UTHealth Houston
Instructional Developer/Designer in Academic Affairs
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Houston, TX
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ December 4th, 2025
Canvas
Edtech.com's Summary
UTHealth Houston is hiring an Instructional Developer / Designer in the Academic Affairs Office. The role involves partnering with faculty, staff, and administrators to design, develop, and implement online, hybrid, and technology-enhanced courses that enhance educational programs. The employee will also provide faculty support and technical assistance during exams.
Highlights
- Design, develop, and revise online and hybrid courses and learning modules.
- Apply instructional design principles and adult learning theories.
- Provide faculty development, consultations, and technical support, including troubleshooting software during medical exams.
- Develop digital learning materials such as rich media, simulations, and interactive case studies.
- Support integration of educational technologies including LMS (preferably Canvas), video conferencing, plagiarism prevention, and online proctoring tools.
- Maintain accessibility compliance for all course materials and online platforms.
- Use MS Office and online course management development software.
- Minimum qualifications include a bachelor’s degree in Instructional Technology or relevant experience plus three years of related experience.
- Position requires occasional physical exertion up to 50 pounds and is designated security-sensitive under Texas Education Code.
- Employee benefits include fully paid medical premiums, generous paid time off, longevity pay, retirement plans, free counseling, wellness programs, and various employee discounts.
Instructional Developer/Designer in Academic Affairs Full Description
Instructional Developer / Designer in Academic Affairs
Texas Medical Center-Houston, TexasCategory EducationJob Id 250002FI Hybrid
UTHealth Houston’s Academic Affairs Office is looking for an Instructional Developer / Designer. This employee will partner with faculty, staff, and administrators to help design, develop, and implement high-quality online, hybrid, and technology-enhanced courses that support the business unit’s mission to advance excellence in education, research, and practice. This role will support both graduate and undergraduate educational programs, as well as outreach initiatives, and contribute to the continuous improvement of the learning experience across the curriculum. This person will be on-site and perform functions such as assisting medical students during exams when they have software issues. Experience with Learning Management software such as Canvas is preferred. It is also beneficial to have experience in instructional design, although it is not a requirement for this role.
Essential Functions
• Collaborate with faculty to design, develop, and revise engaging and pedagogically sound courses and learning modules for online, hybrid, and in-person delivery.
• Apply instructional design theories, adult learning principles, and best practices in online education and competency-based learning.
• Provide faculty development and one-on-one consultations focused on effective online pedagogy, assessment strategies, and accessibility. Ensure all course materials meet accessibility standards.
• Develop digital learning materials, including rich media content, simulations, and interactive case studies, in collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Support faculty in integrating educational technologies into their courses with learning management, video and audio conferencing, streaming video content, plagiarism prevention, online proctoring, course evaluation, and simulation software
• Stay current with trends and emerging technologies in instructional design, health professions education, and E-learning.
• Evaluate and maintain course design templates and documentation for consistent delivery across programs.
Essential Functions
• Collaborate with faculty to design, develop, and revise engaging and pedagogically sound courses and learning modules for online, hybrid, and in-person delivery.
• Apply instructional design theories, adult learning principles, and best practices in online education and competency-based learning.
• Provide faculty development and one-on-one consultations focused on effective online pedagogy, assessment strategies, and accessibility. Ensure all course materials meet accessibility standards.
• Develop digital learning materials, including rich media content, simulations, and interactive case studies, in collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Support faculty in integrating educational technologies into their courses with learning management, video and audio conferencing, streaming video content, plagiarism prevention, online proctoring, course evaluation, and simulation software
• Stay current with trends and emerging technologies in instructional design, health professions education, and E-learning.
• Evaluate and maintain course design templates and documentation for consistent delivery across programs.
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as...
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
- Plus many more!
Position Summary:
Provides instructional and program electronic-delivery development support for in-house academic courses, distance education and outreach education efforts. Works under close supervision.
Position Key Accountabilities:
- Developing high-quality online learning modules with advanced interactions within set deadlines
- Delivering critical software training sessions for faculty and staff members in groups or one-on-one settings
- Maintaining and ensuring accessibility compliance for the OEP website
- Providing technical support for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year exams, including troubleshooting the computers and any software issues.
Certification/Skills:
MS Office software.
Online course management development software.
Client/customer focus.
Good interpersonal skills.
Online course management development software.
Client/customer focus.
Good interpersonal skills.
Minimum Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Instructional Technology or relevant experience in lieu of education.
Minimum Experience:
Three (3) Years of experience, preferably in online course management development software. May substitute required experience with equivalent years of education beyond the minimum education requirement.
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.
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