Nectar.Inc

Learning and Development

• Oversee a small group of instructional designers across multiple concurrent courses
• Review course plans, course guide batches, and LMS builds against client standards and checklists
• Provide substantive design feedback on outcomes, assessments, and activity mix
• Sign off on work before client submission and return work that is not ready
• Review built courses against approved blueprints
• Check that interactives render and behave correctly in the LMS
• Make design decisions on build questions
• Maintain accessibility and client design standards across courses
• Attend client calls and present design decisions, explain trade-offs, and absorb feedback
• Attend ID and SME calls as needed
• Coach and onboard contract designers to client templates, review processes, and standards
• Work with the project manager on sequencing, risks, and realistic dates
• Escalate scope or capacity problems early
• Keep review status visible in the project system
• Work in Alchemy's systems and client systems, including Google Workspace, Slack, the project system, and the client's LMS
• Evaluate where AI-generated content meets standards and where it does not

Lead Instructional Designer – Contract

• Partner with faculty subject matter experts to develop course plans, learning outcomes, assessment maps, and course structure
• Write course guides or blueprints containing instructional narrative, activities, assessments, rubrics, and resource links
• Review and write learning outcomes using Bloom's Taxonomy and related frameworks
• Design formative and summative assessments, knowledge checks, and learning activities
• Draft media plans and coordinate with media producers and interactive developers
• Apply client templates, style guides, terminology, and design standards
• Ensure accessibility compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA and remediate accessibility issues
• Hold regular working sessions with subject matter experts, including weekly meetings
• Attend project and client calls as required by the project or contract
• Maintain task status in the client's project system, usually ClickUp
• Run course review and approval processes and route deliverables to named reviewers
• Review built courses in the LMS against approved blueprints, log fixes, confirm corrections, and sign off before client delivery
• Raise schedule, communication, and scope risks early

Instructional Designer – Contract

• Advise and train customers on implementing Curie with their faculty through onboarding sessions, workshops, and faculty-facing guidance
• Communicate instructional design principles and best practices to customers, faculty, and academic leaders
• Create and maintain training materials, job aids, and implementation guides for Curie
• Lead and direct a distributed team of instructional designers, including employees and contractors
• Set project scope, assign instructional design work, recruit and onboard designers and contractors, provide feedback, and review quality
• Establish and maintain instructional design standards for Alchemy and Curie work
• Ensure course designs meet accessibility and quality expectations, including WCAG and Quality Matters
• Serve as instructional design subject-matter expert for Product Development and advise on features and roadmap
• Test and quality-assure new Curie features and releases
• Bring customer feedback and field insights to the product team
• Scope instructional design portions of RFPs and proposals using the Alchemy product catalog
• Partner with the Director of Project Management to deliver projects within scope, budget, and timeline
• Develop repeatable, scalable approaches for large or multi-course projects
• Coordinate with outside vendors and partners
• Lead projects as the instructional designer when needed

Lead Instructional Designer – Contract

Instructional Designer – Contract

Director of Instructional Design