Instructional Design Specialist

Blinn College

Position Information

Requisition Number: 2023062P

Position Title: Instructional Design Specialist

Salary Range: $43,028 + experience

DBM Rating: C41

Job Type: Full Time

Job Category: Professional/ Staff 

Anticipated Start Date: 07/ 05/ 2023

Campus: Breham 

Application Deadline: 

Extended Deadline: 

FLSA: Exempt 

Security Sensitive? Yes 

Work Hours: 8:00 AM-5:00 PM (M-F)

Position Summary Information

Objective:

Provide assistance to faculty in the design and development of effective web0enhanced, blended, and online courses utilizing evidence-based instructional methods, support institutions’ efforts for increasing quality in course design. Design and coordinates training opportunities.

Required Quals Summary: 

• Bachelor’s degree with 18 credit hours in (either undergraduate or graduate level) education or related field.
• Experience with online course development applying nationally recognized design standards and pedagogical and adult learning theories.
• Expert in Windows and Office software.
• Expert knowledge of learning management systems.
• Experience with recording, converting, and editing digital video and audio.
• Experience in designing and delivering both online and face-to-face trainings.
• Experience designing accessible materials.

Special Notes To Applicants

This is a 12 month, benefits eligible position. Blinn College pays 100% of health insurance for full time employees, 50% for dependents, and two times your annual salary in life insurance benefits. Optional coverages can begin on your first active duty date. If you would like to review insurance benefits in advance, you can access the New Employee Benefits Guide online, http://www.ers.texas.gov/PDFs/NEBG-HE.pdf

Leave time includes 96 hours vacation, 40 hours discretionary and 16 hours personal each year and 8 hours sick each month. Paid leave for college designated holiday’s, spring break, Thanksgiving and Christmas break (approx. 25 days per year)

Quick Link: https://employment.blinn.edu/postings/11239

Position Details

Principal Accountabilities

Principal Accountabilities

• Apply relevant instructional design models to the design and development of online, blended, and web-enhanced learning environments.
• Assist faculty in developing instructional strategies and quality course materials.
• Provide technical, pedagogical, and adult learning theory assistance to faculty and staff.
• Maintain awareness of current and emerging technologies and pedagogical research.
• Develop and provide technical training materials and seminars including using the learning management system and other related software programs to support and promote quality course design.
• Assess and provide feedback on faculty-developed course materials for compliance with Blinn Distance Learning Guidelines and Standards and ADA standards.
• Participate in collaborative effort to streamline the design and delivery of online courses.
• Oversee and manage the Instructional Design Lab.
• Perform other related tasks as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 18 credit hours in undergraduate or graduate-level education or related field.
• Experience with online course development applying nationally recognized best practice standards and pedagogical, and adult learning theories.
• Expert in Windows and Office software.
• Expert knowledge of learning management systems.
• Experience with recording, converting, and editing digital video and audio.
• Experience in designing and delivering both online and face-to-face trainings.
• Experience designing accessible materials.

Minimum Competencies

Minimum Competencies

• Knowledge of technology-based instructional tools and software, learning management systems, and pedagogical and adult learning theories.
• Knowledgeable of different instructional design methodologies.
• Ability to analyze instructional-related tasks/projects.
• Ability to analyze curriculum and select technology solutions and enhancements as necessary.
• Strong oral and written skills.
• Ability to conduct effective group training sessions.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple departments.
• Knowledge and awareness of ADA compliance standards for online learning.
• Ability to work both independently and on a team.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

• Two or more years’ experience assisting technology utilization in a higher education environment (e.g. lecture capture systems, publisher course materials, student response systems).
• Experience in designing and implementing assessment strategies through the use of educational technology.
• Certification as a QM peer reviewer.
• Certification to teach face-to-face sessions of Applying the QM Rubric, Designing Your Online Course, and Improving Your Online Course.
• Accessibility certification.
• Experience in webpage and site development.
• Experience utilizing Quality Matters standards.
• Experience designing online courses for higher education classes.

Preferred Competencies

Preferred Competencies

• Ability to create online courses in compliance with Quality Matters standards.
• Ability to work in a virtual environment and a multi-campus environment.
• Advanced knowledge of the Desire2Learn learning management system.

Working Conditions

Are there particular working conditions associated with this job that should be noted (I.E., working environment, hours of work, workspace, etc.)?

• Yes

If ‘Yes’, please explain

• Hours may include regular business hours with some evening, weekend, and holiday hours.

Physical and Mental Requirements

Physical and Mental Requirements

• Moderate carrying, 15 to 44 lbs., Simple grasping, Walking, Standing, Sitting, Operating office equipment, Seeing, Identifying colors, Depth perception, Writing, Counting, Reading, Telling time, Hearing (with aid)

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Supplemental Questions

• * Do you have a master’s degree in Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Distance Learning, eLearning, or a related field?
  • Yes
  • No
• * How many years of related work experience do you have?
  • None
  • 1-2 years
  • 2 -3 years
  • 3 – 4 years
  • 5 + years
• * Do you have technical computer knowledge? 
  • Yes
  • No
  • Some
• * Please explain your knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite to include Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, SharePoint, Outlook, and Word.
  (Open Ended Question)
• * Please explain your experience with online course development applying instructional design, pedagogical, and adult learning theories.
  (Open Ended Question)
• * Which Learning Management Systems (LMS) do you have experience with?
  (Open Ended Question)
• * Do you have experience recording, converting and editing digital video and audio? Please explain.
  (Open Ended Question)
• * What experience do you have designing and delivering both online and face-to-face trainings?
  (Open Ended Question)
• * What experience and/or certifications do you have related to ADA accessibility requirements?
  (Open Ended Question)
• * What experience do you have integrating universal design principles into courses?
  (Open Ended Question)
• * What experience do you have working one-on-one with faculty who are designing courses?
  (Open Ended Question)
• * What experience do you have with Quality Matters, including courses completed and facilitator certifications. Please upload all QM certificates.
  (Open Ended Question)
• * Please explain your experience providing training to co-workers, small groups or large groups. Please give examples.
  (Open Ended Question)
• * How did you hear about this employment opportunity?
  • Advertisement (specify in next question below) 
  • Blinn Website
  • Blinn Employee
  • Internet Site (specify in next question below) 
  • Indeed
  • Higher Ed Jobs
  • HERC – Higher Education Recruitment Consortium 
  • TACC – Texas Association of Community Colleges
  • Other (specify in next question below) 
• * If in the previous question you selected “Advertisement”, “Internet Site”, or “Other”, please specify how you heard about this employment opportunity.
  (Open Ended Question)
• * To be eligible for employment in the U.S. and at Blinn College, will you now or in the future require Blinn College to commence (“sponsor”) an immigration case in order to employ you (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)? This is sometimes called “sponsorship” for an employment-based visa status. 
  • Yes, I will now or in the future need H-1B visa sponsorship
  • No, I will not need sponsorship now or in the future for an H-1B visa
• * Please choose all that apply below. If you answer yes to any below, please upload a copy of your DD214 or DD1300 in the optional documents section. For definition of claiming veteran’s employment preference please see the following website:http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/GV/pdf/GV.657.pdf) 
  • Yes, I am a veteran
  • Yes, I am a veteran’s surviving spouse who has not remarried
  • Yes, I am an orphan of a veteran who was killed while on active duty. 
  • Yes, I am claiming veteran’s employment preference. 
  • No, to all the above

Applicant Documents

Required Documents

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Teaching Philosophy

Optional Documents

• Curriculum Vitae
• Unofficial Other Transcripts 1
• Unofficial Other Transcripts 2
• Unofficial Other Transcripts 3
• Portfolio/Work Sample
• Other Document 1
• Other Document 2
• DD214 (required for Veteran’s or Veteran’s preference)
• DD1300 (required for orphan’s or surviving spouse

About Organization

Founded in 1883, Blinn is a comprehensive community college committed to educational excellence and to individual and community enhancement. With an enrollment of 19,581 students, Blinn ranks among the nation’s leaders in transferring students to leading four-year universities and has received national recognition for its affordable educational excellence.

For enrollment information and to learn about financial aid opportunities, visit www.blinn.edu.