How to Apply

To apply, submit your application online in the University system. You must include a cover letter and your resume. Note: the University of Michigan application system requires all documents to be in a single file.

The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts welcomes candidates from a broad range of educational backgrounds and experiences, and values a variety of knowledge and perspectives on our team.

Job Summary

LSA Technology Services Learning and Teaching Consultants (LTC) seek an Instructional Design and Technology Consultant who is flexible, dedicated to improving learning and teaching, and is willing to learn new things. We hope to hire a candidate who is committed to LSA’s instructional mission.

This position will involve working with instructors in a wide range of fields, with widely varying instructional needs, including both in-person and blended classes. The individual in this position will be required to consult and work closely with faculty to develop very individualized plans to engage students with the course material and activities. This may involve revising a whole course, or developing a single assignment. LTC also tutors, advises, and supports faculty in the use of LSA instructional technology and LSA teaching spaces. We welcome experience from a wide range of work histories, including teaching, training, and related fields, as long as the candidate has a solid grounding in the essential best practices of instructional design. This is a senior-level position, so the ability to track and carry out months-long projects fairly independently is also necessary.

Some examples of relevant skills are: experience in applying active learning strategies, experience building course materials and activities in learning management systems, experience with collaborative learning, experience building websites or web-based activities, knowledge of instructional uses of audio/video technology, a general knowledge of copyright issues in the realm of education, and some familiarity with accessibility issues in education.

Please note: this position supports primarily in-person courses, and this is an on-site position. It is possible to begin fully remote while preparing to move, but the successful candidate will need to move into the local area.

Mission Statement

The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.

Why Work at Michigan?

In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, the University of Michigan offers comprehensive benefits and wellness programs to help you stay well and to support you as you plan for a secure future. Benefits include:

• Generous time off
• A retirement plan that provides two-for-one matching contributions
• Many choices for comprehensive health insurance
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave benefits, including up to six weeks of paid parental leave to all eligible parents and legal guardians to bond with a new child.

While you will primarily work from our central campus in Ann Arbor, LSA offers flexible work options. To support well-being, LSA also has a communication standard that limits non-essential emails to weekday business hours.

Being part of something greater, of serving a larger mission of discovery and care – that’s the heart of what drives people to work at Michigan. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution.

Responsibilities

• 35% – Learning Design and Support
  

Collaborate with faculty to improve learning goals and create goal-driven courses and complex assignments. Cultivate relationships with a specific group of departments for teaching-needs assessment. Often visit courses to observe. Support faculty in making innovative use of educational technology and teaching techniques such as active learning, team based learning, flipped classrooms. Lead multiple instructional design projects, ensuring delivery of high quality, pedagogically appropriate, and sustainable content.

• 20% – Faculty Development
  

Write and deliver hands-on pedagogy workshops. Organize and plan teaching and learning events. Design and develop instructional recommendations, models, and templates; design and develop instructional technology resources and web-based learning materials. Train faculty and students to use instructional software, focusing on the integration of instructional tools into lessons and curriculum.

• 20% – Educational Technology
  

Cultivate awareness of instructional needs, and of gaps where current tools do not serve those needs. Proactively search out tools that may serve the needs of a particular group of departments the consultant maintains relationships with. Cooperate and collaborate closely with other instructional support staff and campus technology experts to adopt and deploy instructional software, online teaching and learning tools, and other emerging instructional technologies. Manage pilots and evaluation of new tools and coordinate expansion of approved tools for use across LSA.

• 15% – Information Sharing & Advocacy
  

Articulate and share own, and team’s, perspective and expertise in meetings, events, and publications, both within the University and professionally, outside it. Research emerging trends in pedagogy  and the associated technology tools. Coordinate and work closely with partner units within the UM teaching and learning community, and represent LSA in campus technology communities.

• 10% – Professional Development
  

Keep up with the field and continue in professional qualifications and development.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in instructional design, education, or related field, or equivalent experience. 
• 3 to 5 years experience of design, teaching, or related experience in the instructional technology environment.
• Broad knowledge of instructional design principles (backwards design, content chunking, iterative design).
• Familiarity with pedagogical best practices such as active learning and authentic assessment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working both independently and collaboratively.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree in instructional design or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Quality Matters certification, or similar certification in industry standard course design standards and process.
• Teaching, training, or other public speaking experience.
• Experience working in higher ed, especially experience delivering or supporting in-person teaching.
• Knowledge of any of LSAis major educational technologies (Canvas, iClicker, Piazza, Yellowdig and Harmonize, Perusall and Hypothesis, Gradescope, MS Office and Google Suite).
• Experience building websites, especially ones with interactive elements

Modes of Work

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Additional Information

As one of the world’s great liberal arts colleges, LSA pushes the boundaries of what is understood about the human experience and the natural world, and we foster the next generation of rigorous and empathetic thinkers, creators, and contributors to the state of Michigan, the nation, and the world.

To learn more about LSA’s Mission, Vision and Values, please visit lsa.umich.edu/strategicvision.

Background Screening

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 are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.