Project Manager

The Project Manager, Instructional Design will be an integral part of the Pediatric Pandemic Network (PPN) mission to prepare the nation and its children's hospitals to be ready to care for children in everyday settings, disasters, and global health threats. As a five-year, federally funded grant program, the PPN aims to:

* Increase the proportion of children's hospitals working in partnership with local, state, regional, and/or national emergency preparedness systems including health care, disaster preparedness, and emergency management sectors, in order to provide education and develop preparedness plans to better address the unique needs of children and their families.

* Increase the number and types of collaborations that children's hospitals develop with emergency preparedness systems, national organizations focused on improving pediatric emergency readiness, and community partners, to better address the unique needs of children and their families, including efforts to prevent and address disparities experienced by underserved populations.

* Improve the pediatric emergency readiness of health care systems including prehospital, emergency department, and inpatient settings to better address the unique needs of children and their families.

* Increase the capability of telehealth/telemedicine systems to better address the unique needs of children and their families.

The Project Manager, Instructional Design will join a team of instructional designers, educational researchers, and medical education experts located across the country. As part of a highly collaborative, distributed, and dynamic team, the Project Manager, Instructional Design will be tasked to leverage their skills in instructional design, project management, elearning development, educational technology, and problem solving to support the PPN aims listed above. Duties will include:

1. Acts as a project leader for instructional design projects and leads instructional design projects through iterative stages: conception, need analysis, design, development, evaluation and maintenance.
2. Develops and maintains project timelines and plans based on project and stakeholders needs.
3. Manages relationships with internal and external partners, outside vendors, consultants and peer institutions.
4. Provides consultation, assess project needs, and makes recommendations for instructional design projects, such as design solutions, technology selection, resources, timelines, priorities and more.
5. Develops instructional design deliverables such as storyboards, curriculum maps, outlines and prototypes, etc. in collaboration with SMEs and other team members.
6. Manages assigned project tasks to ensure timely and high-quality outcomes. Provides regular status reports on assigned projects.
7. Maintains in depth knowledge of existing and emerging instructional technologies. Delivers technical expertise and provides recommendations in researching, evaluating and implementing new instructional technologies.
8. Manages operating systems, applications, web services, and content on the department's servers.
9. Develops and reports on metrics that measure usage, reliability and client satisfaction for all technology services provided.
10. Maintains highest possible degree of service and responsiveness in complex, multi-stakeholder, multi-vendor, multiplatform environment.
11. May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Skills

1. Demonstrated project management, coordination and leadership skills.
2. Demonstrated experience with instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development/evaluation and educational analytics (psychometrics).
3. Demonstrated experience overseeing projects, planning, production and support of educational projects or curriculum.
4. Ability to leverage diverse technology platforms, such as eLearning authoring tools (Storyline, Rise, H5P, etc.), content or learning management systems (EthosCE, Moodle, SCORM Cloud, etc.) to develop, edit and host online learning materials.
5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Skills

1. Experience with ensuring the digital accessibility of elearning content.
2. Experience with rapid prototyping, LLAMA, or SAM processes.
3. Experience developing content with xAPI compatible platforms and creating reports from LRS data. Experience with LearningPool and similar platforms. Familiarity with Kirpatrick's four levels of evaluation and Thalheimer's Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model.
4. Experience developing content using open access resources and creative commons.
5. Experience designing and developing learning products with emerging technologies including VR/AR, chatbots, adaptive learning, game-based learning, and immersive scenario-based learning a plus
6. Experience using AI to augment instructional design and development workflows.
7. Knowledge of no code tools like Airtable and SmartSuite for project management.
8. Interest in contributing to the advancement of medical education research and practice.
9. Experience in public health, disaster management, emergency medical services, healthcare.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree