Instructional Designer II (Web Accessibility)

Location: College Station, Texas, United States; onsite university staff position

Salary: $62,000–$80,000 annually; proposed minimum salary of $5,166.67 monthly

Company

Texas A&M University supports faculty recruitment, development, retention, and professional services through Faculty Affairs.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary webmaster for Faculty Affairs web properties, including content publishing, maintenance, quality assurance, and front-end troubleshooting.
• Create, update, and organize accessible web pages, navigation, documents, forms, multimedia, and other digital content.
• Develop faculty and academic-leader professional development resources, including online modules, guides, workshops, presentations, templates, and assessments.
• Apply adult learning principles and instructional design methods to in-person, online, and hybrid learning experiences.
• Evaluate website and learning-resource quality using accessibility reviews, analytics, Siteimprove, learner feedback, and stakeholder input.
• Manage projects from needs assessment and planning through development, implementation, evaluation, and completion while collaborating with faculty, subject matter experts, administrators, and university partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, instructional technology, education, communications, digital media, web design/development, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least two years of related professional experience in instructional design, instructional technology, faculty or professional development, website administration, content management, digital communications, or a related area.
• Knowledge of instructional design, adult learning, digital accessibility, usability, information architecture, web content strategy, and quality assurance.
• Experience with content management systems and website publishing; working knowledge of HTML and CSS and familiarity with JavaScript and related web technologies.
• Ability to collaborate with faculty, subject matter experts, administrators, technical professionals, and other stakeholders while managing multiple priorities.
• Applicants must work at the College Station, Texas location.

Nice to have

• Master’s or doctoral degree in instructional design, instructional technology, education, UX/UI design, communications, digital media, web design/development, or a related field.
• Five or more years of related professional experience, particularly in higher education, faculty development, training, or web content management.
• Experience with WordPress, Cascade, Google Analytics, Siteimprove, Canvas, multimedia production, SEO, and project-management tools.
• Experience facilitating workshops and professional development in both in-person and online environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurance with university contributions toward health and basic life premiums.
• Paid holidays, sick leave, and vacation leave.
• Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
• Free exercise programs, wellness release time, LinkedIn Learning, tuition assistance, and educational release time.
• Work within a university environment focused on respect, excellence, leadership, loyalty, integrity, and selfless service.

Hiring process

• A cover letter and resume are strongly recommended.
• Employment is contingent on credential and information verification and completion of a criminal history investigation.