Kentucky Community & Technical College System
Instructional Designer
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Louisville, KY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $50K
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ September 10th, 2025
Blackboard
Edtech.com's Summary
Jefferson Community and Technical College is hiring an Instructional Designer. The role involves developing and maintaining course shells in Blackboard, collaborating with faculty to align course designs with learning outcomes, and providing professional development to enhance teaching across all modalities.
Highlights
- Develop and maintain master course shells in Blackboard for selected departments
- Collaborate with faculty to align course design with student learning outcomes and assessments
- Provide professional development on online and hybrid teaching practices
- Offer one-on-one coaching and feedback to faculty for course improvement
- Support Quality Assurance and Assessment efforts aligning courses with institutional standards
- Partner with the Center for Teaching and Learning on faculty development initiatives
- Minimum qualification: Bachelor's degree in a related field and one year of related experience
- Preferred qualifications include a Master’s degree in instructional design or related fields, higher education teaching experience, and advanced knowledge of Blackboard
- Salary is $50,000 annually with a 12-month contract term
- Benefits include health, vision and dental coverage, tuition reimbursement, retirement plan with employer match, paid holidays, vacation/sick time, and employee assistance program
Instructional Designer Full Description
Title: Instructional Designer
Salary Range: $50.000.00
Contract Term Length: 12 Months
Standard Hours: 37.50
Work Location: Hybrid
FLSA Status: Exempt
College: Jefferson Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Jefferson Southwest C.C.
Department: E-Learning
Total Rewards
Jefferson Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care, vision, dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
Jefferson Community and Technical College’s eLearning Office is seeking an Instructional Design Specialist to support faculty and enhance course delivery in all modalities. This full-time position is based at the Southwest Campus, in the Office of eLearning, which supports faculty at all campuses and online.
Job Duties:
• Develop and maintain master course shells in Blackboard for selected academic departments.
• Collaborate with faculty to align course design with student learning outcomes and appropriate assessments.
• Provide professional development opportunities focused on effective online and hybrid teaching practices.
• Partner one-on-one with faculty to improve course design through coaching, feedback, and course review.
• Support departments and faculty in designing and delivering engaging courses.
• Contribute to Quality Assurance and Assessment efforts by supporting faculty as they align their courses with institutional standards for teaching and learning.
• Support the work of the Center for Teaching and Learning by collaborating on faculty development initiatives.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree (related field), and one-year related experience, or equivalent.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in instructional design, education, or related field.
• Teaching experience in higher education.
• Advanced knowledge of Blackboard and related educational technologies.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• High attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Collaborative, team-oriented approach with a demonstrated ability to meet goals.
Additional Skills Requested:Physical Requirements:
Comfortable environment and sedentary work: no unusual physical requirements
Employee Rights - Employee Polygraph Protection ActEqual Opportunity Employer - The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.
