Career Development Platform Curriculum Manager

Career Development Platform Curriculum Manager

What does world-class career coaching look like? If you're a career development professional with a clear eye for what quality career coaching means and an interest in being part of a high-growth AI nonprofit, we're looking for you! CareerVillage.org, an award-winning global tech nonprofit, is at a pivotal growth stage. We’re expanding our service offerings and are seeking a mission-driven, full-time Content/Curriculum Manager with deep expertise in career development. If you’re passionate about helping underrepresented people navigate their career paths and have a background as a career coach, counselor, or advisor, we’d love to hear from you!

About CareerVillage.org

CareerVillage.org is dedicated to democratizing access to career information and advice for underrepresented people. As our Content/Curriculum Manager, you’ll drive the development of activities, content, and educator resources for our AI Career Coach, Coach. 

What you’ll do

Please note: The title and level of this role are flexible depending on each candidate. 

• Manage and define activity content strategy: Develop and drive a cohesive content strategy that aligns with CareerVillage.org’s mission, ensuring all activities support learner career readiness growth, address key career development topics, and stay relevant to the evolving needs of our users.
• Design career development activities: Lead the creation of structured, step-by-step guides and resources to help learners navigate key career development milestones. You’ll define learning objectives, set criteria for success, and ensure activity quality. 
• Collaborate across teams: Partner with Product, Engineering, Partner Success, and other teams to bring activities to life, ensuring they align with the platform’s mission and goals.
• Lead a team of contractor subject matter experts: Manage a team of career counseling and content experts who provide guidance and feedback to ensure all activities are crafted to the highest standards and support learner outcomes effectively.
• Prompt engineering: Develop prompts that instruct Coach step by step on how to guide educators and learners to achieve a learning objective (note - you don’t need any technical expertise here, and you can absolutely learn this).
• Lead testing and iteration: Oversee a collaborative testing and review process to ensure all activities meet our standards for accuracy, completeness, and impact and iterate based on feedback.
• Manager career development resources: Lead the curation and management of the resources we use to contribute to our platform. 
• Champion career development excellence: Bring expert knowledge of career advising to guide content strategy, ensuring that all activities are transformative and accessible for learners from diverse backgrounds.

What you bring

• 3+ years experience as a career advisor, coach, or in a related field coaching people through career exploration, career planning, and job searching, ideally with a diverse group of beneficiaries
• Career Development or Career Coaching Certification (i.e., CPCC, BCC, GCDF, NCDA certifications, etc.)
• Experience working in a very high-growth, fast-paced, rapidly-changing work environment (i.e., a company or nonprofit that doubled its size multiple years in a row, and you loved it)
• Demonstrated experience in creating step-by-step guides, instructional materials, or other structured learning content.
• Familiarity with established career development theories, skills assessment, and competency-building techniques.
• Ability to articulate curriculum concepts clearly and collaborate effectively across teams.
• Ability to manage and refine multiple curriculum projects simultaneously, with a focus on quality and learner outcomes

About you

We know that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. The ideal candidate will have many of the following:

• You are mission-driven and committed to developing transformational social impact technology
• Experience working with learners from underserved communities or interest in education and social impact
• Ability to manage a collaborative peer review process with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring activities meet the highest standards
• Experience or interest in using Generative AI as a consumer and with learners
• A flexible, iterative approach to developing curriculum, with the patience to test and refine content based on feedback
• Comfort working across teams and bringing structure and clarity to complex content projects
  

What we offer

• An opportunity to improve real lives, solve hard problems, and make an impact on the world
• A chance to see the impact of your work on millions of people
• A chance to work with like-minded people who are working together on something ambitious and purposeful
• A fantastic and supportive organizational culture
• Starting salary of $95,000-115,000
• 401K matching
• $1,500 Professional Development budget
• Very generous vacation policy

Location (please note eligibility in specific locations)

We are a remote-first organization and can hire for this role from the following locations in the USA: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington DC, and West Virginia. Hybrid Optional in NYC. CareerVillage.org has team members worldwide, with our HQ in Palo Alto, CA.

To apply

To apply, please submit your resume and in a few sentences, share why you're interested in CareerVillage. Please expect a minimum of 3 rounds in the interview process (initial phone screening, possible skills assessment and typically two interview rounds). 

Please note

CareerVillage is an equal opportunity organization that celebrates diversity (for more information about our approach, check out our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Guidelines). Diversity includes race, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, size, religion, sexual orientation, parental status, socioeconomic background, and many other parts of an individual’s identity. We are a fair choice employer: qualified applicants with a history of arrest or conviction are welcome to apply and will be considered for this role. Each team member’s perspective is integral to our success, and fostering an inclusive environment is everyone’s responsibility. At this time, we can only consider applicants with authorization to work in the United States on a permanent, full-time basis; unfortunately, we cannot provide visa sponsorship.