director / instructional development

Provides visionary, collaborative, and coordinated leadership for creating and implementing multi-modality instructional, learning design, and pedagogical practices that maximize student learning across the curriculum. Cultivates partnerships with CMU instructors, regardless of their unit, instructional setting, or mode of course delivery to enhance the institution's culture of teaching and learning. Collaborates with other university constituents to align resources to ensure a high-quality learning environment and related support strategies. Manages and reports on data relevant to instructional development. Reports to the Executive Director/Curriculum and Instructional Support.

Required Qualifications

Master's degree from an accredited higher education institution in an Education related discipline (e.g. Higher Education, Education Leadership,
Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, or a related field).
Experience coordinating collegiate-level instructional design and development programs.
Experience designing, creating, and delivering instructional design and development and related programming in multiple formats for multiple faculty audiences.
Collegiate-level teaching experience.
Experience with online and multi-modality course design and development processes.
Understanding of collegiate-level teaching, learning, course development, and the appropriate uses of learning technologies as they apply to student success in various disciplines.
Understanding of Learning Management System processes and operations.
Demonstrated ability to motivate and work collaboratively with faculty, administrators, and other units across campus in the promotion of successful student learning.
Demonstrated administrative experience in areas such as strategic planning and personnel supervision.
Evidence of excellent communication, interpersonal, and consultative skills.
Ability to utilize independent judgment, and project a service-oriented attitude.
Ability to effectively prioritize workload by managing multiple tasks and meeting deadlines.
Ability to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Preferred Qualifications

Doctorate degree from an accredited higher education institution.
Record of scholarship related to teaching and learning.
Experience as an online course designer, developer and instructor.
Experience with creation of multimedia learning objects, including collaborative projects using audio, video, and/or graphic design.

Duties & Responsibilities

Oversees operations within the office of Curriculum and Instructional Support relating to multi-modality instructional design and development, faculty instructional and pedagogy professional development activities, and related teaching and learning initiatives.
Supports all CMU instructors regardless of unit, instructional setting, program curriculum, or modality of course delivery.
Collaborates with other university constituents (e.g., departments, programs, colleges, administrative units) to align resources to ensure a high-quality learning environment and related support strategies.
Provides leadership and expertise to enable, enhance, and sustain instructional development based on sound pedagogical research, the needs of university constituents, and the strategic directions of the university.
Engages the teaching and learning community to enhance knowledge sharing, experimentation and prototyping of teaching, and learning initiatives.
Designs and implements programs aimed at promoting, implementing, and assessing high impact teaching strategies, course design, and evaluation techniques as they enhance student learning in all instructional modalities.
Manages the development, delivery, and evaluation of instructional development opportunities for all instructors to advance teaching excellence, including but not limited to workshops, seminars, faculty learning communities, discussions, mentoring/coaching, and individual or unit-level consultations.
Collaborates effectively with all university constituents (e.g., departments, programs, colleges, and committees) to enable implementation of innovative instructional techniques and pedagogies to foster innovative curricula and student engagement.
Collaborates on a multifaceted communications strategy aimed at increasing Curriculum and Instructional Support's visibility and promoting a culture of faculty engagement and collaboration.
Collaborates with other members of the Office of Curriculum and Instructional Support on the development, design, delivery, and demonstration of learning activities.
Provides leadership in the day-to-day operations, management, and staff supervision of the unit.
Collects, analyzes, and reports data to assess the effectiveness of Curriculum and Instructional Support programming and provides reports and other documents as needed.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervision Exercised

Supervisors are expected to support the Leadership Standards of Central Michigan University and foster a culture that inspires excellence. The Leadership Standards define how we lead and treat others in our teams. As leaders, it is our responsibility to seek input from our teams to continuously improve leadership abilities and demonstration of the standards. Additionally, it is our responsibility to encourage and support the growth and development of those whom we lead. At CMU, we encourage employees to grow both personally and professionally, and thus advance CMU's culture of excellence.

Message to Applicants

Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering an environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We are especially interested in highly qualified candidates who will advance and promote CMU's mission, vision, and leadership standards.

You must submit an on-line application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position.

Cover letters may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.

Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit letters of recommendation. If you wish to include recommendation letter(s) that are not required, please utilize the Recommendation Letters upload field.

If there is another applicable document you wish to include that is not required, please utilize the Other Document (1) upload field.

Supervisors are expected to support the Leadership Standards of Central Michigan University and foster a culture that inspires excellence. Please review the Leadership Standards before applying for this position.

Employee Group

Professional & Administrative -Salary

Staff Pay Level

Pay Range

$80,000 - $90,000 per year

Division

Academic Affairs

Department

Curriculum & Instructional Support

Position Status

Regular

Position End Date

Employment Status

Full-Time

FTE

1.0

Position Type

12 month

Weekly Work Schedule

Mon-Fri, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. / weekends and evenings as needed

Location

Mount Pleasant, MI

About the Department

About CMU

Central Michigan University has a more than 125-year legacy of preparing students to become leaders and changemakers in their communities and in their personal and professional lives.

We serve nearly 15,500 students on our Mount Pleasant campus, in satellite locations around the state and throughout the country, and through flexible online programs. Many of our approximately 300 undergraduate, master's, specialist and doctoral programs in the arts, media, business, education, human services, health professions, liberal arts, social sciences, medicine, science and engineering are nationally ranked for excellence.

CMU leads the nation in leadership development programming through our Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, and we are proud to be among only 5% of U.S. universities in the top two Carnegie research classifications. Our faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students in areas such as Great Lakes research, medical innovation, engineering technology and more.

Central is home to 17 men's and women's Division 1 sports including football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling and more. Our student-athletes achieve great success in competition and in the classroom, capturing Mid-American Conference championships and maintaining an average cumulative GPA of

CMU is located in Mount Pleasant, a community that blends the best of small-town living with big-city amenities. It's part of the culturally varied and vibrant Great Lakes Bay Region that also includes Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and the state's largest Native American community, centered on the Saginaw Chippewa Isabella Reservation in Mount Pleasant.

Area residents enjoy the mix of outdoor activities, cultural events, shopping and dining options, and family attractions. Other major Michigan destinations and attractions — Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Traverse City, wineries, beaches, golf and ski resorts, and many more — are within easy reach of the city's central location in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

CMU employees enjoy access to a nationally recognized wellness program along with health care and benefits that exceed regional, state and national norms.

CMU Leadership Standards

Central Michigan University is a place where we value students and work for their success, where we act as family, and where employees are engaged, appreciated and have extraordinary opportunities to make a difference.

We intentionally maintain and strengthen the hallmark CMU culture that sets us apart from our peers by expecting CMU leaders and employees to model the following Leadership Standards and develop them within their teams.

Please review the Leadership Standards before applying for this position.