Open Educational Resources (Oer) Instructional Designer (Term Position)

The William H. Hannon Library invites creative, collaborative candidates to apply for the role of Open Educational Resources (OER) Instructional Designer.

The OER Instructional Designer is a two-year, grant-funded position that provides skilled support to twelve teams of faculty developing, adapting, and publishing OER across a variety of disciplines.

Reporting to the OER for Social Justice Project Director, the incumbent

will coordinate with faculty members, librarians, and instructional

technologists/designers from across four California colleges and universities to design, develop, and implement OER to improve the affordability, accessibility, and diversity of course materials for twelve high-enrollment

courses.

This position is fully funded from the point of hire (target date Jan 8, 2024) through December 31, 2025 through the U.S. Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot grant.

View full position responsibilities and qualifications and apply here.

About the OER for Social Justice grant:

Loyola Marymount University received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to lead a three-year initiative – OER for Social

Justice - that supports the creation and use of open educational resources (OER) across four California private institutions.

Librarians from LMU, Saint Mary’s College of California, Santa Clara University, and the University of San Francisco are using the funds to support twelve faculty teams to adapt, create, and publish OER that integrate diverse, equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist resources into high-enrollment courses across multiple disciplines. The William H. Library is the administrator for the grant in collaboration with an inter-institutional project team of librarians from all four institutions.

About the William H. Hannon Library

The William H. Hannon Library (http://library.lmu.edu) serves as

the intellectual and cultural hub of the university. The Hannon Library was the recipient of the 2021 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in the university category.

We share the university's commitment to inclusive excellence, the education of the whole person, and the building of a just society. We invite women, persons of color, LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people, people living with disabilities, and/or individuals with other diverse life experiences and beliefs to apply.Please read more about the library's commitment to DEIA and our efforts at: library.lmu.edu/deia

Location & Hours:

• The OER Instructional Designer may be a fully-remote position. Candidates from all US time-zones will be considered, but the incumbent will be expected to support regular synchronous project coordination and collaboration with faculty and project teams based on the West Coast.
• The incumbent will also have the opportunity to travel at least twice during the project to consult with faculty and librarians at the grant partner campuses in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, CA.
• If the incumbent lives in the Los Angeles area, a hybrid schedule and workspace on campus at Loyola Marymount University may be negotiated.

Salary:

• The grant-funded salary for this exempt position is $70,000/annual ($5,833.33 monthly), with a 3% increase in year 2. The position is funded from the point of hire (desired start date January 8, 2024) through December 31, 2025. An earlier start date may be negotiable.

Special Instructions/ Candidate Info Sessions

We are hosting two online, webinar-format information sessions for prospective candidates to learn more about the position, the grant, and the William H. Hannon Library. Register here:

• Thursday, September 7, 4-4:45pm PST (register here)
• Wednesday September 13, 4-4:45pm PST (register here)

For full consideration, applicants should submit all application materials in Workday before 9am on October 2, 2023.

For more information about the position, please contact: Nataly Blas, Project Director. [email protected] / 310-338-5329