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Job Description
Who We Are
Chegg Skills/Thinkful is a new type of school that brings high-growth
tech careers to ambitious people everywhere. We provide 1-on-1 learning
through our network of industry experts, hiring partners, and online
platform to deliver a structured and flexible education to help upskill
and reskill the workforce. We offer programs in tech and tech adjacent
fields, such as AI, cybersecurity, web development, data science, data
analytics, UX design, and project management, as well as power skills
and leadership disciplines like sales and frontline management.
Job Description
The Instructional Designer will be responsible for either assisting with
the design (under the supervision of a Senior Instructional Designer) or
designing a program(s) that leads to the maximization of student
learning and career outcomes in one or multiple domains. With the
support of a Senior Instructional Designer, they will analyze data,
define and run research, and iterate content and curricula for skills
training across Thinkful\'s portfolio of courses to achieve these
outcomes. The content created will address the core needs of learners
who wish to upskill or move into new career paths.
The Instructional Designer must be knowledgeable of the best practices
in adult learning and bring experience developing content and
assessments to meet the needs of learners and partners. They will stay
up to date on industry-recognized credentials and skills to prepare
students to test for certifications or job outcomes. They will then use
this set of findings to inspire informed development of our programs for
a designated area and measure the efficacy of the content they design at
delivering improved student outcomes.
Our Talent Pool
Our talent pool is for qualified candidates not necessarily seeking
immediate employment however, open to being considered for a position
when it becomes available. Additionally, these contractors will not
necessarily have regular or ongoing work, but they will be asked to jump
in on curriculum-building projects as the need arises. As we expand our
portfolio of programs, we see this pool of talent as our primary way we
can quickly scale our team to meet demand.
There is no need to follow-up on your application. Our recruiters will
review resumes on a regular basis to determine and notify candidates if
their qualifications match the requirements for the role.
Responsibilities
- Design learning objectives, program capstones, course assessments
that are driven by learning outcomes
- Conduct surveys, tests, and competitive analyses to ensure our
learning objectives are teaching towards the highest-demand job
skills in each industry we teach
- Partner with a Senior Instructional Designer to formulate a strategy
for improving student outcomes for your assigned program
- Work directly with SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to build course
content and assessments; you may use ChatGPT and other AI platforms
to generate curriculum content
- Maintain and improve instructional materials for a single program,
drawing on existing metrics like pacing, skills attainment, and
mastery
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- Analyze learner data to identify and make improvements to the
program based on that data
- Work with cross-functional teams to communicate updates/changes to
course content
- Test updated content with users as it is being developed to ensure
outcomes
- Design for a diverse group of student personas - our students have
varied education, skills, work backgrounds, and demands on their
time: we must build solutions that solve for each group in equitable
and personalized way
- Ensure our content delivery is viable and feasible: reco mend and
develop content solutions for student problems that can be supported
by our Operations teams at scale, and delivered within budget by our
Subject Matter Experts, Instructional Designers, and Editorial teams
Requirements
- 1-2 years working in a Curriculum Development, Learning Design,
Learning Engineering, or Instructional Design role
- Experience designing curriculum for an online education platform
- Excellent writing and editing skills
- Experience working directly with SMEs and other content developers
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- Understanding and application of adult learning best practices
- Ability to contextualize skills and tools taught in the program to
specific job functions
- Ability to use backward design to create and iterate content as
needed
- Self-motivated, organized, reliable, flexible, deadline-oriented,
have keen attention to detail and can complete multiple tasks in a
timely fashion
- Comfortable with remote work
Consistently deliver content that meets set criteria and is on time to
support our program launch roadmap
Create new and revised lesson content for the onlin