Instructional Designer-The Center for Professional Development

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The Instructional Designer creates engaging, outcomes-driven learning experiences that equip adult learners with professional and workforce skills. Working in close partnership with subject-matter experts, faculty, and community and organizational partners, the Instructional Designer leads full-cycle course design (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation).

Duties and Responsibilities

Learning Experience Design & Development

• Design and develop asynchronous digital course development, hybrid, and instructor‑led learning experiences using backward‑design, adult‑learning principles, and evidence-based instructional strategies.
• Create and integrate multimedia (video, motion graphics, simulations, interactive assessments) that reinforce key competencies.
• Conduct learner and task analyses to define instructional goals and measurable learning outcomes.

Digital Learning Asset Production

• Plan, storyboard, produce, and edit instructional videos, including screen recordings, narrated demonstrations, animated explainers, and video-based learning resources.
• Create infographics, job aids, motion graphics, animations, and visual effects that clarify concepts and strengthen instructional storytelling.
• Publish and maintain learning assets within the learning management system (LMS), including version control and course updates.

Assessment & Evaluation

• Develop formative and summative assessments aligned to learning objectives, industry certifications, and workforce competencies.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews for content accuracy, instructional alignment, usability, accessibility, technical functionality, consistency, and cross-device performance.
• Analyze learner analytics and feedback to improve course design and evaluate learning impact.

Collaboration & Capacity Building

• Collaborate with subject-matter experts and team members to translate complex content into clear, engaging learning materials, training sessions, and videos.
• Partner with grant teams to craft instructional narratives, logic models, and evidence of learning impact.

Continuous Improvement & Research

• Monitor emerging trends in instructional technology, workforce‑development, and design.
• Evaluate and apply emerging tools and technologies, to improve instructional quality, production efficiency, and learner engagement.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities RequiredExperience
  • Minimum of three years of experience in instructional design, digital content development, or a related field.
• Technical Skills
  • Proficiency with AI content development tools, graphic design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud or Canva, and video editing and motion graphics tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Camtasia, or comparable software.
  • Experience using learning‑management systems such as Canvas,
  • Experience analyzing learning analytics dashboards.
  • Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards, including captions and transcripts for instructional media.
• Core Competencies
  • Exceptional written, visual, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Strong organization and project‑management skills, with the ability to balance competing deadlines, meet deadlines, and incorporate feedback.
  • Attention to detail, sound visual judgment, and ability to produce professional-quality learning assets.
• Additional Application Materials· Cover letter· Portfolio with examples of instructional design/eLearning projects, independently produced instructional, image or motion graphics.
  Compensation: SalaryBenefits: YesJob Location: The Center for Professional Development (on-site, hybrid, or remote negotiable)

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About Us

Located in the heart of Appalachia, University of the Cumberlands (UC) is an institution of regional distinction that offers undergraduate degrees in more than 40 major fields of study, along with several pre-professional, graduate and doctoral programs. With a total enrollment of more than 20,000 students, UC is one of the largest and fastest growing private universities in Kentucky and is devoted to preparing students for the future through hands-on, experiential learning and research.

The University of the Cumberlands does not illegally discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, veteran status, because a person is a smoker or nonsmoker, or any other basis on which the University is prohibited from discrimination under local, state, or federal law, in its employment or in the provision of its services, including but not limited to its programs and activities, admissions, educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other University -administered programs. In order to fulfill its purpose, the University may legally discriminate on the basis of religion in employment, and the University has sought and been granted exemption from certain regulations promulgated under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 which conflict with the University's religious tenets.