Assistant Director Online Teaching and Course Development

Title:
Assistant Director Online Teaching and Course Development

Department:
Assoc Provost for Online Programs

Reports To:
Associate Provost for Online Programs

Position Type:
Staff

Position Summary:
The position is principally responsible for the
coordination and implementation of plans for delivering
and evaluating a broad range Instructional Design services in support of the efficient and effective use of
digital technologies in teaching and learning.

The position coordinates the
work of a team instructional designers providing best practice guidance for the
use of technology in multiple course delivery modes; and works closely with
faculty, program directors, program advisors, and both internal/external
service partners in the on-going planning and delivery of digital programs and
courses.

As the day-to-day lead in support of Instructional Design services, the position is expected to exhibit a high level
of creativity and resourcefulness, is competent to work on fairly complex
digital learning initiatives with minimal supervision, and can coordinate
multiple projects concurrently.

The position works closely
and collaboratively with students, faculty, and staff to implement the
university's plans for digital learning; and partners with the IST (Instructional Services and Technology) and CEIE (Center for Educational and Innovational Excellence) departments to build a university-wide IT infrastructure that seamlessly supports existing credit and non-credit online education initiatives.

In
collaboration with the marketing team members, generate content that focuses on
the online student learning experience and provide insight that translates into
impactful strategies for the online marketing campaign.

Essential Functions:
-Coordinates and co-evaluates the work of
instructional designers, learning support specialists and LMS
administrative specialists.
-Works closely with faculty, directors, and program partners in developing plans
for digital programs and online course development;
manages the assignment of instructional designers working with faculty on contracted
individual course development projects; monitors and reports regularly on
the status of these projects.
-Working with central university and unit-based leadership, develop
policies - and the infrastructure/processes - that support the responsible
development and delivery or online education for all NJIT campuses.
-Develop highly intentional online education professional
development and processes that support online education for all NJIT
faculty.
-In partnership with the Associate Provost for Online programs,
develop quantitative resource allocation-based matrices that account for
instructional design team members' labor and effort.
-In partnership with Digital Marketing and Enrollment team, develop
digital on-demand student facing collateral that will heighten prospective
student engagement and lead generation.
-Ensures that quality standards adopted for
digital course delivery are incorporated into course design; and provides
strategies for faculty to manage student learning in digital environments
and provides support mechanisms for such.
-Manages operational communications and
relationships with internal and external partners including vendors) in the design and
delivery of online digital programs.
-Creates, designs, and leads presentations,
workshops, discussions, and individual meetings with faculty and
instructional staff on best practices for course design, pedagogy,
assessment, applications of instructional technology and a variety of
related topics.
-Stays
abreast of current regulations and standards covering online and digital
programs and works with colleagues to ensure digital and online programs
meet state, federal and accrediting body standards, including accessibility guidelines.
-Supports
the development of new programs by preparing and delivering presentations
at appropriate venues.
-Collaborating
with IST to continually evaluate new opportunities for innovation within
online learning.
-Demonstrates proficiency leveraging Artificial Intelligence based instructional design applications that foster new pedagogical approaches and efficiencies at scale.

Additional Functions:
-Keeps
current with emerging technologies, new products, methodologies,
applications, and trends in the context of digital learning best
practices.
-Works
on specialized cross-departmental marketing projects, complex projects and
other duties as assigned.
-Providing insight on prospective partnerships with third party
vendors.
-Analyze data analytics student performance and engagement and make
recommendations for course improvements.

Prerequisite Qualifications:
-This position requires a Master's degree
in education, instructional design, or a related Field.
-Four to Six years
progressive higher education experience working with faculty
applying best practice principles of instructional design and application
of educational technology to enhance the delivery of instruction;
demonstrated experience working with faculty individually and in small groups.
-Demonstrated experience in project
management and coordinating the work of others in a non-supervisory role.
-Proven ability to work well in a team
environment.
-Demonstrated creativity and problem-solving
skills.
-Excellent oral and written communication
skills.
-At the university's
discretion, the education and experience prerequisites may be excepted where
the candidate can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the university, an
equivalent combination of education and experience specifically preparing the
candidate for success in the position.

Preferred Qualifications:
-Experience
with Instructional Design principles and Quality Matters.
-Demonstrated
experience building and managing courses on an admin level within a
learning management systems and related technologies.
-Experience
leveraging AI-informed instructional design and content-generation
applications.
-Experience with external, vendor-based online course delivery platform integrations (e.g., Coursera).

Bargaining Unit:
PSA

Range/Band:
26

FLSA:
Exempt
Full-Time