Director - Instructional Design

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

Instructional Design Leadership

• Lead and guide the instructional design process for CTE course development, ensuring consistency and quality across programs.
• Establish and maintain instructional design standards, templates, and best practices.
• Review course designs and instructional artifacts to ensure alignment with learning objectives, assessments, and learner experience standards.
• Provide guidance and feedback to instructional designers and other project contributors.
• Coordinate with instructional leadership and project stakeholders to support timelines, priorities, and delivery expectations.

Course Design and Development

• Oversee the development of course outlines, learning objectives, lesson structures, and instructional activities.
• Guide the creation and review of course blueprints and storyboards that support course production.
• Ensure instructional alignment between learning objectives, activities, and assessments.
• Oversee backwards design where required, particularly for certification-aligned courses, including mapping learning objectives, assessments, state standards, and learning activities to exam criteria.

SME Collaboration

• Partner with subject matter experts to translate technical content into learner-centered instructional experiences.
• Ensure that course content incorporates industry-relevant examples and applied learning opportunities.
• Facilitate collaboration between SMEs, instructional designers, and production teams to resolve content and instructional design challenges.
• Provide direction on incorporating technical subject matter into clear, structured, and engaging learning experiences.

Instructional Artifact Development and Quality Assurance

• Oversee the development and review of course blueprints, lesson structures, assessment plans, and other instructional documentation.
• Ensure instructional artifacts provide clear and actionable guidance for course production teams.
• Conduct quality reviews to identify gaps in instructional alignment, content clarity, and learner engagement.
• Establish review processes to maintain consistency across modules, lessons, and courses.

Platform-Aware Course Design

• Guide the design of learning activities and assessments based on the capabilities of the client's digital learning platform.
• Ensure course designs incorporate appropriate interaction types and learner engagement patterns.
• Collaborate with relevant teams to ensure instructional designs can be implemented effectively within the target platform.

AI-Assisted Content Development

• Lead the development and refinement of AI prompts used to support instructional content creation.
• Oversee the review and refinement of AI-generated instructional content to ensure accuracy, clarity, instructional coherence, and alignment with learning objectives.
• Collaborate with prompt engineering teams to improve AI-assisted course development workflows and outputs.
• Identify opportunities to improve instructional design efficiency while maintaining quality and consistency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Instructional Design, Education, Educational Technology, or a related field.
• Significant experience designing digital learning experiences, curriculum, or instructional materials.
• Strong understanding of instructional design principles, learner-centered design, and curriculum development.
• Experience leading instructional design initiatives and reviewing course outlines, blueprints, storyboards, and assessments.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with SMEs, instructional teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and instructional quality assurance skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience designing CTE or workforce development curriculum.
• Experience leading instructional design teams or overseeing multiple course development initiatives.
• Experience designing content for digital learning platforms or LMS environments.
• Experience supporting AI-assisted course development workflows, including prompt development and AI-generated content review.
• Experience with backwards design and certification-aligned curriculum development.