Roles and Responsibilities

– Provide leadership, direction, advocacy, communication, coordination, and assessment of the academic unit as a whole and of the sub-units (departments and/or programs) within it.

– Work cooperatively in establishing and monitoring a budget that enhances and supports the academic unit’s mission and sub-units. Monitoring will include allocating funds to sub-units and transmitting recommended budgetary transfers among sub-units.

– Ensure the establishment of learning pedagogy and enhance the unit’s academic integrity, focusing the core functions on its essential academic mission.

– Determines and develops appropriate training solutions for assigned projects based on the outcome of analyzing business needs, performance goals, and audience.

– Participates in the program design process by conducting: needs assessments, task analysis; research of knowledge tasks; working with subject matter experts for validation; and creating supporting design documents, including storyboards and mock-ups. The development includes: constructing end-user classroom materials, facilitator guides, assessments, and writing supporting documentation.

– Design data collection strategy and methods to measure the learning and industry relevance.

– Collaborate to design engaging, impactful user interfaces, prototypes, and graphic design elements for use within websites and eLearning media; provide creative direction on interactivity, imagery, and branding.

– Review and test internal, vendor-created, and other media for the organization and/or deployment via LMS systems.

– Researches current industry best practices in learning and eLearning and applies them to instructional solutions.

Desired Candidate Profile

– Ph.D. in the technical field (Computer Science or Machine Learning).

– 5 + years of experience in Instructional Design in the industry, understanding adult learning principles is a big plus.

– Knowledge of LMS systems and creating compliant content that functions within an LMS Knowledge of Web-based Training (WBT) creation, along with creating media such as audio, video, custom animations/interactions, custom graphics, etc.

– Experience providing instructional design across modalities (i.e. face-to-face, hybrid, or online courses).

– Visual design – knowledge and experience in how to craft the visual experience that works best with course content.

– Experience design – knowledge and experience creating user interfaces that facilitate the best learning experience.

– Must have demonstrated skill of getting things done i.e. a strong execution skill. Hands-on experience in a startup or a competitive environment.