Manager of Curriculum & Evaluation, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia

The National Constitution Center is creating innovative and interactive Social Studies educational online content for high school, middle school students, and adult learners. We are seeking an experienced educational curriculum writer to partner with us to create engaging learning content. This position will support the development of curriculum, assessment, and professional development for the NCC, which includes new program development and revisions, as well as training teachers across the country on these tools and programs.

This position is open to remote work.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Work with NCC Education and Content teams to create curriculum design standards and methodologies based on innovative pedagogies and best practices that result in high quality teaching and learning experiences.
• Provide expertise on effective assessment methodology, and direct measures of student learning by designing instruments, sampling student work, analyzing data, and reporting, with a goal of continuous improvement.
• Work with the Chief Learning Officer to establish standards for assessment and rubrics for curricular and co‐curricular activities and program reviews
• Support new course development and revision project plans. Assist with development and implementation of viable new programs and support materials.
• Work with the Education team to create and maintain templates for program, course, and assessment development.
• Coordinate with all involved parties to ensure accountability, utilizing project management best practices.
• Facilitate, coordinate, and implement results of assessments and program reviews into actionable project plans for curriculum and course delivery revisions.
• Write lesson overviews, lesson studies, study guides, and assessments focused on high school social studies content, while incorporating the standards and objectives within the scope and sequence into the content.
• Interpret feedback from internal project leads in order to implement revisions within the scope of the assignment.
• Develop interactive activities to complement and support NCC resources and videos.
• Understand the nuances of the NCC’s Constitutional Course content and modify the tools for development into online course formatting.
• State Course adoption project – review all curricular materials for alignment and adoption by state guidelines
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Please note that the Center may change specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization

Qualifications:

• Five or more years of professional experience and leadership in education, specifically in the areas of online programs, course development and American history
• Instructional design experience
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree, masters preferred
• Excellent communication, project management, conceptual, organizational and
• analytical skills
• Recent experience writing online middle school social studies educational content is required
• Experience writing social studies content for many states is preferred, but not required
• Must understand a scope and sequence and be able to meet the standards
• Ability to write independently while taking direction, and to proactively ask questions to confirm understanding of requests
• Efficiency and the ability to turn around writing assignments within 3‐4 days, and within 2 days at the revision stage
• Sample assignments will be assigned to qualified candidates
• Conducting education professional development programs and teacher trainer experience a plus

The National Constitution Center actively seeks and welcomes people of color, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, persons with disabilities, and people at intersections of these identities, to apply.

Click here to apply. Please note, only applications submitted with a resume and cover letter will be considered.