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SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity)

Instructional Designer

🇺🇸 New York, NY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $34 - $41 per Hour

💻 Instructional Design

🗓️ August 8th, 2025

LMS

Edtech.com's Summary

SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity) is hiring an Instructional Designer. The role involves designing effective and engaging learning materials through collaboration with curriculum developers and instructors, focusing on innovative online and technology-enhanced course components. The Instructional Designer will provide training on online teaching and instructional technology while ensuring course quality, accessibility, and alignment with educational standards.

Highlights
  • Develop and design learner-centered educational materials and courses in collaboration with curriculum developers.
  • Integrate innovative online and technology-enhanced components across various delivery modes.
  • Provide training and professional development on Brightspace LMS, course design, and instructional technologies.
  • Create student training materials for course-related technologies and platforms.
  • Utilize instructional design principles to develop multimedia content and adapt materials for digital platforms.
  • Collaborate with subject matter experts, educators, and stakeholders to ensure quality and accessibility compliance.
  • Maintain knowledge of accessibility best practices and evaluation frameworks.
  • Apply project management strategies to coordinate course design projects.
  • Required qualifications include a Bachelor’s degree in Education, Instructional Design, or related field (Master’s preferred) and experience as an Instructional Designer in education.
  • Preferred skills include certifications in online course design, proficiency in instructional design software, multimedia tools, coding, digital platforms, and strong communication and collaboration abilities.

Instructional Designer Full Description

Instructional Designer

at SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity)
$33.85 - $40.63 per hour (estimated)
New York, 10005, NY, US
Full Time

Job Description:
The Instructional Designer provides the curriculum development team with course design support in creating effective and engaging learning environments and materials informed by desired learning outcomes. The role involves consulting with curriculum developers from diverse disciplines to identify course goals and applicable evidence-based instructional strategies. An area of focus will be the integration of innovative online and technology-enhanced course components to enhance learning across different delivery modes. As a member of the curriculum and instruction online team, the Instructional Designer will collaborate with other team members to provide training to curriculum developers and instructors through workshops, webinars, video tutorials, etc., regarding topics related to online teaching, the Brightspace LMS, course design, and integration of instructional technology. The role also involves creating student training materials to prepare them for the technology and platforms used within SEO courses. Responsibilities include applying instructional design principles to develop learner-centered educational experiences, utilizing pedagogical techniques to create meaningful learning pathways, designing and producing multimedia content, adapting and optimizing existing content for digital platforms, collaborating with subject matter experts and educators, providing leadership on lesson plans and assessments, incorporating diverse teaching methods and technologies, working closely with instructors and stakeholders, ensuring course content accessibility and quality assurance, maintaining knowledge of accessibility best practices, contributing to evaluation frameworks, identifying instructional strategies and technologies, applying project management strategies, ensuring compliance with standards, staying up-to-date with educational technologies, delivering professional development and trainings, coordinating course design projects, and performing other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Education, Instructional Design, Curriculum Development, or related field (Master's preferred), proven experience as an Instructional Designer preferably in education, certifications in online course design preferred, experience across modalities, and skills in instructional design software, multimedia tools, coding, and digital platforms. The role requires excellent communication, collaboration, project management, and problem-solving skills, with a passion for closing opportunity gaps for first-generation and low-income students.