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Instructional Design

Learning Design Managers provide leadership to a learning design team; develop a comprehensive strategy to meet the teaching and learning needs of an area; lead a learning design team in delivering expert, consultative services to academic partners in the areas of instructional design, educational technology evaluation and integration, and teaching and learning research initiatives.

• Provide leadership and direction to a learning design office or learning design team; establish goals, quality assurance practices, and assessment methods; prioritize deliverables; manage workflow and project scheduling to ensure a high level of service to academic partners
• Manage a team of learning design staff; promote the research, application, and evaluation of technological approaches; develop and deliver development opportunities
• Identify opportunities to leverage and integrate innovative digital learning models, emerging production technologies, experimental approaches, and pedagogical theories with the aim of increasing learner engagement
• Establish the online education mission and vision for a college; plan for future development and growth to meet unit needs including staffing, resources allocation, equipment access
• Develop funding models; plan and administer the budget; oversee grants; advise on and identify opportunities for pedagogical research initiatives
• Represent the unit on committees and at events; build collaborative relationships with faculty, academic leadership, program directors, World Campus, and other educational institutions, and vendors; contribute to the larger learning design community at the University to improve teaching and learning strategies; interpret and recommend policies that impact instructional delivery
• Design and implement development opportunities for faculty and to engage with new research in the field of learning technology; assess the potential impact of new technologies

Level:

– Principal Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates awareness of broad issues and management trends. Applies exemplary management principles. Evaluates impact of policy and adjusts accordingly. Ensures appropriate skills are developed and maintained within team/unit. Realigns staff responsibilities to meet desired changes. Provides administrative and policy direction. Develops and articulates broad goals. Fosters collaboration between units. Engages in written and verbal communications that reach a university-wide and/or broad external audience. Develops and implements solutions to highly complex and often controversial problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees teams of other supervisors/managers
– Leads a business unit

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Plans, forecasts, develops, and/or approves budgets
– Typically has final signature authority for business unit

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that may have a significant impact on multiple units and/or the University
– Regularly develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve the most difficult problems
– Creates an environment that encourages imaginative solutions to problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined and may be frequently changing
– Sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Oversees completed work of others and is accountable for unit results
– Delegates advanced tasks to others and provides guidance to team members

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– May represent the University externally
– Collaborates closely with team members and other leaders across the University
– Communicates a compelling vision that inspires and motivates others

• Comp Grade – 15
• Minimum – $109,300.00
• MidPoint – $136,600.00
• Maximum – $164,000.00