Senior Instructional Design & Educator Growth Leader

University of North Texas; Denton (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of North Texas in Denton is seeking a Senior Teaching & Learning Design Specialist to lead instructional design partnerships across the campus. You will work with graduate student instructors, adjunct faculty, staff educators, and experienced faculty at all career stages to advance teaching practice.

With deep expertise in pedagogy, learning science, and program design, you will mentor colleagues, lead major workshop series, guide curriculum mapping, and help shape the unit's

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in instructional design, education, curriculum & instruction, professional development or a related field.
• Five years of related experience in education, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Provides individualized consultation to educators at all career stages on course design, pedagogical strategies, learning outcomes, assessment, and teaching identity and growth — with particular depth in complex, high-stakes, or multidisciplinary engagements requiring advanced expertise.
• Leads the design and delivery of significant faculty and educator development programming — including major workshop series, speaker series, and structured learning experiences — with responsibility for conceptual framing, facilitation, and evaluation of outcomes.
• Provides senior-level support and intellectual leadership to faculty-led Communities of Practice focused on meaningful course and pedagogical design challenges.
• Takes the lead on complex or large-scale course design and curriculum mapping projects, guiding the development of instructional materials across disciplines, modalities, and program levels.
• Mentors Teaching and Learning Design Specialists and graduate assistants, providing guidance on consultative practice, instructional design, and professional development.
• Advises on appropriate instructional strategies, delivery technologies, and assessment approaches to meet course and program learning objectives, with capacity to address novel or particularly complex cases.
• Maintains active engagement with and contributes substantively to current scholarship in teaching, learning, and educator development; leads related scholarly work and represents the unit at relevant professional conferences.
• Contributes to unit strategic planning, assessment of programming effectiveness, and the development of new initiatives and services; participates in campus-wide teaching and learning initiatives and coordination with on- and off-campus partners.
• Completes other duties as assigned.

Skills

Educational design

Curriculum development

Adult learning

Writing skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Project management

Educational assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in instructional design, education, curriculum & instruction, professional development or a related field

Job description

The University of North Texas in Denton is seeking a Senior Teaching & Learning Design Specialist to lead instructional design partnerships across the campus. You will work with graduate student instructors, adjunct faculty, staff educators, and experienced faculty at all career stages to advance teaching practice.

With deep expertise in pedagogy, learning science, and program design, you will mentor colleagues, lead major workshop series, guide curriculum mapping, and help shape the unit's