Program Developer III
Nightingale Education Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Utah • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $80,000 - $87,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Translate institutional goals, accreditation standards, and labor market needs into program outcomes, concepts, and competency frameworks.
- Lead KSAB (knowledge, skills, abilities, behaviors) and concept identification and mapping sessions with faculty, subject matter experts, and employer advisory boards.
- Design integrated hierarchies of concepts and competencies, including program outcomes, key concepts, domains, competencies, sub-competencies, and performance indicators.
- Ensure all statements, both conceptual and competency, are clear, measurable, inclusive, and aligned with accreditor and regulatory expectations such as seat time, RSI, and credit hour requirements.
- Develop and maintain program blueprints that guide downstream curriculum, concept-based instruction, and competency-based assessment development.
- Apply program-level backward design to ensure evidence, instruction, and outcomes align coherently across both conceptual and competency frameworks.
- Work closely with the Director, Learning Content and Assessment Development to ensure program blueprints, concept frameworks, and competency structures are accurately translated into course design, instructional content, and assessment strategies.
- Collaborate to align upstream program mapping with downstream development timelines, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Facilitate collaborative sessions with subject matter experts, faculty, and industry partners to validate both conceptual structures and competencies against employer needs, accreditation standards, and learner expectations.
- Review and revise existing programs to ensure ongoing alignment with updated accreditation standards, regulatory changes, labor market data, and institutional goals.
- Identify misalignments or gaps in existing program maps, assessments, and instructional sequences, and lead improvement efforts in collaboration with faculty and academic leadership.
- Anticipate design and delivery challenges to ensure frameworks and competencies translate effectively into courses, assessments, and clinical or practicum experiences.
- Maintain the integrity of program maps through development, accreditation, and continuous improvement cycles.
- Provide thought leadership in competency-based assessment (CBA) and concept-based education, advocating for inclusive, equitable program structures that meet the needs of diverse learners.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in nursing, education, instructional design, learning sciences, or a related field.
- Minimum of five years of experience in nursing curriculum development, program design, accreditation, or assessment, with demonstrated expertise in both concept-based frameworks and competency-based assessment (CBA).
- Proven experience in program blueprinting, mapping, and reviewing and improving existing educational programs.
Benefits
- Nightingale College will pay for travel and lodging accommodations for New Collaborator Orientation (NCO) in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
curriculum developmentprogram designcompetency-based assessmentconcept-based educationprogram blueprintingprogram mappingperformance indicatorsbackward designinstructional content developmentassessment strategies
Soft skills
collaborationleadershipcommunicationfacilitationcritical thinkingproblem-solvingorganizational skillsadaptabilitythought leadershipinclusive advocacy
Certifications
Master’s degreeaccreditation standards expertise