Assistant Director of Educational Innovation and Assessment

🇺🇸 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $67K - $82K 💻 Instructional Design 🗓️ November 8th, 2026

Assessment Faculty

Edtech.com's Summary

Lehigh University is hiring an Assistant Director of Educational Innovation and Assessment. The role partners with academic programs, departments, and faculty to develop and carry out strategies for assessing student learning outcomes across Lehigh's colleges and programs. It also designs faculty development workshops on teaching, assessment, and data analysis, and works with the office's directors on educational innovation projects.

Highlights

Partner with academic programs, departments, and faculty to develop and implement valid student learning outcome assessment strategies.
Apply formative, summative, authentic, diagnostic, and performance-based assessment methods to measure specific learning objectives, supported by rigorous data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
Evaluate emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence tools, for their use in student learning assessment.
Analyze assessment findings to drive continuous improvement of educational programs, curricula, instructional materials, and teaching methods.
Design and deliver faculty development programs and workshops on the scholarship of teaching and learning, assessment practices, and data analysis, and give faculty and staff ongoing guidance on student learning evaluation.
Monitor trends, best practices, accreditation requirements, and regulatory standards in higher education pedagogy and assessment, and bring relevant findings into improvement initiatives.
Collaborate with the Director of Educational Innovation and Assessment and the Director of Educational Analytics on assessment and innovation projects, and mentor undergraduate and graduate student assistants.
Master's degree in education, instructional design, learning sciences, or a related field and three to five years of related experience, with a doctoral degree and higher education educational innovation experience preferred.
Knowledge of active learning strategies, educational technologies, and assessment methods, plus experience delivering faculty development workshops and strong project management skills.
Pay range of approximately $67,270 to $81,830 for a full-time exempt staff position that must be performed on campus, with no remote option.