- Full-time
- Admissions/Enrollment
- Walden University
- Minneapolis
Instructional Designer
Minneapolis
- Full-time
- Admissions/Enrollment
- Walden University
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Job description
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About Walden University
Walden University, an Adtalem Global Education institution, supports a diverse community of adult learners from across the U.S. and other countries, who seek to achieve their academic goals and make positive, lasting social change in their professions and communities. Walden offers more than 100 online degree and certificate programs, for students pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral or certificate. Walden University has graduated more than 174,000 students and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
In our U.S. locations, we operate on a hybrid work model with three in-office days and two remote days per week. Starting Q1 2025, we will transition to a four-day in-office schedule, Monday–Thursday. This in-office time fosters creativity, innovation, communication, and stronger team relationships, supporting both individual and organizational success.
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Opportunity at a Glance
The Instructional Designer role is responsible for designing and creating engaging and compelling learning activities and content in conjunction with key stakeholders. With a heavy emphasis on interactive and multimedia technology-driven components, this role requires extensive collaboration with subject matter experts, business stakeholders internal reviewers, and educational technology colleagues to apply best practices of instructional design to create high-quality and innovative learning experiences and assets for Walden employees. The Instructional Designer will also develop and disseminate internal design standards, provide project management support to development efforts, and analyze learning experience effectiveness and usability across the curriculum.
Responsibilities
- Conduct needs assessment, identify learner gaps, analyze data, and make recommendations for content enhancements and/or improvements to further increase learner engagement and close learner gaps.
- Advises on appropriate use of educational media and technology tools to enhance instruction and create new and engaging learning environments.
- Work closely with subject matter experts and key stakeholders to manage and support the design and development of online, hybrid, and in-person learning experiences with an emphasis on interactive and multimedia technology-driven components.
- Leverages the ADDIE model to drive instructional design activities and projects.
- Communicate regularly and professionally with entire development team.
- Collaborates with colleagues in developing tools and templates for instructional development.
- Collaborates with Learning, Development & Enablement colleagues in developing, continually refining, and disseminating standards and best practices for instructional design and development of instructional media.
- Researches and stays current with emerging educational technologies.
- Completes other duties as assigned.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
- Bachelor's Degree required and master's degree Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Education (degree or credential) preferred or related field (Computer Science, Multimedia).
- 3 Minimum of years of experience designing online and/or blended courses, preferably in a higher education context required.
- Demonstrated experience implementing instructional design principles and best practices into content development, preferably for distance learning required.
- Experience working with faculty to design, deliver, implement and maintain curriculum projects required.
- Experience conducting needs assessments, analyzing data, learning outcome assessments, and using data to make recommendations required.
- Experience incorporating technology and media to enhance instruction and improve learning required.
- Experience with current and emerging learning, communication, and collaboration technologies required.
- Working knowledge of HTML, web page layout, authoring tools and web technologies is required.
- Working knowledge of MS Office and Adobe products.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and personal accountability.
- Consultative approach to problem solving.
- Strong relationship building skills.
- Ability to grasp complex subject matter and synthesize information quickly.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and professional deadline-driven environment with many projects and initiatives.
- Be highly motivated and be comfortable making decisions and judgment calls on content development.
In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $53,520 and $80,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.
Adtalem offers a robust suite of benefits including:
- Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
- Participation in Adtalem’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
- 12 Paid Holidays
For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.adtalem.com/benefits.
Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

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