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Central New Mexico Community College is hiring a Senior Instructional Consultant. This role involves planning, mentoring, and evaluating instructional consultants while supporting faculty to design and implement educational technology. The position also requires developing educational materials, facilitating professional development, and ensuring the quality of online courses aligns with best practices.

Highlights

Facilitates faculty professional development and develops training materials.
Responsible for the use of educational technologies in course design.
Coordinates online faculty training sessions.
Compensation ranges from $50,283.00 to $60,338.00 annually.
Requires a Bachelor's Degree and five years of related experience.
Preference for candidates with teaching experience in higher education.
Experience with Brightspace is preferred.
Benefits include a hybrid work schedule (3 days in-office, 2 days remote).

Senior Instructional Consultant Full Description

Senior Instructional Consultant

Central New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Full time

Compensation:$50,283.00 -$60,338.00

Compensation Type:Salary

Employment Type:Regular

Grade:E03

Position Summary
Under general supervision, the Senior Instructional Consultant plans, conducts, mentors and coaches associate and advanced instructional consultants, delegates and supervises assignments. Reviews progress and evaluates results. Recommends staff for given projects or tasks and recommends modifications to department procedures.
This position supports faculty and support staff to design, test, and implement educational technology aligned with effective instructional strategies.

Duties & Responsibilities

Facilitates, teaches, or trains faculty professional development related to the effective design and use of educational technologies
Uses departmental training or current instructional experience to work closely with faculty to ensure the online course contains course goals, identifies required skill set to ensure student success, and the course is set up to create a community (i.e. discussion board or other methods for students to actively engage in the class).
Develops training for faculty based on instructional experience or departmental training that aligns the use of educational technologies with effective instructional strategies to design new online, blended and hybrid courses in different learning modalities, such as online, accelerated, attend anywhere, competency based and micro-credentialing.
Provides one-to-one or scheduled consulting sessions based on instructional experience or departmental training on the use of educational technologies used for learning management, content multi-media authoring, learning assessment tools, asynchronous and synchronous communication, and any related technologies.
Works with, teaches and trains faculty to implement quality standards for instructional design and delivery based on national/international best practices (e.g. Quality Matters).
Utilize educational training and departmental training to assist faculty in identifying open educational resources.
Tests and provides recommendations based on instructional experiences or first-hand departmental trainings on emerging educational technologies. Utilize this information to develop training opportunities for faculty.
Utilize previous educational experience or departmental training on current or different learning management systems to participate in the development of online self-help resources, website content, paper guides, workshops, presentations, and other support resources for various audiences to include faculty and staff.
Utilize departmental training or previous instructional experience to train faculty.
Facilitates, schedules, and coordinates online faculty training.
Assists with the development of online self-help resources, website content, paper guides, workshops, presentations and other support resources for various audiences.
Develops tools using existing instructional experience or current departmental training. Tools to develop include source templates, training materials, and video resources for faculty to use in the design of course shells. Items such as accessible videos, narrated presentations, creation of test databases, and other interactive methods to enhance the students engagement in the course materials will be developed and delivered.
Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in a related field and five (5) years of related work experience.

Preferences

Teaching experience in higher education
Experience working with Brightspace

Complete application consists of Cover Letter and Resume. Only in-state candidates will be considered.

Schedule: Hybrid Work Schedule is 3 days in-office, 2 days remote.

Best Consideration Date: 06/19/2025

Posting Close Date: 06/26/2025

Department: Innovation and Instructional Support

Team: Design and Curriculum Development

EEO STATEMENT:

As an EEO employer, Central New Mexico Community College will not discriminate in our employment practices based on an applicant’s race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, serious medical condition or status as a protected veteran or spousal affiliation. Central New Mexico Community College hires only U.S. citizens and individuals lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.

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