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The Panther Group
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Digital Instructional Technologist
Posted: 05/20/2025
2025-05-20
2025-07-18
Employment Type:
Contract
Industry: Administrative Supervisor
Job Number: 43191
Pay Rate: 37.86
Job Description
The Panther Group is seeking a Digital Instructional Technologist that is outgoing, experience focused, and a relationship-minded educator to assist with the training and support of many modern digital solutions for a university in the Boston, MA area.
Technology can be seen as a barrier for reaching our true potential. One of the goals of the university, specifically the role of the Digital Instructional Technologist, is to remove this barrier by facilitating thoughtful training programs to modernize and digitize university business.
Reporting to the Digital Solutions Training Lead, the Digital Instructional Technologist will be tasked with creating and facilitating technical trainings for the services offered. They should be capable of understanding technical concepts and “translating” them into useful trainings that will be delivered to large groups of people. They will also assist in the creation, revising, and adjustment of trainings as needed to maintain successful education of the community.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Training Facilitation (Percent of Time - 60%)
Reporting to the Digital Solutions Training Lead, the Digital Instructional Technologist will be tasked with creating and facilitating technical trainings for the services offered. They should be capable of understanding technical concepts and “translating” them into useful trainings that will be delivered to large groups of people. They will also assist in the creation, revising, and adjustment of trainings as needed to maintain successful education of the community.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
Training Facilitation (Percent of Time - 60%)
- Facilitate training on modern workplace and classroom technologies based on a set curriculum and schedule.
- Triage questions from training attendees to service owners and subject matter experts.
- Follow up with attendees to ensure training was useful and there are no outstanding questions.
- Promote other training sessions that would benefit the audience.
- Design, develop, and ideate new trainings based on changes to existing services or new service roll outs.
- Write training scripts and curriculum that allows for a progression of learning from easy use cases to more advanced ones.
- Work with subject matter experts to ensure training is accurate.
- Set update schedule for trainings so they remain accurate.
- Determine scheduling needs for how often a training should occur.
- Determine best method to train for a specific tool (synchronous, asynchronous, in-person, remote, etc).
- Collaborate with communications team to properly market new and updated trainings.
- Attend project meetings for new service roll outs to determine training needs.
- Work with knowledge, solutions engineering, and service desk teams to ensure there is a consistent message about how a tool is used and what trainings exist for it.
- Work with product and program managers to understand the roadmap of supported services.
- Follow vendor documentation and update trainings as necessary.
- Gather feedback from trainees in order to constantly update existing trainings and create new ones based on the community’s needs.
- B.S. degree in instructional technology or 3 years of related experience.
- Demonstrated experience integrating current and emerging technologies in support of modern workplace initiatives and teaching and learning.
- 3+ years of teaching or training experience, preferably in a technical setting.
- Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and remain current in developing trends in the teaching and learning community.
- Ability to independently create curriculum, training opportunities, and training materials in support of the adoption of educational technology.
- Proficiency with common educational and modern workplace technology tools (Canvas, Microsoft 365, Panopto, LTI standards, Smartsheet, Robin, etc).
- Experience with media production tools (screen casting, digital video production and editing, etc).
- Experience in higher ed, or other academic or research community environment.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to clearly identify the teaching and learning goals of faculty, staff, and students and provide relevant, practical solutions using the available technology solutions.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, work with vendor contacts and support systems, and collaborate directly with the ITS Customer Experience organization to resolve faculty, staff and student support requests.
- Ability to communicate and document clearly.
- Demonstrated strong writing skills.
- Desire for continuous self-improvement and maintenance of skills through training and demonstrated commitment to professional growth.
- Curious by nature and unafraid of asking questions.
- Self-starter, with a proven track record for creativity and initiative.
- Able to prioritize multiple projects and work streams in a fast-paced environment.
- 2-4 years of experience supporting academic technologies, instructional design, and/or course development experience in a higher education environment.
- M.S. degree in educational technology, instructional design, or related field.
- Experience with learning analytics and data driven improvement of student outcomes.
- Experience with accessibility standards and creating accessible teaching and learning materials.
- Knowledge of service management and ITIL processes.
Meet Your Recruiter
Amanda Krafcik
Amanda is a Client Success Manager and has 10+ years of experience in the staffing industry. She focuses on finding the best talent for our clients and is a passionate team player. Fun fact: Amanda loves movies and is always watching them or talking about them on podcasts.
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