Curriculum Designer

Curriculum Designer

Role Type: Contract, Part Time, Remote
4 Month Contract: March - June 2021 + track to Full Time position
Pay Rate: Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Priority Deadline: February 17, 2021(Rolling applications accepted)

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Who We Are

Unpacking is the leading online learning platform for social impact. We build culturally competent teams by equipping them with historical context, industry skills, and design strategies for data-backed behavior change.

Our Vision

We believe in a world where cultural competency & product inclusion are universal standards of business. To achieve this vision, we guide leaders of products, services, and education, to know themselves as futurist thinkers with the ability to re-imagine, innovate, and embrace a more equitable tomorrow despite a traumatic past and present.

Who We Need

Our ideal candidate is flexible, resourceful, and able to wear many hats in a fast-paced atmosphere on a small team. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills are non-negotiable. You are a trustworthy, mission-driven leader, who demonstrates accountability, responsibility, and humility as core character values and cultivate a sense of belonging for all peers through an unwavering commitment to equity. As a futurist thinker, you are excited about shaping the foundation of a growing company and the prospect of your contributions leaving a lasting legacy on both our organization and the world.

The Job

Our Curriculum Designers will be integral members of the Unpacking team. Working closely with the Director of Curriculum, you will co-develop instructional designs by applying your expertise in one or more of our core focus areas including Anti-racism, LGBTQ Rights, Gender Rights, Disability Rights, Climate Change or Product Inclusion. You will work diligently to deliver accessible and globally-relevant education on the world’s most pressing social issues. You will apply best practices in online learning, scaffolding, experiential design, constructivism, flipped classrooms, and facilitation that are both empathetic and culturally competent. As an enthusiastic educator with experience ranging across K-12, college, and adult learning, you will collaborate with fellow subject matter experts to ensure high performance impact that scales.

The Tasks

Curriculum and Assessment

Research: Apply data driven insights through literature, observations, evaluations, focus groups, interviews, and other research methodologies to inform the development of human centered curriculum, assessments, and facilitation practices.
Design: Apply best practices in instructional design and 21st Century Skills to architect experiential engagement in an online environment that incorporates scaffolding, constructivism, think-pair-share, social & emotional development, team building and flipped learning that is accessible for all learners.
Write: Develop replicable pedagogies and facilitator scripts that foster curiosity, critical thinking, self-reflection, and collaboration for subject content covering anti-racism, LGBTQ rights, gender rights, disability rights, climate change, product inclusion and more.*
Inform: Analyze, interpret, and apply key data insights from assessments to measure engagement, comprehension, belonging, growth, satisfaction, projections and more to make informed reports and recommendations on development for all stakeholders.
Facilitate: Model Unpacking’s standard of excellence in classroom management, teaching, engagement, empathy, synthesis, critical thinking, cultural competence, accessibility, call-in culture, norms-setting, and safety.

Keywords: strategic planning, curriculum development and design, data analysis and strategy, program and performance management, teacher training, educational leadership, community and stakeholder engagement, marketing and outreach, education policy and reform, social entrepreneurship, research and development, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging

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About You

• 5+ years of experience in curriculum design and instruction for youth and adult learners
• 3+ years of experience designing curriculum for learning management systems (LMS) and teaching in an online learning environment
• 3+ years of experience in experiential design with expertise in any of the following areas: gamification, team building, after-school programming, camp counseling, ropes course, organizational culture, or student affairs
• 3+ years of experience working on collaborative teams and executing strategic goals and deliverables that consistently meet efficiency, high quality, and timeliness
• 3+ years of experience co-constructing professional development training for organizational teams with a proven track record of impact, behavior change, and retention
• Demonstrated ability to work on cross-functional teams with empathy in mind and a standard of practice that acknowledges power and privilege, unique gifts in each individual, and a communication style that champions confidence and accountability
• Demonstrated track record working in social justice and human rights industries with expertise in any of the following social impact areas: Anti-racism, LGBTQ Rights, Gender Rights, Disability Rights, Climate Change, or Product Inclusion

Bonus

• Candidates with regional expertise in one or more of the following regions: *AMER - United States & Canada * EMEA - Europe, Middle East, Africa * APAC - Asia-Pacific, Australia * LATAM - Latin America
• 3+ years of experience in facilitation that is rooted in classroom management, teaching, engagement, empathy, synthesis, critical thinking, cultural competence, accessibility, call-in culture, norms-setting, and safety.
• Demonstrated experience thriving in an early stage startup with significant impact on the company’s strategic growth and scalability
• 3+ years of experience designing K-12 curriculum in accordance to state standards, Common Core Standards, and 21st Century Skills
• Proven knowledge of industry innovations, leading project management software and efficiency tools, along with a personal network of industry leading peers and advisors

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Diversity Commitment

We deeply value the power diverse thought, experience and perspective has on creative innovation within our organization. We strongly encourage applicants to apply who identify as Black, Indigenous, other people of color; women; people with disabilities; and/or queer. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, performance assessment, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Unpacking does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, immigration status, socioeconomic status, ancestry, age, size, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, familial status, veteran status, disability, AIDS/HIV status, medical condition, prior conviction, arrest history, traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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