Instructional Designer

Linn-Benton Comunity Clg-Santiam; Albany, Northern (OR, KY); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon, seeks an Instructional Designer to develop and adopt high-quality open educational resources in collaboration with academic departments, faculty, and state partners. The role focuses on supporting faculty, ensuring consistency and innovation, and promoting student engagement through open resources.

The position is a full-time, temporary grant-funded role (ending Sep 30, 2029) reporting administratively to Linn-Benton Community College and aligning

Qualifications

• Interest in instructional design and technology and a commitment to open education.

Responsibilities

• Develop and adapt high-quality open educational resources with academic departments and faculty.
• Evaluate and recommend platforms, tools, and processes to support students and faculty.
• Promote textbook affordability and support statewide OER adoption across Oregon.

Job description

The starting annual salary range is $77,674 – $105,089 for a 248-day schedule, plus comprehensive benefits.

Job Summary:

The Instructional Designer role works closely with academic departments, managers, and faculty grantees at Oregon community colleges and universities to develop and adopt high-quality, sustainable, and customizable open educational resources. Support faculty from all backgrounds and skill levels through collaboration, consistency, innovation, and transparency. Evaluate and make recommendations on the purchase or creation of platforms, tools, and processes to support student users and streamline faculty efforts, in addition to supporting and managing the use of existing tools and platforms already in use in Oregon. Works closely with the Statewide Open Education Program Director to promote textbook affordability for community college and university students and facilitate widespread adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials. The successful candidate for this position will have a broad and compelling interest in all aspects of instructional design and technology that motivates the candidate’s practices in supporting course content and curriculum development, outcomes assessment, diversity and inclusion initiatives, OER advocacy, and student engagement.

*This is a full-time, temporary, fixed-term position funded through a grant that is currently scheduled to end on September 30, 2029(with new funding this position may be extended beyond the initial grant period). This position will report administratively to Linn-Benton Community College, but supports a statewide grant-funded program accountable to Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission and the federal Department of Labor.