DVM Instructional Designer & Curriculum Manager (Hybrid)

The Opportunity

We're seeking a collaborative and highly self-directed Instructional Designer & Curriculum Manager to lead our clinical curriculum redesign initiatives and support instructional design efforts within a life sciences-focused academic environment. This role sits at the intersection of instructional design, assessment strategy, and curriculum management.

A key priority will be contributing to and helping manage complex curriculum initiatives, ensuring consistency in learner experience, assessment design, and instructional quality across programs.

This position is slated to begin in October 2026, and is ideal for someone who thrives in a trust-based environment with autonomy, accountability, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

About the Department

The Educational Support Services unit (ESS) supports all aspects of the educational mission at the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) to prepare veterinarians and biomedical scientists to serve society in critical roles in clinical and diagnostic veterinary medicine, biomedical research, public health, and public policy. Our team is a dynamic group with skills in event and media production, software development, medical illustration and animation, instructional design, and classroom support. We collaborate within and beyond the team to provide support to faculty and staff in their continued pursuit of excellent teaching, produce world-class continuing education experiences via online courses, conferences, and hands-on laboratories, and create the tools to enable innovative evidence-based teaching and learning.

What We Need

• Bachelor's degree with at least 3 years of relevant experience including building faculty alliances and working within a higher education team.

Individual must possess:

• Instructional design expertise, anchored in the student-centered learning philosophy using evidence-based approaches

• Ability to build alliances and work independently to complete all projects and tasks on time with minimal supervision while effectively utilizing the skills of the larger team.

• Familiarity with Biological Sciences or related field

Creativity and curiosity are a core value of our team. We seek someone who:

• Thinks creatively and performs with flexibility

• Communicates effectively with clients, subject matter experts, and other team members both verbally and in writing

• Is comfortable working with sensitive and anatomical/ surgical or other veterinary content.

• Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members.

You will be competitive for this role if you have:

• Expertise in instructional design and assessment strategy, applying learner-centered and evidence-based approaches

• Proven ability to build high-quality curriculum that aligns learning objectives, content, and assessments

• A strong track record of owning and delivering curriculum projects independently, with minimal supervision

• Experience managing multiple projects, timelines, and deadlines with consistency and reliability

• Demonstrated success working in collaborative, cross-functional teams-you actively partner and do not silo your work

• The ability to prioritize effectively and execute autonomously in a trust-based environment with limited oversight

If you have all those things, great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have, but it's ok if you don't.

• A background in the life sciences is strongly preferred.

• Master of Education or related field

• Experience implementing curricular changes in higher education, nursing, veterinary medicine or medical field.

• Expertise in assessment development

Rewards and Benefits

• This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Employees typically perform this role remotely 3 days per week and on-campus 2 days per week. The university reserves the right to modify, suspend, revoke or terminate the hybrid work arrangement at any time.

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• Our leave provisions include health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1. To offer greater flexibility for observing faiths and traditions we also offer two additional floating holidays. Learn more about our generous leave provisions: Holiday and Accrued Time Off | Working at Cornell

• Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program. Learn more about our extensive educational benefits: Education Benefits | Working at Cornell

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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