Remote Seasonal Curriculum Designer, Grades 6-12

Summary

Join Wayfinder's team as a Seasonal Curriculum Designer to help revise existing curricula and create engaging additions to our 6-12th grade content. This part-time remote position will begin in January 2025 and continue through May 2025.

Requirements

• Extensive experience teaching any grade(s) between 6th and 12th grade and the ability to speak to strong relationship-building with diverse students
• Extensive experience writing developmentally appropriate curriculum that builds social-emotional competencies and future-ready skills
• Familiarity and comfort with methods of assessing social-emotional learning
• Experience designing print and digital curricula for students. Comfort working with designers and engineers is a plus
• 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

• Support the integration of customer feedback from the product and customer success teams into existing 6-12 lessons and activities
• Support efforts to prototype curriculum and conduct product research as necessary
• Support the design and engineering teams to optimize a school’s experience with our app
• Write 60 comprehensive, culturally-responsive activities, including teacher guides, slide decks, and any other supplemental materials to support implementation
• Collaborate with others to create visuals, videos, and other media that support the activities
• Proofread curriculum and upload curriculum on Wayfinder’s app

Benefits

• Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world
• Medical, dental, and vision policies
• Regularly scheduled events, annual retreat, and celebrations