Job Purpose: The Instructional Designer contributes to the professional development effort at ISTE through the design, development and revision of instructional materials for online and onsite delivery for ISTE members and partners. Materials provide a continuum of professional development offerings, which vary in size from a one-page downloadable research brief or learning activity to an online professional development course. The Instructional Designer collaborates to meet learning goals through quality applications of technologies and instructional methods to facilitate the successful implementation of instructional innovations.

Essential Functions:

•Manage instructional design projects from kickoff meeting to completion, ensuring high quality professional development solutions based on needs. Uses Instructional Design methodologies to analyze, evaluate, design, and develop functional specifications.

•Applies instructional design standards in creative and innovative ways to create educational solutions that meet client needs. Develop objectives and ensure content matches those objectives and ISTE’s styles and standards.

•Design and development of effective instructional materials and learning experiences for administrators, technology leaders, teachers and students. Develops conceptual models as well as concrete materials.

•Work with subject matter experts to identify learning objectives. Gather accurate design requirements and facilitate an effective iterative development process.

•Revise and rewrite content to shape it for learning needs.

•Structure content and activities for learning.

•Create and maintain management systems and media to support learning in various learning environments (e.g., content management system or learning management system; using skills for strong technical writing, graphic design, desktop publishing, adobe connect, web development, and social networking environments).

•Design and implement measurements to measure success at meeting client expectations.

•Prepare manuals, guidelines, and reports.

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy and leadership for innovation. ISTE is the premier membership association for educators and education leaders engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in PK–12 and teacher education. Home of the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS), the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET), and the ISTE Conference, formerly known as the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), ISTE represents more than 85,000 professionals worldwide. We support our members with information, networking opportunities and guidance as they face the challenge of transforming education.

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Additional Salary Information: Additional Salary Information: Benefits are effective the first of the month following 30 days of employment. Medical, vision, prescription, and dental insurance. Flexible Spending Account, 10 paid vacation days per year, with an increasing schedule, 11 paid holidays, 12 paid sick days, Employee Assistance Program, short term disability, life insurance, 403b employer contribution is currently 5% after one year of service, professional development, and business casual environment.

Desirable: Masters’ degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Technology, Instructional Design Technology or related field, teaching experience and association or non-profit experience preferred.

This position requires:

•Demonstrated experience teaching in and/or managing a Content Management System or Learning Management Systems (Moodle, Blackboard, Adobe Connect Pro, Sakai)

•Knowledge of Instructional Design Principles: Understands complex challenges for professional and classroom learning and interprets challenges into innovative learning opportunities which are based on pedagogically-sound curriculum, instruction and assessment practices.

•Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strength and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or appropriate approaches to problems.

•Global Perspective: Has a global view and is comfortable and effective working with global partners, understands global markets and international considerations.

•Leadership: A demonstrated ability to lead people and get results.

•Confidentiality and Ethics: Responsible for modeling ethical behavior and ensuring confidentiality of information.

•Budgets/Cost Control: Plans for and uses resources efficiently, always looks for ways to reduce costs, creates accurate and realistic budgets, tracks and adjusts budgets, contributes to budget planning. Analyzes and controls expenditures to conform to budgetary requirements.

•Professionalism: Responsible for representing the organization professionally inside and outside of the office; modeling excellence in public relations and communication.

•Customer Focus: Provides customer service excellence to internal and external customers, ensuring effective and long-term problem resolution. Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, and solicits opinions and ideas from customers.

•Adaptability: Ability to thrive in a demanding, fast paced, evolving/changing environment, requiring a high degree of productivity, adaptability, innovation, and follow-through; ability to work effectively independently as well as part of a team and provide leadership within that environment. The ability to stay flexible and adapt well to changing timelines and priorities.

•Quality: Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.

•Initiative: Self-motivation and initiative, evaluating, selecting and acting on various methods and strategies for solving problems and meeting objectives before being asked or required to do so. Seeks out new responsibilities, acts on opportunities, generates new ideas, and practices self-development.

•Technology: Requires strong knowledge of technology, and its applications in a hands-on learning environment, technology skills (word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, graphics, multi-media, web—including wikis, blogs, and other evolving web 2.0 tools,), the ability to work comfortably in a technology-rich environment, and understand and communicate presenters’ technology needs. Makes good use of web tools and on-line industry resources and keeps abreast of industry trends. Has an awareness of, researches and adopts effective technologies that improve the bottom line, works well with technology resources. Performs efficient and effective web-based research. •Data processing skills; accurate and consistent records and file management; proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and database management; business correspondence techniques and English composition, grammar, spelling and punctuation; professional email correspondence; experience using standard office equipment.

•Decision Making/Judgment: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, and communicates decisions to others.

•Project Management: Strong project management, planning and organizing skills, establishing a systematic course of action for oneself or others to ensure the accomplishment of specific objective(s). Determines priorities and allocates time and resources effectively. Ability to multi-task while handling multiple projects and effectively problem solve in a fast-paced environment.

•Communication: Expresses ideas, thoughts and concepts effectively both verbally and in writing, using correct and appropriate grammar, organization and structure; creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills.

•Interpersonal Skills: Communicates in a collaborative and respectful manner. Communicates clearly and effectively, working cooperatively with others. Has good listening skills, builds strong relationships, is flexible/open-minded, negotiates effectively, solicits performance feedback and handles constructive criticism effectively.

Finger dexterity is needed to access, enter and retrieve data using a computer keyboard, typewriter keyboard or calculator and to operate standard office equipment. The position occasionally bends, stoops, reaches, pushes and pulls drawers to retrieve and file information and lifts and carries reports and records that typically weigh less than 20 pounds.

Some business travel required which includes both air and land transportation. It may be necessary to handle personal luggage and operate a motor vehicle. The position must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds when preparing for a conference, meeting, or exhibition.

This position is open until filled. To Apply: 1) Submit Cover letter stating where you first heard of this position AND your pay expectations, 2) your resume, 3)references 4) any letters of reference

To Judy Moore, Director of Human Resources at hiring@iste.org. Please use "Instructional Designer - FName LName" (using your name) as the subject line of your application email message.

We look forward to hearing from you!