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Team Management
- Provide supervision and coaching of direct reports by managing work loads, ensuring consistency in processes and communication of organizational policies, providing regular
feedback on individual performance and assessing performance through the annual performance review process. - Foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning within the Learning Experience Design team by leading engaging team meetings, identifying impactful professional
development opportunities and discussing career pathing opportunities with individual team members, and creating onboarding and upskilling programs. - Lead and cultivate service practices across the Learning Experience Design team for ensuring optimal faculty and client experience, align diverse perspectives to make progress, and build partner relationships.
- Maintain a work environment that is respectful of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by setting clear expectations for behaviors and leading personal and team conversations.
- Think about succession planning by assessing important processes and individual roles within the Learning Experience Design team.
Learning Design Process Management
- Lead Develop and implement efficient workflows for end-to-end learning design processes for non-credit and for-credit courses as follows:
- Support project scoping conversations and proposal reviews.
- Communicate project specifications and requirements to learning experience designers and design teams.
- Lead project kick-off processes and creation of norms that support design teams and external partners throughout the lifecycle of a project.
- Lead learning design processes including needs analysis, persona development, learning outcomes, course mapping, assessment design, engaging content creation, quality assurance processes, and evaluation.
- Lead design processes related to copyright accessibility compliance for cross-team collaboration and third-party vendors.
- Lead design processes for ensuring compliance with regulations around non-credit and credit-bearing courses.
- Provide analytical guidance to project teams, recommend solutions to problems, ensure adherence to quality standards, and review project deliverables.
- Lead processes that preserve integrity of course design in situations where reuse of content occurs between non-credit and credit-bearing courses.
- Maintain high-level view and specialized knowledge of product requirements and platform features to provide team members with relevant pedagogical specifications, detailed documentation, and considerations around learner effort and assessment.
- Work with important partners at the Center including partnership development, marketing and communications, design management, media design, operations, program management, and program operations to ensure seamless implementation of learning design processes that lead to successful projects and outcomes.
- Bachelor's degree in related field (education, instructional design, educational technology, or learning sciences) and five or more years of related learning experience design experience (instructional design, educational technology, educational project management, learning sciences, or consulting).
- Two or more years of supervisory experience, including assigning project work, managing process design and implementation, coaching direct reports, and performance management duties.
- Experience with educational technologies, such as H5P, Articulate, Adobe Captivate, and Camtasia.
- Familiarity with online learning courses and programs, open educational resources, and learning management systems, such as Coursera, edX, FutureLearn, and Canvas.
Salary Information
The general salary range for this position is $85,000-$100,000 You can expect to be paid a great compensation package. Factors used to determine salary include education level and
experience for the position and internal equity within the unit. You are encouraged to discuss salary questions to honor understanding and transparency throughout the recruiting process.
This is not a remote position and any adjustments to a standard in-person schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Excellent benefits are available, for details, see http://benefits.umich.edu/
The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third-party administrator to conduct background checks. Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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