Remote Seasonal Curriculum Designer, Grades PreK-5

Summary

Join our team as a Seasonal Curriculum Designer to help us revise existing curricula and create engaging additions to our content. This full-time remote position will begin in November 2024 and continue through April 2025.

Requirements

• Extensive experience teaching any grade(s) between PreK and 5th grade and the ability to speak to strong relationship-building with 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

• Integrate customer feedback from the product and customer success teams into existing lessons and activities
• Support efforts to prototype curriculum and conduct product research as necessary
• Collaborate with the product team to develop and expand our range of physical teaching aids
• Contribute to the development and refinement of assessment tools
• Support the design and engineering teams to optimize a school’s experience with our app
• Write comprehensive lessons and activities, including teacher guides, slide decks, workbook pages, and any other supplemental materials to support lessons
• Collaborate with others to create visuals, videos, and other media that support the curriculum
• 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