Lead Instructional Designer – Contract

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 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

• Oversee a small group of instructional designers across multiple concurrent courses • Review course plans, course guide batches, and LMS builds against client standards and checklists • Provide substantive design feedback on outcomes, assessments, and activity mix • Sign off on work before client submission and return work that is not ready • Review built courses against approved blueprints • Check that interactives render and behave correctly in the LMS • Make design decisions on build questions • Maintain accessibility and client design standards across courses • Attend client calls and present design decisions, explain trade-offs, and absorb feedback • Attend ID and SME calls as needed • Coach and onboard contract designers to client templates, review processes, and standards • Work with the project manager on sequencing, risks, and realistic dates • Escalate scope or capacity problems early • Keep review status visible in the project system • Work in Alchemy's systems and client systems, including Google Workspace, Slack, the project system, and the client's LMS • Evaluate where AI-generated content meets standards and where it does not

🎯 Requirements

• Several years designing courses, including courses taken end to end independently • Experience reviewing other designers' work and providing direct, actionable feedback • Confident judgment on outcome alignment, assessment design, and scope • Experience with learning management systems, particularly Canvas and Brightspace • Understanding of how design decisions survive or fail at the build stage • Comfort in client-facing meetings, including delivering unwelcome news • Ability to manage several courses concurrently and identify which is at risk of slipping • Degree in education, instructional design, instructional technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Experience leading contract or freelance designers rather than employees (nice to have) • Experience onboarding designers into an active project (nice to have) • Experience with Articulate Storyline, Rise, or H5P (nice to have) • Quality Matters certification or similar (nice to have) • Ability to work with Google Workspace, Slack, the project system, and the client's LMS • Ability to evaluate AI-generated content against quality standards • Ability to reply to email and Slack within one business day • Ability to complete reviews within the contractually stated window

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid at defined milestones against the defined project scope • Contracted per project under a work-for-hire agreement • Recurring weekly commitment rather than a burst of effort