Educational Developer

• Provide support to faculty who wish to improve their teaching by developing, advertising and offering new workshops, reading groups, and individual consultations.
• Design and deliver workshops, short-courses, and other teaching and learning programming to support teaching excellence for graduate students and faculty.
• Develop materials and resources that encourage the use of accessible, evidence-based teaching and assessment strategies.
• Contribute to large scale events designed to support high quality teaching including Teaching Day, The Course Design Institute, Graduate Student Training, and The Teaching Network for Early Career Faculty.
• Recommend effective and creative use of technologies and artificial intelligence that support accessibility and advance student learning.
• Design, develop, and implement evaluation procedures that help faculty to assess the effectiveness of the technology and pedagogy they use in their teaching.
• Remain current on and evaluate emerging technologies that have potential value for accessibility, teaching, and learning.
• Contribute to Teaching and Learning Scholarship (i.e., SoTL, DBER) or the Scholarship of Educational Development through conference presentations or publications.

Qualified candidates will hold a Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization plus 5 years of relevant professional experience, or, a Master's degree or higher in a relevant area of study plus 3 years of relevant professional experience. Degree must be conferred by the start date of the position. Degree requirements may be substituted with an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

• Master's degree in Instructional Design, Curriculum & Instruction, Adult Education, or related field.
• PhD Preferred.
• Two years of experience working in a teaching center or similar unit.
• Experience training University faculty, staff, and/or students with regard to learning design and accessibility of online and blended course materials.
• Experience with best-practices for making learning accessible to students with disabilities and and/or with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) pedagogies and educational accessibility principles, current theories, models and exemplary practices in higher education.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative and collegial environment; to inspire confidence and trust; and to create a positive culture.
• Knowledge of existing and emerging practices for modifying teaching to either prevent use or intentionally integrate use of generative AI.
• Knowledge of student learning and faculty development literatures.
• Record of research, publication, and/or professional contributions.

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The university is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.