Sr Academic Designer

Overview

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If you’re smart, curious, and passionate about education - join us as we open doors. You’ll work in an enriching, collaborative environment where we create opportunities for learners and celebrate successes. Why? Because learning changes everything.

We have an opening for an experienced, innovative, strategic Senior Academic Designer, Literacy/Grades K-5. This is a remote opportunity with open availability to meet once a week in office.

Senior Academic Designers are content and curriculum experts. They assemble high-quality content based on specific product requirements for programs and understanding the solution design. They collaborate with the Academic Design Directors, Academic Design Managers, and Product Managers to help develop the solution design (both conceptualization and implementation). Depending on project needs, Senior Academic Designers are asked to take on specific project assignments, working with a small team of Academic Designers throughout the various stages of product development.

Your contribution to the team includes:

• Plan and develop content (including learning objectives, scope/sequence, tables of contents, lessons, videos, and teacher resources) for teacher and student materials-including print, digital, and media projects
• Develop and finalize prototypes, scope and sequence, project proposals, and project scope documentation, as needed
• Train, mentor, and provide feedback to more junior Academic Designers on guidelines and expectations around content development, documentation, and planning
• Act as the point of contact between a vendor, internal engineering teams, contractors, and Academic Design teams with some decision-making authority, including ensuring timeliness and quality of work
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Product Design, Production and other cross-functional groups to establish workflows and maintain communication about project schedules/status
• Demonstrate strong understanding of elementary (Grades K-5) Reading/Language Arts and English Language Development pedagogical issues
• Produce and guide more junior team members to produce accurate, error-free, high-quality products that meet curriculum standards (including CCSS and other state standards), project scope, and market requirements and that display appropriate content, reading level, grammar, and style
• Stay up to date on emerging educational/curriculum trends, educational technology, and research within field and adjacent to field
  
  

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in elementary education, literacy, linguistics, or related field.
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in literacy curriculum development and educational publishing with a focus on Grades K-5
• Teaching experience an advantage
• Ability to create and visualize content for various delivery formats and classroom settings
• Highly organized, goal-oriented, and collaborative with ability to mentor others and provide guidance, direction, and leadership
• Ability to understand concerns, needs, and issues raised by junior team members and create novel solutions, including cross-functional problem solving
• Proactively identifies risks and develops contingency plans
• Understanding of how research, pedagogy, and best practice applies to product design and apply broad views of perspectives in the discipline
• Attention to detail and commitment to accuracy, quality, and on-time delivery
• Knowledge of appropriate industry and subject-area content development practices, content standards (such as CCSS, B.E.S.T., and TEKS), and academic and pedagogical trends, with the ability to drive innovation in teams and products
• Displays and acts with initiative, integrity, and professionalism
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, which include a thorough command of the English language, spelling, writing, and grammar and a strong attention to detail
• Effective organizational and time management skills; productive, efficient work habits and the ability to prioritize, multitask, and exhibit flexibility
• Diverse computer skills, expert-level in MS Office suite, proficiency with Adobe Acrobat, Smartsheet, and K4/InCopy markup
• Experience building accessible content in digital authoring systems is a plus
  
  

The average base salary range for this position is $62,000 - $75,000 annually, however, base salary pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits depending on the position offered.

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