Senior Manager, Learning Design Strategy

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If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is : Grade : Management_Executive 609 Pay Range : $113,200.00 - $203,800.00

Job Description Leads a team of strategists who oversee instructional design, assessment, and multimedia development for Academic Program Development. The Integration Solutions team sets our highest benchmarks and exemplars for learning design and development. They also provide training and enablement for implementation at scale. Additionally, this team is responsible for a variety of ad hoc, strategic initiatives as requested by executives in Program Development. When needed, this team will also be asked to initiate, remediate, accelerate, and / or intervene on high-profile, student-facing projects that require masterful execution. As principal strategist, this role maintains a roadmap and integration plan for adopting emerging edtech and achieving market-leading quality. The execution of this plan-at scale-is a key success metric for this role and a key metric for Program Development. This leader brings expert-level competency in the learning sciences to direct a cross-functional team of innovators and strategists, including domain experts in learning design, assessment, visual design, and multimedia. Together, they manage the continuous improvement of our collective design and development capabilities.

Location : This position will be located in our Salt Lake City, Utah office.

Primary Responsibilities

• Oversees an interdisciplinary team of experts that integrate new and innovate design approaches and ensures the readiness of team members to adopt them.
• Ensures readiness for emerging tech vetted by the Program Experience team with training, best practices, coaching, and consulting for all design and development.
• Develops and executes a strategy to continuously measure and improve the quality of our course materials.
• Manages a hybrid portfolio of new / improved design projects, executive-sponsored initiatives, team member onboarding and ongoing training, quality reviews, and high-priority project interventions.
• Leads out in solving complex design and technical issues that require significant analysis, troubleshooting, and collaboration with other teams.
• Maintains an authoritative coaching relationship with the respective experts on their team (with sufficient...

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