College Faculty, Subject Matter Experts

Summary

Join StraighterLine, a leading provider of affordable online courses, as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to help (re)develop high-quality college-level course content for 2025. You will collaborate with a team, innovating curriculum, course assessment, assignment development, and student interaction. Several courses across various disciplines are available for revision. This is a 1099 contract position offering hourly pay. While not a path to full-time employment, successful SMEs may have the opportunity to become contract faculty graders. Apply specifying the course(s) you wish to be considered for.

Requirements

• Hold a Master’s degree or higher in the course discipline
• Possess teaching experience in the course discipline
• Have experience in curriculum design & development for college-level courses
• Demonstrate patience with deadline-driven projects that may warrant fast turnaround and iterative development
• Be able to work effectively both collaboratively and independently, throughout all phases of a project
• Possess excellent organizational skills, a detail-oriented mindset, and the ability to scaffold project work within multiple (and sometimes competing) deadlines
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to disseminate course-related information to a wide range of professional audiences (academic and non-academic) and across multiple departments
• Be familiar with the Google Suite (Drive, Docs, Sheets)

Responsibilities

• Assist the Academics team with the (re)development of high-quality, evidence-based, and engaging content across the college-level course catalog for 2025
• Engage with the team and innovate with multiple creative components related to curriculum and course assessment & design
• Develop assignments and create intentional student interactions/pulse points

Preferred Qualifications

• Be familiar with online learning theories, andragogy/pedagogy, Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction, and promising practices related to building engaging and interactive asynchronous learning experiences
• Be familiar with learning management systems (LMS)
• Possess flexibility to pivot, if/when a project changes according to design iterations
• Have evidence-based instructional design (ID) skills
• Have college-level and online teaching experience

Benefits

• Hourly pay at the rate of $35.00 an hour
• Potential opportunity to become a 1099 contract faculty grader in the course, once launched