Senior Instructional Designer / Course Creator

Teach Safe is seeking an Instructional Designer / Course Creator to develop engaging, effective online driver education courses. This role combines instructional design, curriculum writing, regulatory research, multimedia development, and hands-on course building.

The Instructional Designer / Course Creator will take a course from requirements through launch: interpreting state curriculum requirements, mapping those requirements to course content, designing an effective instructional sequence, writing student-facing material, developing assessments and activities, participating in video content, and building the finished course within the Teach Safe platform.

This position is ideal for someone who is both a strong writer and a creative, organized course builder—someone who can turn complex requirements into clear instruction that keeps students engaged and helps them learn.

Key Responsibilities

Course & Curriculum Development

• Research and interpret driver education curriculum requirements, statutes, administrative rules, and state-provided standards.
• Create curriculum maps connecting regulatory requirements and learning objectives to specific course content.
• Identify required topics, instructional time, assessments, activities, and other course components.
• Design the overall course structure and sequence to support effective learning and appropriate scaffolding.
• Determine how concepts should be introduced, reinforced, practiced, and assessed throughout a course.
• Ensure completed courses address all applicable curriculum and regulatory requirements.

Content Writing & Instructional Design

• Write clear, accurate, age-appropriate student-facing instructional content.
• Translate technical topics, traffic laws, and regulatory language into understandable and engaging instruction.
• Develop learning objectives, lesson content, examples, scenarios, knowledge checks, quizzes, activities, and assessments.
• Apply instructional design principles to improve comprehension, retention, and learner engagement.
• Review and revise existing course content for clarity, accuracy, instructional effectiveness, and consistency.
• Incorporate feedback from subject matter experts, compliance staff, students, and other stakeholders.

Multimedia & Video Development

• Determine when video, graphics, animation, scenarios, or other multimedia will improve instruction.
• Develop scripts and concepts for instructional videos.
• Work with other team members or vendors to develop and incorporate multimedia assets.
• Ensure multimedia supports the learning objective rather than simply adding visual interest.

Course Building & Technology

• Build and configure courses within the Teach Safe online learning platform.
• Create lessons, pages, activities, assessments, navigation, and other course components.
• Upload and appropriately incorporate text, images, audio, video, and interactive content.
• Configure course settings and instructional flow to meet both educational and regulatory requirements.
• Test completed courses from the student's perspective and troubleshoot content, navigation, formatting, and usability issues.
• Become highly proficient with Teach Safe's course-building tools and adapt to new platform functionality as it is introduced.

Quality & Continuous Improvement

• Proofread and quality-check course content before release.
• Verify that curriculum requirements are fully represented in the finished course.
• Maintain organized documentation of curriculum requirements, content mapping, sources, and course revisions.
• Update courses as laws, regulations, curriculum standards, or instructional best practices change.
• Use student performance, feedback, and other available data to identify opportunities to improve course effectiveness.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design, Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Technology, Communications, English, or a related field.
• Exceptional written communication skills with the ability to explain complex information clearly and concisely.
• Strong understanding of instructional design, learning objectives, sequencing, scaffolding, assessment, and learner engagement.
• Ability to research detailed requirements and systematically translate them into course content.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• High level of comfort with technology and ability to quickly learn new software platforms.
• Comfortable presenting information and appearing on camera in instructional videos.
• Ability to manage a course-development project from initial requirements through completed implementation.
• Ability to accept feedback and collaboratively revise work.

Preferred

• Experience developing online or asynchronous courses.
• Experience with learning management systems, course-authoring platforms, or other educational technology.
• Experience developing educational video or multimedia content.
• Familiarity with accessibility principles for online learning, including alt text, captions, audio/read-aloud content, and accessible content design.
• Experience working with regulated curriculum or translating statutes, administrative rules, standards, or other formal requirements into educational content.
• Knowledge of driver education, traffic safety, or transportation safety is helpful but not required.

Skills We're Looking For

The successful candidate will be:

• A strong writer who can make complicated subjects understandable.
• An instructional thinker who understands that good courses are more than collections of information.
• A researcher who can work through detailed requirements and identify exactly what a course must teach.
• A course architect who can organize information into a logical, effective learning progression.
• A creative communicator who can determine whether a concept is best taught through text, video, graphics, scenarios, or interactive activities.
• Technically capable and comfortable learning and working directly in course-building software.
• Detail-oriented enough to ensure regulatory requirements aren't missed.
• Comfortable on camera and able to communicate naturally and professionally in instructional video content.
• Adaptable and collaborative, with the ability to incorporate feedback from multiple stakeholders.

What Success Looks Like

A successful Instructional Designer / Course Creator can receive a new driver education course assignment and independently move it from regulatory requirements → curriculum map → instructional structure → written and multimedia content → completed course build → quality review and launch.

The end result is a course that is compliant, accurate, easy to understand, engaging for students, and instructionally sound.

Pay: From $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person