Associate Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA
McGraw Hill
About the Role
The Associate Instructional Designer, 6-12 ELA will help develop instructional materials for K-12 literacy programs, delivered in both print and digital formats. This role involves creating digital tools, curriculum, and learning solutions.
This is a remote position.
This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 08/31/2027.
Key Responsibilities
- Learn and apply design principles, backwards design, and design thinking concepts.
- Contribute to concept meetings, prepare manuscript needs, and support the build for digital assets.
- Partner with Instructional Designers during product development, contributing to build phases under senior team leadership.
- Maintain accountability for the accuracy and upkeep of build documentation.
- Become an expert in accessibility and contribute throughout the product development process.
- Contribute to the product build process.
- Meet all intermediate and final schedules.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met on time.
- Identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements in authoring tools and the platform.
- Help define requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements.
- Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
- QA vendor work to ensure adherence to guidelines.
- Demonstrate technical, functional, and professional expertise in position-related areas, staying informed on current developments and trends.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Experience with authoring tools, learning management systems (LMS), and content management systems (CMS).
- Ability to visualize and create animated and interactive content.
- Familiarity with Agile methodology and practices, including collaboration in iterative workflows.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or a related field required.
- 0-2 years’ experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
- A successful candidate may have previous 6-12 teaching experience.
Compensation
The pay range for this position is between $40,000 - $55,000 annually.