Financial Literacy Curriculum Designer

Summary

Join Wayfinder, a leading SEL curriculum company, as a Curriculum Designer to create engaging financial literacy activities for grades 6-12. This fully remote contract position, starting February 2025 and lasting through April 2025, offers a flat rate of $10,000. You will collaborate with a team to develop comprehensive activities, integrate customer feedback, and create supporting media. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience teaching financial literacy, curriculum design, and a commitment to diverse learning. Wayfinder values diversity and inclusion, and strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups.

Requirements

• Extensive experience teaching financial literacy to students in grades 6 through 12
• Deep subject matter expertise in financial literacy, including key topics like budgeting, credit, taxes, banking, and paying for college
• Experience designing print and digital curricula for students
• Diverse Experience: Experience designing for diverse groups of people (i.e. students from different socioeconomic backgrounds, cultures, geographies, etc.)
• Welcomes Feedback: Ability to welcome and appreciate direct feedback and collaboration
• Flexible: Comfortable pivoting quickly to meet the needs of our school partners
• Works Well With Others: a skilled collaborator and communicator comfortable working with other curriculum designers and experts across the product team
• Self-Motivated: Consistent and relentless self-starter who takes initiative while knowing when to ask for support and direction; this position will need to onboard quickly and efficiently in order to start working as soon as possible
• Organized: You are going to be working across multiple products; an extremely high level of organization is essential
• Attention to Detail: Extremely attentive to detail and nuance in curriculum design

Responsibilities

• Create comprehensive activities, including teacher guides, slide decks, and any other supplemental materials to support their implementation
• Review and integrate customer feedback from existing financial literacy content
• Collaborate with Wayfinder teammates to create visuals, videos, and other media that support the curriculum
• Proofread curriculum and upload curriculum on Wayfinder’s app

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfort writing curriculum in Spanish and translating curriculum from English to Spanish
• Experience developing Tier 2 and Tier 3 content/ experience teaching students with disabilities

Benefits

• Flat rate of $10,000
• Remote work
• Health insurance coverage
• A monthly stipend
• Office buildout stipend
• A retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays and paid time off