Instructional Designer

Department

Learning | Design

Job posted on

Jan 21, 2025

Employment type

Permanent

**About Emeritus**

Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 80 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China.

Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches has educated more than 300,000 individuals across 80+ countries.

Founded in 2015, Emeritus, part of Eruditus Group, has more than 1,800 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. The company is backed by prominent investors including Accel, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, and Bertelsmann.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Build and align content with the learning outcomes, learning activities, and stakeholder specifications.
- Design storyboards for engaging and visually appealing videos to enhance learning effectiveness.
- Use visual design principles and techniques to conceptualize content, articulate ideas, and design multimedia elements.
- Collaborate with the production team and provide clear and concise instructions.
- Perform QA and QC to ensure the learning materials in the learning platform conform with the quality standards.
- Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure project requirements and specifications are met.
- Deliver projects on time and ensure they meet the high-quality benchmarks of the organization.
- Participate in internal continuous improvement efforts by offering ideas and solutions for process improvement.

**Skills & Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in any discipline
- 2 to 8 years of experience in instructional design and online content development
- Excellent communication, presentation, and time management skills
- Demonstrated experience in scripting engaging storyboards that effectively convey ideas
- Demonstrated experience in designing and developing visually compelling videos and other multimedia assets
- Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Office Suite (i.e. MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and authoring tools such as Articulate 360 and H5P
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
- Attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication, management, and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Degree or certification in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, or a related field is strongly preferred
- Demonstrated skill working with online learning tools and software
- Experience designing or converting courses for online delivery
- Knowledge of the backward design model
- Experience working on Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Knowledge of accessibility standards
- Familiarity with known course design quality standards (e.g., Quality Matters)
- Emeritus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws._