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Are you interested in making a difference in the lives of others? At McGraw Hill the Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA will help plan and develop instructional materials for Literacy programs that are delivered in both print and digital formats.   

What is this role about? 

McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is looking for a Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA for our K-12 division literacy programs. 

This position is fully remote but can also be based in one of our McGraw Hill offices. This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) position. Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. 

You will be a valuable member of a collaborative group of Instructional Designers, closely partnering with teams focused on content, product management, UX, and creative media. As part of this team, you will create robust digital tools, curriculum and learning solutions in a variety of formats that are used by millions of educators and students every day. Senior Instructional Designer, ELA/SLA is a digital savvy content and curriculum expert, responsible and accountable for assembling high-quality content based on specific product requirements for the Literacy programs.  

What you will be doing:   

• Contribute to specific early product workstreams, under the direction of management and senior members of the team.
• Contribute to the Implementation Model, Journey Maps, and course maps. Contribute heavily in regards to the creation of POC’s and prototypes.
• Through a UBD process, you will design, storyboard, and develop digital curriculum assets such as videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, games and virtual labs. 
• Contribute to concept meetings, review manuscript, create storyboards, contribute during alpha and beta builds for digital assets. 
• Provide heavy contributions with digital tools, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
• Strong contributions with user testing, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team.
• Provide informal product training to associate instructional designers. 
• Be experts in accessibility with strong contributions to this area throughout the product development process. 
• Strong contributions to the product build process.
• Manage AD vendors and freelancers writing guidelines, answering questions, scheduling and leading weekly vendor status meetings.
• Lead approved workflows at all stages and meet all intermediate and final schedules. 
• Contribute on cross-functional teams to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met and on completed on time.  
• Lead during digital launches with vendors including helping to create templates, trackers, and digital content development guidelines. 
• Identify and suggest digital solutions for issues that arise during development. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements as they arise in authoring tools and the platform. When necessary, help define requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements.
• Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing. 
• QA the work of the vendor to ensure it adheres to guidelines.

We’re looking for someone with: 

• 4+ years experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials. 
• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or related field required.  
• Experience managing multiple projects within tight deliverables and budgets. 
• Strong ability to communicate.
• Some experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems. 
• Some ability to create and visualize animated and interactive content. 
• Bilingual recommended, Spanish desired. 
• A success candidate may have previous K-5 teaching experience.

Here’s what we offer: 

At McGraw Hill, you will be empowered to make a real impact on a global scale. Every day your individual efforts can contribute to the lives of millions.   

The pay range for this position is between $62,000 – $75,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Click hereto learn more about our benefit offerings. 

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