Instructional Designer, Texas Career Engagement

Job Posting Title:

Instructional Designer, Texas Career Engagement

Hiring Department:

Texas Career Engagement Career Services

Position Open To:

All Applicants

Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

Job Details:

General Notes

Texas Career Engagement is reimagining the way students, alumni, employers, faculty, and staff prepare for the future of work together—by engaging around career in a way that is interdisciplinary and innovative. We do this by connecting employers from around the world with the talent at UT Austin, and by collaborating with campus partners to ensure that every undergraduate and graduate student has access to a variety of career education, experiences and opportunities. For more information please visit: http://careerengagement.utexas.edu.

Your Skills Will Make a Difference.

You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for our academic programs and research. Your work will contribute to operational excellence and enhance the student experience. If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working in our department and for UT Austin. UT Austin provides an outstanding benefits package including but not limited to:

• Competitive health benefits (employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
• Voluntary Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
• Generous paid vacation, sick time, and holidays
• Teachers Retirement System of Texas, a defined benefit retirement plan, with employer matching funds
• Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
• Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
• Robust free training access through LinkedIn Learning plus professional conference opportunities
• Tuition assistance
• Expansive employee discount program including athletic tickets
• Free access to UT Austin’s libraries and museums with staff ID card
• Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Austin CapMetro buses with staff ID card
• For more details, please see: https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective/benefits and https://hr.utexas.edu/current/services/my-total-rewards .

Purpose

UT Austin is seeking an innovative, creative, and curious instructional designer to join a new Career Success initiative to integrate a life design framework across the Forty Acres. The Life Design Instructional Designer plays a pivotal role in designing instructional programs, curriculum, and materials related to the campus-wide implementation of life design at UT-Austin. Life design is a framework that helps students to design a career and life of purpose through being curious, developing connections, trying stuff out, and personal storytelling. This individual will collaborate closely with the colleges, schools, and units (CSUs) to design, develop, and implement innovative learning experiences. Working closely with the director of life design, this individual will implement an assessment strategy to measure the success of life design offerings. The life design team is housed within Career Success, which serves as the central nerve center to the career ecosystem at UT Austin.

Responsibilities

• Curriculum Development: Working in tandem with colleges/schools, career centers and campus partners, develop course outlines, syllabi, assessments, and learning activities that are aligned with life design program objectives and meet quality standards.
• Instructional Design and Materials Creation: Employ instructional design principles and techniques to create engaging and effective learning experiences, utilizing a variety of instructional strategies and technologies. Create high-quality learning materials in Canvas, PowerPoint, Canva, websites, and create printed materials.
• Instructor Support: Work in collaboration with instructors and staff that will be teaching life design modules and workshops to best use curriculum and instructional resources.
• Assessment Development: Develop and implement assessment strategies to measure student learning outcomes and provide feedback for continuous improvement.
• Professional Development: Participate in professional development activities to stay current on life design education and instructional development.
• Other duties as assigned to support Career Success

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Teaching and facilitation experience, preferably in a higher education setting.
• Proficiency in educational technology tools and platforms.
• Experience with learning management systems (LMS) such as Canvas.
• Strong design skills, especially in Canva and PowerPoint.
• Experience with Qualtrics to create assessment tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in education technology, instructional design, or higher education (other master’s degrees will be considered)
• Teaching experience in higher education
• Training and/or certifications in life design
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and universal design for learning.

Salary Range

$65,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

Standard office environment. Work will be performed in person on the UT main campus in Austin, Texas.

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded. Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

Employment Eligibility:

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers. Staff who are promotion/transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

Retirement Plan Eligibility:

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background Checks:

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The University of Texas at Austin, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

Pay Transparency:

The University of Texas at Austin will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

Employment Eligibility Verification:

If hired, you will be required to complete the federal Employment Eligibility Verification I-9 form. You will be required to present acceptable and original documents to prove your identity and authorization to work in the United States. Documents need to be presented no later than the third day of employment. Failure to do so will result in loss of employment at the university.

E-Verify:

The University of Texas at Austin use E-Verify to check the work authorization of all new hires effective May 2015. The university’s company ID number for purposes of E-Verify is 854197. For more information about E-Verify, please see the following:

• E-Verify Poster (English) [PDF]
• E-Verify Poster (Spanish) [PDF]
• Right To Work Poster (English) [PDF]
• Right To Work Poster (Spanish) [PDF]

Compliance:

Employees may be required to report violations of law under Title IX and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). If this position is identified a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified and provided resources for reporting. Responsible employees under Title IX are defined and outlined in HOP-3031.

The Clery Act requires all prospective employees be notified of the availability of the Annual Security and Fire Safety report. You may access the most recent report here or obtain a copy at University Compliance Services, 1616 Guadalupe Street, UTA 2.206, Austin, Texas 78701.

About Organization

The University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest public universities in the United States. Founded in 1883, the University has grown from a single building, eight teachers, two departments and 221 students to a 350-acre main campus with 21,000 faculty and staff, 16 colleges and schools and more than 50,000 students.