Director of Instructional Design

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $92k - $98k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📚 Learning and Development

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Nectar.Inc

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

Education

Nectar. Inc is an education-focused company committed to transforming lives through innovative learning experiences. With roots in O’Donnell Learn and InSource Services Group, Nectar is dedicated to providing empathetic and compassionate support to both educators and learners. The company offers Alchemy, a suite of solutions that empower educators by providing practical tools, curated resources, and expert support to enhance the teaching experience. Additionally, Nectar’s InSource Service Group focuses on improving student outcomes by delivering people-centered services that make a positive impact on the learner experience.

📋 Description

• Advise and train customers on implementing Curie with their faculty through onboarding sessions, workshops, and faculty-facing guidance • Communicate instructional design principles and best practices to customers, faculty, and academic leaders • Create and maintain training materials, job aids, and implementation guides for Curie • Lead and direct a distributed team of instructional designers, including employees and contractors • Set project scope, assign instructional design work, recruit and onboard designers and contractors, provide feedback, and review quality • Establish and maintain instructional design standards for Alchemy and Curie work • Ensure course designs meet accessibility and quality expectations, including WCAG and Quality Matters • Serve as instructional design subject-matter expert for Product Development and advise on features and roadmap • Test and quality-assure new Curie features and releases • Bring customer feedback and field insights to the product team • Scope instructional design portions of RFPs and proposals using the Alchemy product catalog • Partner with the Director of Project Management to deliver projects within scope, budget, and timeline • Develop repeatable, scalable approaches for large or multi-course projects • Coordinate with outside vendors and partners • Lead projects as the instructional designer when needed

🎯 Requirements

• Master's degree in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Education, or a related field (bachelor's with equivalent experience considered) • 5+ years of instructional design experience in higher education, including online and hybrid course development • 2+ years leading or directing instructional designers, including remote team members or contractors • Strong command of instructional design models and learning science, such as ADDIE, backward design, and UDL • Experience training or consulting with faculty and academic stakeholders • Experience scoping ID work for proposals, statements of work, or project estimates • Working knowledge of multiple LMSs, such as Canvas, Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, or Moodle • Clear, confident communication and presentation skills with both technical and academic audiences • Comfort testing software and giving structured, actionable feedback to product teams • Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1/2.2) and accessibility testing • Experience using AI tools and design and interactive creation tools such as the Articulate Suite and H5P • Bachelor's degree with equivalent experience may be considered as an alternative to a master's degree

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Sick PTO • Holiday PTO • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401k