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The Instructional Designer will partner with Harmony Academy staff (content and Instructional Designers) to support a series of student-facing PowerPoints aligned to the current Harmony Curriculum Units, Lessons, and Activities. Using draft PowerPoint content, a set template (by grade bands), and Harmony Curriculum lesson content. Based on need, the Instructional Designer may also be asked to support Teacher, Leader, and School Certificates for the Harmony Academy. Using content from the Harmony Academy team, develop a series of courses in D2L Brightspace for both asynchronous and blended learning.
Essential Functions:
- Work with Content team leaders and Technology team to finalize key features and a structure for the format of slides.
- Create and Design provided Harmony content in a PowerPoint format keeping in mind the grade level of the learners and ease of teacher use.
- Populate notes section of slide with relevant lesson instructions taken directly from Harmony lessons.
- Offer suggestions for content items as it relates to presentation in a multimedia format.
- Make note of any errors on the Harmony online portal as reviewing content for the PowerPoint Slides
- Attend content check-ins to ensure consistency and adhere to tight timelines for delivery.
- Participate in project management scrum meetings as needed.
- Translate content into learning activities and assignments, using adult learning principles and instructional design best practices.
- Create learning activities and assignments that are engaging and useful for users.
- Ensure that assessments and assignments are aligned with the appropriate rigor based on the course numbers that they are aligned to within National University.
- Partner with the Content and Technology team to ensure courses align with Harmony Academy branding and structure.
Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A
Requirements:
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree required in education, instructional design, or related field required, master’s degree preferred
- Three (3) years’ relevant instructional design experience.
- Three (3) years’ experience in adult learning, preferably within educational publishing; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Familiarity with Pre-K through high school, schools and community-based organizations for profit and non-profit sectors with a strong knowledge in child development.
- Highly preferred:
- Content knowledge of social and emotional learning
- Project Management experience
- Experience in educational publishing
Competencies/Technical/Functional Skills:
- Ability to participate as an active team member of the team and organization and work toward a common goal. Contributes fully to the team effort and plays an integral part in the smooth running of teams without necessarily taking the lead.
- Accepts personal accountability, proactively seeks resolution for personal limitations head-on; and supports honesty and respect towards others, the company and oneself.
- Actively seeks to influence, build effective relationships and gain alignment with peers, functional partners and/or external partners to accomplish business objectives.
- Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting-edge programs/processes. Ability to generate and/or recognize imaginative or creative solutions that generate successful outcomes.
- Working knowledge, principles and practices of office management/systems within a higher education environment, preferred. Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues.
- Ability to drive towards achieving measurable and challenging goals to support organizational success. Demonstrates the ability to focus on achieving results consistent with the organization’s objectives. As a leader, develops goals based on the organization’s vision, mission, strategic goals and objectives.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of individual of constituencies in a diverse community.
- Work independently and foster a cooperative spirit within a large and/or small team of diverse cultures, while working in a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and frequently changing priorities.
- Intermediate use of computers and Microsoft Office Suite Applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook. Experience using Student Information System (SIS).
Location: Remote
Travel: No Travel
Candidate receiving offers will be offered a salary/pay rate commensurate with experience that vary based on a candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. Absent exceptional circumstances, candidates will be offered a salary within this range for this position. The minimum salary will be offered based on the minimum exemption threshold based on state of residency. Base pay is one component of National University’s total rewards package, as we are dedicated to supporting the needs of the “whole you” with our holistic approach to employee benefits by offering comprehensive well-being benefits for you and your family. For full details about our benefit plan offerings, please visit
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: $0.00 - $0.00 National University is committed to maintaining a high-quality, diverse workforce representative of the populations we serve. National University employs more than 5,000 faculty and staff and serves over 41,000 students. We are united in our mission to meet the global education demands of the 21st Century and are dedicated to creating a supportive academic and work environment that allows students, faculty and staff to develop their interests and talents while experiencing a sense of community and a commitment to diversity. With programs available both online and at our many campus locations, National University is a leader in creating innovative solutions to education and meeting the needs of our diverse student population, including adult learners and working professionals.
National University offers an opportunity to work in an innovative environment that supports diversity.
National University (NU) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant per applicable federal, state and local laws. At NU, a diverse mix of highly talented, innovative and creative people come together to make the impact of a lifetime for each of our student learners. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment, education, and admission at National University. We are focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, color, ancestry, age, family care status, veteran status, marital status, creed, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and other legally protected group status.
