The College of New Jersey. (TCNJ)
Instructional Designer
🇺🇸 Ewing Township, NJ
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $62K - $71K
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ January 31st, 2025
ADDIE
Canvas
WCAG
Edtech.com's Summary
The College of New Jersey is hiring an Instructional Designer. This role involves collaborating with faculty to design accessible, technology-enhanced courses incorporating active learning and innovative teaching strategies. The designer will focus on online course development and support general instructional needs, contributing significantly to faculty professional development through consultations and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Highlights
- Collaborate with faculty to create engaging online learning activities and ensure course accessibility.
- Design courses in Canvas and utilize various educational technology tools.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and support ongoing course revisions and quality reviews.
- Assist with special projects such as video production and support the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
- Requires expertise in Canvas, ADDIE model, backward design, and various educational software tools.
- Compensation ranges from $61,674.62 to $70,933.32 annually.
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and at least five years of instructional design experience.
- Benefit offerings include medical, dental, pension plans, and an Employee Assistance Program.
Instructional Designer Full Description
Instructional Designer
Description
To enrich education through diversity, The College of New Jersey is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse staff committed to teaching and working in a diverse environment, and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans.
Job Title: Instruction Designer
Job Category: AFT, Range 21
Close Date: February 18, 2025
Salary: $61,674.62 - $70,933.32
Position Summary:
The Instructional Designer will collaborate with faculty subject matter experts to design accessible courses that incorporate active learning, innovative teaching strategies, and appropriate use of technology tools to ensure that the College is producing polished, professional courses that meet diverse student needs in the
growing online marketplace. The instructional designer will contribute to faculty professional development by offering individualized consultations and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. 90% of the instructional designer’s time will focus on online courses and programs; 10% will support the College’s
general instructional design needs.
The successful candidate will possess an in-depth knowledge of a wide range of instructional design strategies. They will be well-experienced in instructional design principles, such as the ADDIE model and backward design, to ensure alignment between learning outcome, assessments, and activities. They will
have advanced technical skills to support the creation of high touch, high quality online learning experiences and have experience with the pedagogical practices that support learning.
Main Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with subject matter expert faculty to create engaging learning activities in support of excellence in course design.
- Design course assets in Canvas and using educational technology tools and flow course content into course shells.
- Verify accessibility of course components.
- Troubleshoot technical issues.
- Support course development process and ongoing course revisions, and complete course quality reviews.
- Assist faculty with special projects (e.g., video recording and creation).
- Support the operations of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in instructional technology, instructional design, or education required, with at least 5 years of experience working in instructional design, teaching and learning with technology, or a directly related field; or, an equivalent combination of training and experience.
- At least two years of experience with Learning Management Systems, and supporting software solutions.
- Ability to work with and train in both a PC and Mac environments.
- Knowledge and experience in the educational applications of social media technologies.
- Active participation in professional organizations and professional development programs relevant to the position.
- Advanced knowledge of learning theories and instructional design principles. Skilled at providing both pedagogy and technology expertise support to faculty in all disciplines to produce engaging courses with strong teacher presence.
- Knowledge of online program quality measurement schemes such as the OLC Quality Scorecard, the QM Rubric, or other similar models.
- Expertise in designing in Canvas with significant knowledge of a menu of educational technology tools. Familiarity with CidiLabs DesignPlus, Articulate 360,Adobe Captivate is highly desirable.
- Advanced computer and software skills, particularly Canvas; course development software; web conferencing systems; screen/lecture capture systems; basic video production; content management systems (WordPress preferred), assessment systems, HTML, MS Office, Google tools, and Adobe
Creative Cloud. - Demonstrated proficiency in applying WCAG accessibility skills and Universal Design for Learning principles.
- Excellent visual design and storyboarding skills.
- Possess excellent attention to detail and skills in written and oral communication, customer service, and presentation design and delivery.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work with a variety of cultures, backgrounds and age levels.
- Commitment to learning and adapting cutting-edge technologies for support of online and blended learning.
Persons with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations in order to perform the essential functions of the position. If the requested accommodation(s) cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, the applicant may not be eligible for the position.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's or advanced degree preferred.
- Previous professional teaching and professional development training experience; experience in higher education preferred.
Employer Qualifications:
- Final offer of employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and reference checks.
- Residency Requirement: In accordance with the New Jersey First Act P.L. 2011 c.70, effective September 1, 2011, new public employees in certain positions (faculty exempt) are required to obtain New Jersey residency within one (1) year of employment. Applicants must meet the requirements listed.
About TCNJ
TCNJ is a highly selective institution that has earned national recognition for its commitment to excellence. Founded in 1855, TCNJ has become an exemplar of the best in public higher education and is consistently acknowledged as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the nation. TCNJ currently is ranked as one of the 75 "Most Competitive" schools in the nation by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges and is rated the No. 1 public institution in the northern region of the country by U.S. News & World Report. TCNJ was named the #10 value in public higher education by the Princeton review in 2009 and, in 2006, was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter - an honor shared by less than 10 percent of colleges and universities nationally. A strong liberal arts core forms the foundation for programs offered through TCNJ's seven schools - Arts & Communication; Business; Education; Humanities and Social Sciences; Science; Nursing, Health, and Exercise Science; and Engineering. TCNJ faculty members are teacher-scholars who share a commitment to liberal learning. TCNJ is located within an hour, by train, of New York City and Philadelphia. The College's campus is set on 289 tree-lined acres in suburban Ewing Township and is known for its natural beauty and has 39 major buildings.
Employee Benefits:
As a member of The College of New Jersey Community, you will be a part of an exciting and rewarding public university career. Eligible full-time employees will be able to take advantage of a generous benefits package that includes health, welfare, and retirement benefits, including:
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental and prescription plans
- Generous leave entitlements program and Energy Savings Program
- Employee and dependent Tuition Waiver and Reimbursement Program
- Pension, retirement, and deferred compensation plans, group life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee affinity groups
- New Jersey State Employee Discount Program (Pet insurance, cell phone plan discounts, discounted amusement park tickets, etc.)
- Access to extensive learning opportunities
To view a comprehensive list of benefits available to employees, visit our Health Benefits Plans and Programs page to learn more!
Application Instructions
Qualified candidates should apply online at: careers@tcnj.edu and submit a letter of interest, resume (CV), as well as the names and contact information for three professional references. Applications will be considered until a viable candidate is selected.
Primary Location: Library - Office of Instructional Design
Work Locations:
Library - Office of Instructional Design
2000 Pennington Rd
Ewing Township 08628
Library - Office of Instructional Design
2000 Pennington Rd
Ewing Township 08628
Job: Staff
Organization: The College of New Jersey
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