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Part Time
About the Organisation
Offering a student-first connected learning platform, Chegg's student hub enables users to save time and money, as well as take advantage of smart learning opportunities that make education more accessible and affordable while improving learning outcomes. Founded as a textbook-rental company in 2005, the publicly held education company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and employs team members throughout the nation and the world. Chegg professionals work remotely, in its corporate office, and in locations across the U.S. and abroad.
Named one of Glassdoor's Best Places to Work, Chegg has posted flexible job opportunities in education & training, customer service, operations, computer & IT, administrative, and many other fields. The company's values-driven culture entails authentic communication, dreaming big, integrity, teamwork, and transparency. Flexible Chegg jobs offered in the past include part-time and full-time positions with freelance, temporary, and remote work arrangements, including short-term and long-term assignments. Moreover, the company's full-time, remote job opportunities have previously been offered to candidates nationwide, with some positions targeted at applicants in specific regions, states, and cities.
Chegg's mission is to disrupt the education industry and transform the way millions of students learn, offering services in six core areas: books, study, tutors, test prep, internships, and scholarships. Tools and features of the company's student-hub services include college admissions, career searches, Chegg Search, Chegg Study, and Chegg Tutoring. Ultimately, Chegg aims to help students who are told to "play by yesterday's rules" persevere as "today's student" by providing them with tools that enable "a smarter way to student."
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California
Website: https://www.chegg.com/
Job Title
Instructional Designer job at Chegg
Chegg
Job Description
Remote Work Level: 100% Remote
Location: US National
Job Type: Freelance, Temporary
Job Schedule: Part-Time
Career Level: Experienced
Travel Required: No specification
Education Level: Professional Certification
Categories: Education & Training, Writing, Editing
locations: United States Remote
time type: Part time
job requisition id: R4468Job Description
The Team: Learning Experience
The Learning Experience team at Chegg Skills leads and implements our learning strategy across all services and products. Collaborating with Product Managers, UX Designers, Instructional Designers, Learning Scientists, and Data Engineers, we aim to help students achieve their learning goals in an engaging and productive way. We focus on student outcomes, work well in cross-functional teams, adhere to learning-specific KPIs, take action quickly, and apply strong business acumen in Chegg’s fast-paced environment.
Job Description
The Instructional Designer will be responsible for quality assurance of lessons created by third-party vendors, ensuring that all content meets our high learning standards. This role involves reviewing content delivered by vendors and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), analyzing data, defining and running research, and iterating content and curricula for skills training across Chegg Skills' portfolio of courses.
Our programs use a proprietary model designed specifically to help working adults learn and practice new skills that they can apply in their current roles and everyday lives. The programs created will address the core needs of learners who wish to upskill or transition into new career paths.
The Instructional Designer must be knowledgeable of the best practices in adult learning and bring experience developing content and assessments that meet pre-defined learning objectives. They will stay up to date on industry-recognized credentials and skills to prepare students to test for certifications or job outcomes. They will then use this set of findings to inspire informed development of our programs for a designated area and measure the efficacy of the content they design at delivering improved student outcomes. '
This is a 5-month contract. Each Instructional Designer will be responsible for one program’s development start-to-finish. Programs are approximately 12 modules in length and require ~10 hours per week. Most Instructional Designers set aside time between 9am-1pm ET Mon, Tues, & Thurs for meetings and follow-ups.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Review curricular content, includingvideos, infographics, written text, live lesson plans, capstones, assessmentsagainst criteria evaluation checklists.
Provide feedbackto vendors within 1 business day. Feedback must be clear, comprehensive, and well documented to be actionable for vendors and others.
Must be usually able to meet live (virtually) within 1 business day if needing to discuss and fine tune edits live with vendor contacts.
Conduct surveys, tests, and competitive analyses to ensure program content and outcomes meet the need of our learners.
Report out program build quality updates to Group Instructional Designer for input/approval at key points of the build journey
Maintain and improve instructional materials for an assigned program or programs, drawing on existing metrics like pacing, skills attainment, and mastery.
Test updated curricular components with users as it is being developed to ensure outcomes.
Design for a diverse group of student personas - our students have varied education, skills, work backgrounds, and demands on their time: we must build solutions that solve for each group in equitable and personalized way.
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Qualifications, Education and Competencies
Basic Requirements
2+ years working in a curriculum development, learning design, learning engineering, or instructional design role
Successful experience on at least 5projects designing curriculum for an online education platform
Excellent writing and editing skills
Experience working directly with SMEs and other content developers
Understanding and application of adult learning best practices
Ability to contextualize skills and tools taught in the program to specific real-world application
Comfortable using backward design to create and iterate content as needed
Self-motivated, organized, reliable, flexible, deadline-oriented, with a keen attention to detail and ability to complete multiple tasks in a timely fashion
Effective at communicating effectively asynchronously
Comfort using AI platforms like ChatGPT to enhance workflows
Ability to adapt and pivot quickly and practice a learning mindset
Preferred Requirements
Experience authoring content in Rise 360
Experience working with third party learning vendor and with working across time zones and locales
Why do we exist?
Students are working harder than ever before to stabilize their future. Our recent research study called State of the Student shows that nearly 3 out of 4 students are working to support themselves through college and 1 in 3 students feel pressure to spend more than they can afford. We founded our business on provided affordable textbook rental options to address these issues. Since then, we’ve expanded our offerings to supplement many facets of higher educational learning through Chegg Study, Chegg Math, Chegg Writing, Chegg Internships, Thinkful Online Learning, and more to support students beyond their college experience. These offerings lower financial concerns for students by modernizing their learning experience. We exist so students everywhere have a smarter, faster, more affordable way to student.
How to Apply
APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION MUST BE ONLINE
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Deadline: 19th December 2024
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