American College of Education is looking to solve the problem of creating high-quality, engaging online courses for adult learners by hiring a Curriculum Developer who can design curricula and provide current, career-relevant, research-based content.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in education, curriculum development, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in higher education or K–12 education
- 3+ years of experience in curriculum design and development
- Quality Matters Rubric Application certification (or required to complete within first 4 months of employment)
- Experience in academic writing, proofreading, and copyediting across disciplines
- Experience with a learning management systems (LMS)
Responsibilities
- Functions as a curriculum and instruction subject matter expert who advocates for the most current curriculum design theories/methodologies and ACE strategic goals required to deliver high-quality, engaging online courses for adult learners.
- Collaborates with SMEs and eLearning Content Designers to develop curriculum documents and components required to produce a course, including course blueprints, scripts for course videos, and other learning activity and resource documents.
- Supports department leaders, faculty members, and SMEs as they gather thorough, relevant, evidence-based, and aligned content required to develop courses by facilitating online training, written and oral communication, and feedback loops.
- Uses a SME’s content to develop course materials that are aligned, evidence-based, current, factual, career-relevant, clear, and consistent.
- Collaborates with other teams within the Curriculum Development and Production department to infuse innovation into courses and assure the quality ACE course components using established guidelines and checklists.
- Evaluates the effectiveness of the curriculum and makes revisions based on SME feedback, data analyses, and changes in the college, program, and/or field.
- Conducts academic research to fact-check SME-provided content and identify content gaps.
Other
- Demonstrates self-reliance by meeting/exceeding workflow needs.
- Demonstrates positive attitude and motivation, concern for students, teamwork, and excellent time management skills.
- Must support and embrace the College’s B Corp mission to improve the people and communities we serve through our civic engagement initiatives.
- Must have exceptional communication, organization, and time management skills.
- At this time we cannot consider candidates residing in Alaska, Washington D.C., Massachusetts, South Dakota, or Alabama.
