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Job Title:

Instructional Consultant

Department:

Academic Affairs Administration | Teaching and Learning Institute

Job Description
The Drake Institute’s Instructional Consultant will join a team of professionals who coordinate and conduct consultations, programs, and workshops on evidence-based instructional strategies, learning assessments, and course design for faculty, staff, and graduate students. This consultant will also be attentive to supporting evidence-based teaching practices that foster accessibility, as well as student well-being, sense of belonging, and academic excellence. The Instructional Consultant participates in Drake Institute and university teaching initiatives; engages in project management; collaborates on program design and delivery; and conducts needs assessments for professional learning related to instruction. The successful candidate is to discuss in their cover letter a statement that describes their past and/or planned future contributions to advancing teaching excellence among faculty, staff, and graduate students.

Duties/Responsibilities

Educational Development: 70%

• Develops, plans, and implements services and programs on evidenced-based teaching practices (e.g., conferences, workshops, seminars, resources).
• Provides individual, group, and unit-level consultations as assigned.
• Engages with departments to identify instructional challenges and potential solutions.
• Supports and participates in university teaching initiatives.
• Contributes to the Drake Institute’s repository of educational development materials (e.g., workshop materials, literature reviews, teaching guides).
• Serves on selected university committees on teaching and learning.
• Contributes to university, state, and national dialogue and innovation on college teaching.
• Tracks and reports on educational development work.

Project/Program Development and Management: 20%

• Assists with conducting needs assessments and responds with resources, services, and programming.
• Collaborates in determination of events to be undertaken and in program development.
• In consultation with Drake Institute leadership, determines and defines project scope and objectives.
• Recommends resources that can help reach project objectives.
• In consultation with Drake Institute leadership, develops and manages a detailed project schedule and work plan.
• Monitors projects and adjusts as needed.
• Provides project updates on a consistent basis to stakeholders about each project, adjustments, and progress.
• Participates in and supports Drake Institute program assessment and evaluation.

Other Duties as Assigned: 10%

• Engages in continual professional learning to maintain and strengthen knowledge and skills.

Education/Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree sought
• At least two years of demonstrated experience as an instructional designer, instructional consultant, or faculty developer
• Demonstrated excellence in accessibility, equity, and/or inclusion in higher education and ability to work effectively with diverse populations
• Demonstrated expertise and success in evidence-based teaching practices.
• Teaching experience in higher education contexts
• Demonstrated knowledge of backward course and curriculum design
• Demonstrated experience assessing the needs for, developing, and facilitating in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous professional learning programming
• Demonstrated project management and problem-solving skills
• Resourcefulness, creativity, and adaptability
• Exceptional verbal, written, and visual communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and as part of a dynamic team

Preferred:

• Doctoral degree
• Experience developing, implementing, and assessing professional learning programming
• Experience working in a center for teaching and learning
• Experience designing Expected Learning Outcomes Assessment
• Experience supporting grant-funded and scholarly initiatives

Additional Information:

Application Materials:

Applicants should apply to this position online and submit the following:

• A letter of interest describing why you are interested in the position, why you are a good fit for the position based on your experience, and an overview of your past and/or planned future contributions to advancing teaching excellence among faculty, staff, and graduate students.
• A current and comprehensive resume or curriculum vitae.
• Three professional references (name, title, relationship to the applicant, phone number, email address).

Career Roadmap

Proposed salary range: $53,800-$71,700

Function: Education

Sub-Function: Instructional Design

Career Band: Individual Contributor - Specialized

Careel Level: Specialized - S2

About the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning

The Institute for Teaching and Learning was launched in autumn 2016 to support Ohio State as an exemplar of teaching excellence and to provide at-scale professional learning, evidence-based instructional strategies, and research and policy that elevate, across the university, the work of all who teach. The Institute

• Models best practices in and creates programs based on evidence-based educational development.
• Provides programming designed to build community amongst those who teach.
• Promotes continuous improvement in educational excellence at all career stages.
• Elevates and amplifies the work of educational developers at the university.

Institute goals include: 1) Providing high-quality, high-impact, evidence-based professional learning programming for all who teach; 2) Scaling and deepening professional learning through strategic partnerships and collaborations; 3) Recognizing and rewarding teaching that promotes inclusion and student learning; 4) Designing and sustaining an innovative digital presence and communications portfolio; 5) Leading in educational development and teaching and learning research.

The Institute seeks to recruit staff who share our institutional commitment to fostering student learning and growth in an inclusive and equitable environment. We value diversity along several dimensions, including but not limited to race, ethnicity and national origins, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, neurodiversity, class, and religion.

Final candidates are subject to successful completion of a background check. A drug screen or physical may be required during the post offer process.

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Location:

Smith Laboratory (0065)

Position Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

40

Shift:

First Shift