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Associate Director Online Teaching and Course Development

New Jersey Institute of Technology
United States, New Jersey, Newark
323 Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard (Show on map)
Sep 12, 2024

Title:
Associate Director Online Teaching and Course Development

Department:
Global- Teaching & Course Dev

Reports To:
Associate Provost for Online Programs

Position Type:
Staff

Position Summary:
The Associate Director collaboratively
develops online education program policies (e.g., quality assurance,
compliance, proctoring) that will be explicitly represented within the broad
range of Instructional Design services that s/he coordinates across all online
courses and programs. S/he will regularly facilitate targeted online education
professional development programming that is in alignment with these
policies.

The Associate Director will facilitate SARA-based course review processes
in concert with the unit-based liaisons and generate reports for the provost
office regarding progress in this area. S/he will also facilitate, with the
help of the Associate Provost for Online programs the annual SARA renewal
process.

The position
coordinates the work of a team instructional designers providing best practice
guidance for the use of technology in multiple course delivery modes; and works
closely with faculty, program directors, program advisors, and external service
partners in the on-going planning and delivery of digital programs and
courses.

As the day-to-day lead in support of Instructional Design services, the position is
expected to exhibit a high level of creativity and resourcefulness, is
competent to work on fairly complex digital learning initiatives with minimal
supervision, and can coordinate multiple projects concurrently.

The position works
closely and collaboratively with students, faculty, and staff to implement the
university's plans for digital learning; and partners with the IST departments to build a university-wide IT infrastructure
that seamlessly supports existing online education initiatives.

In collaboration with the marketing team members, generate content that
focuses on the online student learning experience and provide insight that
translates into impactful strategies for the online marketing campaign.

Essential Functions:
- Works closely with
faculty, directors, and program partners in developing plans
for digital programs and online course development;
manages the assignment of instructional designers working with faculty on
individual course development projects; monitors and reports regularly on
the status of these projects.
- Working with central university and
unit-based leadership to develop policies - and the
infrastructure/processes - that support the responsible development and
delivery of online education for all NJIT campuses.
- Develop highly intentional, year-round,
online education professional development and processes that support
online education for all NJIT faculty.
- In partnership with the Associate Provost
for Online programs, develop quantitative resource allocation-based
matrices that account for instructional design team members' labor and
effort.
- In partnership with Digital Marketing and
Enrollment team, develop digital on-demand student facing collateral that
will heighten prospective student engagement and lead generation.
- Working with the
Institute for Teaching Excellence, ensures that quality standards adopted
for digital course delivery are incorporated into course design; and
provides strategies for faculty to manage student learning in digital
environments and provides support mechanisms for such.
- Manages operational
communications and relationships with external partners in the design and
delivery of online digital programs.
- Creates, designs, and
leads presentations, workshops, discussions, and individual meetings with
faculty and instructional staff on best practices for course design,
pedagogy, assessment, applications of instructional technology and a
variety of related topics.
- Stays abreast of current regulations and standards
covering online and digital programs and works with colleagues to ensure
digital and online programs meet state, federal and accrediting body
standards, including accessibility guidelines.
- Supports the development of new programs by preparing
and delivering presentations at appropriate venues.
- Collaborating with IST to continually
evaluate new opportunities for innovation within online learning.

Additional Functions:
- Keeps current with emerging
technologies, new products, methodologies, applications, and trends in the
context of digital learning best practices.
- Works on specialized projects,
complex projects and other duties as assigned.
- Providing insight on prospective partnerships with
third party vendors.
- Analyze data analytics student performance and
engagement and make recommendations for course improvements.

Prerequisite Qualifications:
- This position requires a Master's degree
in education, instructional design, or a related Field.
- Six years progressive higher education
experience working with faculty applying best practice principles of
instructional design and application of educational technology to enhance
the delivery of instruction; demonstrated experience working with faculty
individually and in small groups.
- Demonstrated experience in project
management and coordinating the work of others in a non-supervisory role.
- College-level teaching experience in
face-to-face and online delivery modes.
- Proven ability to work well in a team
environment.
- Demonstrated creativity and problem-solving
skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication
skills.
- At the university's discretion, the
education and experience prerequisites may be exempted where the candidate
can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the university, an equivalent
combination of education and experience specifically preparing the candidate
for success in the position.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Instructional
Design principles and Quality Matters.
- Demonstrated experience building and
managing courses on an admin level within a learning management systems
and related technologies.

Bargaining Unit:
PSA

Range/Band:
27

FLSA:
Exempt
Full-Time

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