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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:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 14
• Minimum – $97,100.00
• MidPoint – $121,400.00
• Maximum – $145,700.00