The State University of New York
Senior Instructional Designer
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Albany, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $75K - $88K
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ December 27th, 2024
D2L
Brightspace
Edtech.com's Summary
The State University of New York is hiring a SUNY Online Senior Instructional Designer in a hybrid model. The role involves providing instructional design support for online courses and faculty development, conducting online course reviews, and enhancing teaching resources.
Highlights
- Responsible for delivering online instructional design services, including faculty development training and conducting course reviews using the SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR).
- Develop and lead informational webinars on topics related to online course quality, particularly within the DLE Brightspace environment.
- Provide instructional design support and services as per the SUNY Online Service Level Agreement (SLA).
- Engage in community practice and manage resources to enhance online educational materials.
- Master’s degree in Education, Instructional Design, or a related field required, with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
- Expertise in D2L Brightspace and conducting standards-based online course quality reviews required.
- Salary range: $75,000-$88,000 annually, with benefits including NYS health insurance, retirement options, tuition assistance, and generous paid time off.
- Part of the United University Professions Union, offering excellent benefits such as fully funded pension and flexible work arrangements.
Senior Instructional Designer Full Description
The State University of New York, or SUNY, is the largest comprehensive system of public higher education in the United States, with 64 colleges and universities spanning the state from Long Island to the Adirondacks to Buffalo. SUNY System Administration employees, based in Albany and New York City, provide critical support for SUNY campuses, employees, and students to advance SUNY's mission of providing high-quality, affordable higher education for all.
Across a wide range of roles, from finance and legal counsel to student support, academic affairs, IT, admissions, and more, our employees work toward advancing the four priority pillars established by SUNY Chancellor John B. King Jr. and the SUNY Board of Trustees: student success; research and scholarship; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and economic development and upward mobility. SUNY System Administration is a mission-driven workplace with robust New York State benefits including health insurance, retirement, time off, and paid family leave.
Job Description:
The SUNY Online Senior Instructional Designer is responsible for delivering online instructional design services, including the ID drop-in services, informational webinars, and online faculty development training contracted for by SUNY campuses under our Service Level Agreement; conducting online course reviews using SUNY Online Course Quality Review Rubric (OSCQR) and providing webinars and consultations in the use of OSCQR to support online course quality; and assisting in the development of materials and resources to support the activities and initiatives of SUNY Online Teaching unit within the SUNY Online organization. This role involves providing online instructional design supports and services, writing and updating materials and resources for the SUNY Online Teaching community, making suggestions for improvements, and contributing to unit activities.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Instructional Design:
- Provide expertise in online instructional design to support the delivery of online courses, programs, and initiatives for SUNY campuses and other stakeholders to ensure the delivery of high-quality online education.
Training, Development & Webinar Facilitation:
- Develop, improve, and lead information webinars on a variety of topics of interest to SUNY online instructional designers, campuses, and online faculty initiatives, particularly related to the DLE Brightspace environment, the use and implementation of the OSCQR rubric, and related tools and resources to support online course quality and continuous improvement to SUNY campuses.
- Contribute to and deliver webinars that highlight relevant topics and showcase SUNY Online Teaching resources.
SLA Implementation:
- Provide instructional design and online teaching supports and services as outlined in the SUNY Online Service Level Agreement (SLA).
OSCQR Support:
- Offer expert-level OSCQR and instructional design support, consultations in the use of the tools are resources, online course reviews, and drop-in support services for faculty and instructional designers.
Resource Management:
- Develop, maintain, and enhance SUNY Online Teaching resources, tools, and materials. Stay informed/engaged with trends and changes in online education.
Community Engagement:
- Actively participate in the SUNY Online Teaching Community of Practice and contribute to the SUNY Online Teaching social media and blog content to share information, build awareness, foster engagement within the online teaching community.
Event Coordination:
- Assist with the planning and execution of the SUNY Online Summit and other significant SUNY Online community events.
Requirements:
Required Qualifications:
- A Master's degree in Education, Instructional Design, or a related field, or a relevant combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
- Expertise in D2L Brightspace.
- Experience conducting standards-based online course quality reviews.
- Experience working with online faculty to develop effective online courses.
- Experience developing and delivering training, webinars, and materials to support online faculty and course development.
- Strong knowledge of online instructional design and accessibility principles and effective practices.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Online teaching experience.
- 5 years relevant experience.
- Expertise in OSCQR.
- Certification in OSCQR, Quality Matters, or equivalent.
- Experience working in a higher education setting and knowledge of emerging technologies used in online, remote, hybrid, and hyflex learning environments.
- Experience, or certifications in UDL, and tools and approaches to ensure accessibility for all.
- Experience with YouTube, WordPress, Microsoft Teams, and related technologies.
Additional Information:
- Salary is dependent on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, experience, education, training, and certifications. The range for this position is $75,000-$88,000 annually.
- This position is Senior Staff Assistant (SL-3) and is part of the United University Professions Union.
- Excellent Benefit Package which includes: NYS health insurance, free dental and vision coverage, competitive retirement options, tuition assistance, parental leave at full pay, and generous vacation, sick, and holiday time. Generous amount of time off: 13 days of paid holidays per year; 15 days of vacation and 15 days of sick time accrued for the first year of employment. Then increases thereafter. Please see our UUP benefits summary for additional information.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
SUNY System Administration Benefits
SUNY System Administration provides an outstanding and comprehensive benefits package to support you and your family through the many life changes you may experience while you work for SUNY. Our nationally recognized benefits include:
- Retirement: The choice between a fully funded pension plan and a self-driven defined contribution plan, along with two supplemental plans to increase your ability to save for retirement.
- Health Insurance: Several health insurance options at an affordable cost that provide full coverage without mandatory deductibles.
- Time Off: Paid time off with separate vacation and sick leave accruals up to 21 days a year for each category.
- Additional paid leave policy options for childbirth, adoption, elder care, and other family care situations.
- Flexible Working Arrangements: Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid schedules, are available depending on position.
Explore our full benefits offerings here: www.suny.edu/benefits
Application Instructions:
Interested candidates are invited to apply online. Please submit a cover letter, resume and four professional references when applying. The review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
State University of New York System Administration is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, or retaliation.
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@oer.ny.gov.
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