Overview

Position Type

Full Time

Education Level

4 Year Degree

Instructional Designer – Remote (WPB Preferred)

Summary

In support of the university’s mission and objectives, the Instructional Designer designs, reviews, and implements content focused on measurable course learning objectives. The Instructional Designer supports staff and collaborates with faculty to help create, maintain, and prepare courses for online delivery and teaching with technology

Creates and Maintains Courses for Online Delivery

• Assists faculty in the design and development of course resources.
• Consults with faculty on prevailing knowledge for building courses.
• Instructs faculty and students in the use and/or application of instructional technology.

Prepares Online Courses

• Ensures course materials are available.
• Imports and updates content for upcoming courses.
• Prepares course syllabuses.

Supports Faculty in Teaching with Technology

• Diagnoses and solve Canvas-based and other software problems.
• Creates materials for faculty and student support.
• Conducts workshops, seminars, and training sessions.

Evaluates online content using the Quality Matters rubric and contributes to AI initiatives. 

Completes Other Duties as Assigned

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree, required; Master’s degree in instructional design or related field, preferred, or equivalent experience. Quality Matters (QM) Program Certification, preferred.

Experience

3+ years of experience and training in a higher-education environment, preferred.

Essential Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities) 

• Customer Service Orientation – Keeps internal and/or external key stakeholder(s), students, parents, faculty, staff and community partners in mind at all times. 
• Professionalism – Displays a high level of professionalism, e.g. timeliness, reliability, communication, and work ethic.
• Christ-first Faith – Provides spiritual support to community members, including students, on their Christian faith journey.
• Adaptable/Flexibility – Ability to change or adjust to change.
• Attention to Detail – Ability to efficiently and accurately focus on a specific task or number of tasks. Reviews details with a critical eye.
• Creativity – Ability to think creatively and design creative solutions to problems.
• Effective Communication – Expresses ideas and information in a clear and concise manner both verbally and in writing to convey clear, well-articulated messaging across a wide variety of audiences.
• Establishes Trust – Gains the confidence of others by actions and words that promote being honest, forthcoming, and vulnerable.
• Problem-solving – Anticipates, evaluates, diagnoses, and resolves problems in a systematic and fact-based manner.
• Project and Time Management – Effective planning and priority setting. Ability to manage several complex projects simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Self-development – Grow one’s self-awareness, abilities, skills, and/or talent.
• Teamwork & Collaboration – Creates a climate that fosters commitment to a common vision and shared values that promote cooperation and working together through trust and support of others both departmentally and cross-functionally. 
• Technology – Strong aptitude to learn new technologies as department processes evolve.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work non-routine hours during certain times of the year.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time.

About Palm Beach Atlantic University

About Organization

Palm Beach Atlantic University is a private, independent university offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in West Palm Beach, Orlando and online. The University is dedicated to the integration of Christian principles to prepare students for lifelong learning, leadership and service. As a community of learners, the University provides students with a rigorous educational environment that leads to intellectual, spiritual and personal character development.
Founded in 1968, Palm Beach Atlantic has a tradition of support for community service and free enterprise principles. Workship is a distinctive community service program that responds to human needs with Christ-like action in the community and the world. Through community service, students can discern their vocation and develop a life-long habit of servant leadership. To date, Palm Beach Atlantic students have volunteered more than 3 million hours.
Palm Beach Atlantic's general education curriculum, required of all students, includes a course entitled “Freedom in American Society,” which examines the meaning and significance of freedom in the American experience. Students explore such topics as the historical roots of American liberty, with special emphasis on the close link between liberty and Christianity, and the nature of freedom as understood by the chief architects of the American political order. They examine the interdependence between political and economic freedom, in particular, the significance of free-enterprise capitalism for the preservation of liberty.
The University's annual American Free Enterprise celebration honors individuals who exemplify free enterprise principles and perpetuate those principles in the marketplace.