Instructional Designer – Contract

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

📚 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

• Partner with faculty subject matter experts to develop course plans, learning outcomes, assessment maps, and course structure • Write course guides or blueprints containing instructional narrative, activities, assessments, rubrics, and resource links • Review and write learning outcomes using Bloom's Taxonomy and related frameworks • Design formative and summative assessments, knowledge checks, and learning activities • Draft media plans and coordinate with media producers and interactive developers • Apply client templates, style guides, terminology, and design standards • Ensure accessibility compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA and remediate accessibility issues • Hold regular working sessions with subject matter experts, including weekly meetings • Attend project and client calls as required by the project or contract • Maintain task status in the client's project system, usually ClickUp • Run course review and approval processes and route deliverables to named reviewers • Review built courses in the LMS against approved blueprints, log fixes, confirm corrections, and sign off before client delivery • Raise schedule, communication, and scope risks early

🎯 Requirements

• Experience designing courses in higher education, K-12, or workforce learning and development • At least one full course taken from outline to delivery • Fluency with learning management systems, particularly Canvas and Brightspace • Ability to collaborate with and lead a faculty subject matter expert relationship • Comfort in client-facing conversations, including explaining constraints or declining unsuitable requests • Clear, structured writing • Ability to follow client style guides, templates, terminology, and design standards • Self-management to meet deadlines in a distributed team • Degree in education, instructional design, instructional technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Familiarity with accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1 AA • Nice to have: Articulate Storyline or Rise, H5P, or other interactive development tools • Nice to have: Quality Matters or similar course design standards • Nice to have: Experience using AI tools in a design workflow • Nice to have: Experience in business, criminal justice, education, psychology, health sciences, or data analytics

🏖️ Benefits

• Contracted per course under a work for hire agreement • Paid a fixed fee per course at defined milestones, on acceptance of each deliverable • Defined review cycles included in the fee • Revisions within the stated revision window included • Contract amendments for work beyond the included scope or changes after sign-off • Flexible course volume based on capacity (one or several courses) • Remote work arrangement • Work with Google Workspace, Slack, project system, and client LMS • Access to AI tooling, including Alchemy’s own platform