Lead Instructional Designer Embanet Corporation

ss partners with premier non-profit educational institutions by providing the capital and support needed to launch successful online degree programs with world-wide reach. EmbanetCompass is passionate about enabling the learners of the world to achieve their higher educational goals via an exceptional online learning experience. Our company is the only one that provides a true partnership that creates and extends online education programs for our academic partners and their students. We deliver student acquisition expertise, academic understanding and predictable business results through engaged minds of our people.



Take Your Career in a Positive, Exciting New Direction.

What is it like to work with EmbanetCompass? Our team atmosphere provides the best of both worlds: a highly professional yet friendly setting where you can do your best work, while collaborating with an affable group of respected, highly intelligent individuals that includes faculty, researchers, former deans, marketers, recruiters, instructional designers, and technologists. We enjoy our work, our colleagues and are passionate about our partners and students. Our strong growth has provided an opportunity for you to join our team in any of our locations: Orlando, Chicago (Elk Grove) or Toronto.



Lead Instructional Designer: Your Opportunity to Utilize your Digital Expertise.



Primary duties of this innovative role will include the following:

Manages assigned academic partner relationships for instructional design needs.

Develops and maintains consistent course models, standards, multimedia guidelines, and templates for assigned academic partners and stores documentation of each in a central repository.

Works closely with the business units to keep abreast of academic partner needs and to ensure common initiatives across functional departments.

Attends business unit meetings (as needed) and regularly presents thorough oral and written status reports to the business units and academic partners.

Leads the university ID teams in the development of new, revision, and revamp courses according to a common set of university standards and partner needs.

Runs monthly university ID team meetings to update IDs on partner course development initiatives.

Prepares presentational materials for academic partner workshops and business unit meetings.

Attends and presents at meetings and workshops with academic partners. (Up to 15% non-local travel may be required.)

Interfaces directly with academic partner Program Directors to set initiatives, escalate faculty-related course development issues, and proactively address partner needs.

Handles escalation of partner issues, content delays, etc. to the Embanet-Compass Directors/VPs and partner?s Managing Director; mediates when courses are upgraded unexpectedly by the academic partner faculty from Revision to Revamp.

Manages the development and revision of academic partners? orientation courses.

Confirms faculty assignments and introduces Embanet-Compass IDs in course kick-off calls.

Assists academic partners with accreditation and curriculum planning/development initiatives.

Researches, implements, and leads emerging technology initiatives for partners programs.

Works with Project Managers to ensure that schedules reflect an accurate course development process, time lines are being met, Wrike is up to date, and IDs are providing thorough status reports.

Attends and represents the Course Development department during academic partner steering committee meetings, as applicable.

Assists in developing evaluation tools for assessing effectiveness of courses within partner programs; sends course evaluation results to faculty and Program Directors.

Leads course hand-off meetings with the Student Support Services and Help Desk teams, ensuring that appropriate documentation and training has been provided to support courses.

Schedules post course conference calls with Program Director and faculty.

Updates Milestone Schedule B for Client Services, Finance Dept, Clients, etc; notifies of faculty progress to spark payments.



Qualifications

Knowledge of adult learning principles, constructivism, facilitation, and learner-centered activities
Ability to provide instructional design consulting services to subject matter experts
Minimum of a bachelor degree in education or a related degree; master?s degree preferred
Minimum of 3 years experience in instructional design with experience in designing authentic assessments and generative learning experiences.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience in learning management systems and html
Ability to be creative, flexible, and innovative in course design
Ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize, adhere to budgets, and meet deadlines
Exceptionally strong attention to detail.
Comfort in working within project management applications



It is also imperative for the candidate we seek to thrive in a performance-based environment. If you are a creative problem solver who values collaborative relationships, takes ownership, has the spirit to serve, and continues to pursue learning, then we want to talk to you.



Enjoy the Rewards of Leadership: Exceptional Compensation and Benefits

In return for your invaluable knowledge, skills, talent and ambition, EmbanetCompass offers competitive salaries and excellent benefits, including substantial tuition reimbursement for our advanced degree programs that EmbanetCompass supports, and much more.

Location:	Chicago, IL United States