Instructional Designer
School Harbor is looking to hire a part-time instructional designer to create online courses and communities for edtech companies.
Working for School Harbor, you will interact with rising stars in the edtech industry and develop skills and experience that are critical for roles in instructional design, project management, and community development.
If you are a student of instructional design, we’d be glad to help make sure this work counts toward course projects, portfolio requirements, or experiential learning requirements.
Your work will involve basic instructional design for lightweight, self-paced, asynchronous online courses and online learning communities inside a LMS, e.g.:
- Workshopping requirements with client stakeholders
- Developing a course outline based on learner goals or outcomes
- Interviewing subject matter experts to generate content
- Revising or re-desegining existing online learning
- Basic image or video editing
- Creating assessment items or reflective learning activities
- Building online courses and quizzes using LMS or LMS-like systems
- Creating automated community engagement campaigns
Some of this you can learn on the job. We expect you to come in the door with the following skills:
- Easy to work with
- Strong listening and communication skills (written and oral)
- Ability to manage time
- Understanding of instructional design concepts and research-based practices
- Accepts and applies feedback for improvements
- Proficient with online tools and systems (Google, LMS, etc)
- Basic image editing and/or video editing skills (any, really: Photoshop, Pixelmator, Canva, Figma, iMovie)
- Autodidactic (IYKYK)