Center For Health Information And Analysis
PT Contract Instructional Designer, Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety
The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety - Boston, MA - Contracted
The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety is a dynamic state agency that plays a unique role in improving health care safety and quality in Massachusetts.
Named for a Boston Globe health columnist who died in 1994 from a preventable medical error, the Betsy Lehman Center (the Center) is supported by and shares space with the state’s Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA).
We are seeking a talented, experienced instructional designer to help us build a first-in-the-nation statewide health care safety curriculum that will serve as a foundational tool for educating the health care workers and leaders of today and the future.
Health care services are increasingly complex, and thousands of patients in Massachusetts and across the country experience preventable harm each day while receiving care. This curriculum will cultivate much-needed knowledge, principles, and vocabulary unique to health care safety for all who work in the field, from administrators at the front desk to members of the C-suite and trustees in the board room. You will design online coursework for the curriculum.
This new role is a part-time, contract position of approximately 15-30 hours/week with hourly flexibility, reporting to the Center’s Executive Director. The hourly rate will be $50 - $100/hour, commensurate with experience. The contractor will primarily work off-site, but occasional meetings in the Center’s office in Boston or elsewhere in the state may be required. The engagement will run for at least 6-months and there is opportunity for longer-term work.
As the Center’s Instructional Designer, you will:
- Develop a modular Health Care Safety 101A course: Use your drafting, storyboarding, user-testing, and revision skills to provide online learners with an approximately 60-minute course on health care safety basics that are applicable to all roles in any health care setting. We will provide curriculum content.
- Develop multiple modular Health Care Safety 101B courses: Building on and complementing Health Care Safety 101A, you will design courses to facilitate additional learning by individuals based on roles (board members, executive leaders, middle management, frontline clinical staff, frontline non-clinical staff). Courses for additional roles or specific settings may be added at a later date. We will provide curriculum content.
- Apply current best practices to curriculum presentation: Make strategic use of contemporary, engaging and interactive elements throughout, including assessments, knowledge checks and compelling visual elements. Courses will reflect best practices in engaging targeted audiences and meet accessibility requirements and the needs of diverse learners.
We are looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and has experience designing e-learning courses for adult learners. Specifically, we seek an instructional designer who is/has:
- Demonstrated success in instructional design work with an impact on users, with at least 6 years of relevant professional experience, including in the design, creation, and implementation of e-learning curricula and experience working with subject matter experts and curriculum designers
- A degree or other formal education in Instructional Design, Instructional Technology, Learning Design, Curriculum Development, or other relevant academic area
- Needed technical skills to work with current e-learning software development tools and content standards, such as SCORM and xAPI, and experience working with Learning Management Systems
- Experience working independently as well as part of a small team
In a cover letter, the candidate should provide links to samples of content development work and name their preferred e-learning design software.
This position will remain open until filled.
An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Females, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Commonwealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Research suggests that qualified women, Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (BIPOC) may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role.
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