Associate, Instructional Designer, Literacy (K-5)

Overview

Build the Future

Do you want to impact educators and students around the globe? At McGraw Hill, the Associate Instructional Designer, Literacy will help develop instructional materials for Literacy programs that are delivered in both print and digital formats.
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How can you make an impact?**

McGraw-Hill Education, the leading provider of digital and print educational materials is looking for a creative, innovative, strategic Associate Instructional Designer, Literacy (K-5) (Project Status) for our Literacy programs.

You will be a valuable member of a collaborative group of Instructional Designers, closely partnering with teams focused on content, product management, UX, and creative media. As part of this team, you will create robust digital tools, curriculum and learning solutions in a variety of formats that are used by millions of educators and students every day. The Associate Instructional Designer, Literacy (K-5) (Project Status) is a digital savvy content and curriculum expert, responsible and accountable for assembling high-quality content based on specific product requirements for the Literacy programs. This is a remote opportunity and can be based anywhere across the United States

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Your contribution to the team includes:**

• Learn and contribute to program planning and curriculum mapping where applicable
• Learn and contribute in regards to the creation of POC’s and prototypes.
• Through a UBD process, you will design, storyboard, and develop digital curriculum assets such as videos, eBooks, interactives, simulations, games and virtual labs.
• Review manuscript, create storyboards, contribute during alpha and beta builds for digital assets.
• Learn and provide support with digital tools, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team
• Heavy contributions with user testing, serving under the leadership of management and senior members of the team
• Heavy contributions partnering with Instructional Designers during product build and serving under Senior members of the team.
• Hold responsibility for accuracy and maintenance of build documentation.
• Become experts in accessibility with heavy contributions to this area throughout the product development process.
• Heavy contributions to the product build process
• Meet all intermediate and final schedules.
• Contribute on cross-functional teams to ensure that product requirements, project schedules, and product goals are met and on completed on time.
• Contribute during digital launches with vendors including helping to create templates, trackers, and digital content development guidelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to identify, test, troubleshoot, define, and follow up on technical bugs and enhancements as they arise in authoring tools and the platform. When necessary, help define requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements
• Work on digital product tasks such as metadata tagging, concept mapping, and digital editing.
• QA the work of the vendor to ensure it adheres to guidelines
• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.

A successful candidate may have:**

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Instructional Technology, Instructional Design, or related field required.
• 0-2 years experience working in digital content development that includes teaching and learning materials.
• Experience with authoring tools, learning management systems, and content management systems.
• Previous K-12 teaching experience.
• Ability to create and visualize animated and interactive content.

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The pay range for this position is between $50 – 55K annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered.

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