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Western Governors University

Program Development Owner- School of Business

🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, UT

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $83K - $124K

💻 Project Management

🗓️ February 25th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

WGU is hiring a Program Development Owner for the School of Business. The role involves owning curriculum and assessment programs, ensuring their quality and relevance, and collaborating with various stakeholders to meet accreditation and regulatory standards. The position requires providing thought leadership in learning design and delivery while maintaining success metrics for program performance. 

Highlights 
  • Responsibilities include program quality management and ensuring curriculum and assessment alignment.
  • Requires skills in organizational and project management, data analytics, and online learning design.
  • Compensation range is between $82,900.00 and $124,300.00.
  • Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree and 4 years of professional experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a Master's degree and experience in online learning.
  • Offers benefits like medical, dental, retirement savings plan, and flexible paid time off.

Program Development Owner- School of Business Full Description

Program Development Owner- School of Business
Salt Lake City Office
Full time

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is: 

Pay Range: $82,900.00 - $124,300.00

Job Description
Essential Functions and Responsibilities: 
  • Owns curriculum and assessment within assigned programs, including relevance, quality, technical accuracy, functionality, and assessment validity.  Ensure timely delivery of quality programs.
  • Implements and ensures adherence to best practices in the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of assigned product portfolio. 
  • Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure programs meet all accreditation and regulatory requirements. Ensures alignment between curriculum and assessment. 
  • Provides thought leadership and recommend innovations in learning products, learning design, and delivery based on data analysis and learning science.
  • Evaluates and analyzes program and course performance as required for operation and quality improvement.
  • Develops and maintains success metrics and time, budget, and quality measures.
  • Contribute to critical documentation in support of the full product lifecycle. 
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills, including the ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and pay attention to detail
  • Understand product-level curriculum and assessment design and development
  • Strong online learning design and development skills
  • Clear understanding of user-experience best practices, including accessibility requirements
  • Ability to facilitate groups and meetings in person and remotely
  • Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently
  • Excellent written, oral, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to build relationships and influence at all levels, both internally and externally
  • Data analytics skills, including interpretation, synthesis, and formal presentation to key stakeholders
  • Proven ability to use data to make informed decisions (analyze root causes, design experiments and interventions with clear success measures, conduct retrospective analysis, etc.).
  • Detail-oriented, with proven ability to handle multiple tasks
  • Requires composure under pressure, dealing with ambiguity and comfort working closely with senior leadership

Job Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or discipline.
  • All applicable licenses or certifications.
  • 4 years of relevant professional experience.
  • Experience in online education, standardized testing, or educational publishing
  • Experience interacting effectively with cross-organizational teams

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master's degree in a related field or discipline.
  • Experience with online learning and change management.

Physical Requirements:
  • Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  • Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

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Position & Application Details
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information
Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive. 

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.