Position Information

Posting Number: S-3654

Position Number: 63710

Type of Recruitment: External

Position Title: learning management system instructional technologist

Position Summary:

This position works collaboratively with subject matter experts, instructional designers, and teaching & learning consultants to provide consultation on how to optimize Learning Management System (LMS) functionality for the design, development, and delivery of high-quality digital learning experiences. This includes creating, maintaining, and configuring digital learning materials within the LMS to support faculty using the system as part of their instructional strategy to meet learning objectives. This position also conducts faculty training and professional development sessions as needed and has a primary responsibility for maintaining the LMS tutorial collection to ensure accuracy, currency, and relevancy.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Three years of increasingly responsible related work experience, preferably in a higher education environment.
• Experience building content, using LMS tools to achieve course outcomes and meet identified standards, and supporting faculty in their use of an LMS as part of their instructional strategy.
• Technically astute with demonstrated application and knowledge of LMS and related technologies, with the ability to research and resolve complex issues.
• Demonstrated knowledge of effective course design principles within the LMS.
• Demonstrated ability to collect and analyze data for end-user support, troubleshooting, and tutorial/documentation development.
• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication, organizational, time management, critical-thinking, and problem-resolution skills.
• Ability to manage work effectively, prioritize multiple projects, maintain accurate records, meet deadlines, and exercise independent judgment.
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree, preferably in educational/instructional technology, instructional design, or higher education administration.
• Experience with embedding digital content or other multimedia artifacts and integrating publisher/vendor tools into digital learning experiences.
• Knowledge/familiarity with academic and student learning processes and conducting engaging faculty professional development activities leading to enhanced knowledge and skills.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides support to faculty on the learning management system (LMS) (e.g., Blackboard) features, functions, and tools to lend technical expertise on how to effectively leverage and utilize the LMS to develop, design, and deliver high-quality instructional content to achieve course objectives and outcomes to enhance student learning.
• Consults with faculty about using technology, multimedia, and learning systems to improve teaching and learning within the LMS.
• Researches, evaluates, and assesses the latest technology, learning media, and learning system best practices to aid in course development, design, and delivery.
• Assists with course updates to ensure content reflects current design standards, terminology, and technologies.
• Facilitates the development and delivery of training opportunities to enhance the knowledge, skills, and competencies of faculty in their use of the LMS.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervision Exercised: None

Message to Applicants

Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering a broadly diverse and inclusive campus that respects all social identities, experiences, and perspectives. In an effort to further this initiative, we are especially interested in candidates who will advance and promote an inclusive and supportive environment for every member of our university community.

You must submit an on-line application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position.

Cover letters may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit recommendation letters. If you wish to include recommendation letter(s) that are not required, please utilize Recommendation Letters.

If there is another applicable document you wish to include that is not required, please utilize Other Document (1).

*Central Michigan University has a Flexible Worksite Policy. Some flexible worksite arrangements may be possible for this position in accordance with this policy.

Employee Group: Professional & Administrative -Salary

Staff Pay Level

Pay Range: $44,000 – $54,000 per year

Division: Academic Affairs

Department: Learning Systems Support

Position Status: Regular

Position End Date: 

Employment Status: Full-Time

FTE: 1.0

Position Type: 12 month

Weekly Work Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. / weekends and evenings as needed

Location: Mount Pleasant, MI

About the Department

About CMU

Central Michigan University has a more than 125-year legacy of preparing students to become leaders and changemakers in their communities and in their personal and professional lives.

We serve nearly 15,500 students on our Mount Pleasant campus, in satellite locations around the state and throughout the country, and through flexible online programs. Many of our approximately 300 undergraduate, master’s, specialist and doctoral programs in the arts, media, business, education, human services, health professions, liberal arts, social sciences, medicine, science and engineering are nationally ranked for excellence.

CMU leads the nation in leadership development programming through our Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, and we are proud to be among only 5% of U.S. universities in the top two Carnegie research classifications. Our faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students in areas such as Great Lakes research, medical innovation, engineering technology and more.

Central is home to 17 men’s and women’s Division 1 sports including football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling and more. Our student-athletes achieve great success in competition and in the classroom, capturing Mid-American Conference championships and maintaining an average cumulative GPAof 3.17.

CMU is located in Mount Pleasant, a community that blends the best of small-town living with big-city amenities. It’s part of the culturally varied and vibrant Great Lakes Bay Region that also includes Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and the state’s largest Native American community, centered on the Saginaw Chippewa Isabella Reservation in Mount Pleasant.

Area residents enjoy the mix of outdoor activities, cultural events, shopping and dining options, and family attractions. Other major Michigan destinations and attractions — Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Traverse City, wineries, beaches, golf and ski resorts, and many more — are within easy reach of the city’s central location in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.

CMU employees enjoy access to a nationally recognized wellness program along with health care and benefits that exceed regional, state and national norms.

CMU Leadership Standards

Central Michigan University is a place where we value students and work for their success, where we act as family, and where employees are engaged, appreciated and have extraordinary opportunities to make a difference.

We intentionally maintain and strengthen the hallmark CMU culture that sets us apart from our peers by expecting CMU leaders and employees to model the following Leadership Standards and develop them within their teams.

Please review the Leadership Standards before applying for this position.

EEO Statement

CMU, an AA/EO institution, strongly and actively strives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity within its community. CMU does not discriminate against persons based on age, color, disability, ethnicity, familial status, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, height, marital status, national origin, political persuasion, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, race, religion, sex, sex‐based stereotypes, sexual orientation, transgender status, veteran status, or weight (see https://www.cmich.edu/offices-departments/OCRIE).

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CMU does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education program or activity that it operates, including admission and employment, and is required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 not to discriminate in such a matter.

Inquiries about the application of Title IX can be made to CMU’s Title IX Coordinator, the US Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary, or both.

CMU’s Title IX Coordinator can be reached at:

Phone: 989-774-3253

Office: 103 E. Preston St.

Bovee University Center, suite 306

Mount Pleasant, MI 48858

Email: titleix@cmich.edu

Posting Ends: 

Open Until Filled: Yes