coordinate established accreditation assessment reporting cycles and ensure required assessment information is collected, entered and reported in the institution’s assessment platform (currently SPOL) according to institutional timelines.
• Generate assessment reports centrally each term from Canvas and other Ed Tech data so program deans receive completed reports and assist academic leadership in identifying trends, areas of strength, and courses, outcomes, or program areas falling below established assessment benchmarks, with a brief summary of flagged courses for dean review.
• Document assessment findings and each course intervention using the institution’s standardized review rubric; maintain the intervention tracking log from identification through verified improvement; and schedule reassessment for the next offering of the course and report whether results improved.

Training, Documentation & Collaboration

• Provide group and individual training and ongoing support to faculty, staff, and deans on Education Technology and institutional assessment processes. …