Learning Architect

Description:

The primary purpose of this position is to provide development, management, and instruction for the Air Force Global College's (AFGC) seven PME programs (officer and enlisted) to more than 32,000 active, guard, reserve, sister service, and civilian students worldwide. This position may require curriculum development, management, and teaching across disciplines. Faculty members are also expected to pursue active research, publication, and service to the AFGC, as directed by the dean of AFGC.

Requirements:

• Extensive knowledge and practical application in taking instructional and curriculum design from concept through implementation to evaluation within a higher-education and online learning context.
• Skilled at working in a cross-functional environment with a diverse group of individuals, to include excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills to convey ideas, concepts, recommendations, and feedback to a range of professionals to developers.
• Broad knowledge and skills in adult, student-centered distance learning strategies in higher education.
• Broad knowledge and skill performing project management over large and small teams and tasks supporting instructional design for higher educational programs.
• Specialized skills conducting design and development within a learning management system (LMS) (e.g., Canvas or equivalent), to include integrating educational technologies.
• Broad knowledge employing the foundational theories, concepts, and strategies of distance education.
• Broad knowledge of program level instructional design; able to develop program-level outcomes; can conduct curriculum mapping which scaffolds learning from introduction to assessment.
• Specialized skills with conducting research within the scholarship of teaching and learning with subjects, related but not limited to, adult education, distance education, learning sciences, data analytics, or the psychology of learning.
• Broad knowledge and skill in designing, developing, delivering, and evaluating faculty development programs.
• Abilities to analyze a wide range of facts and/or conditions and make assessments and improvements to program effectiveness as well as the improvement of complex management processes and systems in distance learning environments.