Instructional Designer

Description:

The San Mateo County Community College District is committed to achieving educational equity for all students. As outlined in the Districts Strategic Plan, "success, equity, and social justice for our students are longstanding goals." The Districts "Students First" Strategic Plan is focused on "Student Success, Equity and Social Justice." We provide students with a rich and dynamic learning experience that embraces differences - emphasizing collaboration and engaging students in and out of the classroom, encouraging them to realize their goals, and to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders. When you join our team at San Mateo County Community College District, you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice that requires broad collaboration among faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners.
We value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. Therefore, we prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to a professional educational community. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded individual committed to collaborating with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also committed to closing equity gaps. An equity-minded individual is a person who already does or has demonstrated the desire to:

(1) Understand the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;

(2) Reframe inequities as a problem of practice and view the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;

(3) Encourage positive race-consciousness and embrace human difference;

(4) Reflect on institutional and teaching practices and aim to make them more culturally responsive; and

(5) Strategically build buy-in and participation among colleagues for equity-related initiatives.

The San Mateo County Community College District seeks employees who value mentorship and working in a collegial, collaborative environment, guided by a commitment to helping all students achieve their educational goals. All departments strongly encourage collaboration across disciplines to create inclusive, integrated, and interdisciplinary learning experiences. College faculty are expected to be knowledgeable about, and willing to use, different learning and teaching methods appropriate to the students they serve.

The Position:
The College seeks a full-time, tenure track faculty member in Instructional Design. The ideal candidate will share the College's commitment to educating a racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. The Instructional Designer provides pedagogical and educational technology support for face-to-face, hybrid and online courses and is a college-wide position, housed in the Academic Support and Learning Technologies Division. This position reports directly to the Dean of Academic Support and Learning Technologies.
The duties below are representative of the duties of the classification and are not intended to cover all of the duties performed by the incumbent(s)of any particular position. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the scope of work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to this classification.

• Provide hands-on consulting with faculty on course design, course development, learning objectives, classroom management, active learning, assessment methods, and teaching strategies for face-to-face, hybrid and online courses

• Present on-campus and online structured professional development training and learning opportunities for faculty and classified staff through individual consultation, programs, and workshops. Through professional development training activities, promote mastery of technology skills and pedagogy to design and deliver successful face-to-face, hybrid and online courses

• Participate in assessment of online courses to ensure regular substantive interaction between instructor and student in all distance education courses and support the colleges peer online course review process as part of a larger review team

• Maintain currency regarding copyright, accessibility compliance (Section 504 and Section 508) regulations for all instructional materials, state authorization for distance education, and student authentication for online and hybrid courses

• Implement creative approaches and innovative uses of technology and pedagogy to address different learning styles, diverse student populations, variety of course content, and accessibility guidelines

• Create partnerships and provide leadership and support for faculty and classified staff in implementing effective pedagogy and use of technology to support teaching and learning

• Maintain currency in knowledge and trends related to teaching and learning and application of technology to enhance teaching and learning of diverse populations

• Create documentation and an inventory of resources of potential interest to faculty

• Participate on department, College, and District committees as appropriate

• Coordinate with counterparts at the District colleges and District Office

• Must be flexible and be available to support evening and weekend instructors

• Perform broader instructional design and support projects as needed and assigned