i-Ready Content Developer
The Content Developer for i-Ready professional learning is charged with making sound content and creative decisions and offering solutions that will impact educator practice. In collaboration with the Senior Director of Educator Success and the i-Ready Content Manager, you’ll maintain a coherent scope and sequence for i-Ready professional learning offerings, define plans for future content development, and author content to support teachers, leaders, and coaches in implementing the program successfully. This position may also be called upon to assist others in the organization with special projects, including designing internal training. The role is collaborative and strategic yet highly task and detail oriented. Excellent writing skills are required.
The impact you’ll have:
- As Subject Matter Expert, you will research, write, and develop high-quality professional learning for on-site and online delivery that will impact educator practice
- Collaborate with Program Management, Product Development, Professional Development (PD) Specialists, and outside experts to conceptualize professional learning topics
- Research, write, and develop high-quality assessment and instruction professional learning content
- Review professional learning content authored by other team members
- Support PD Specialists in providing quality professional learning to educators in efforts to ensure successful program implementation and student impact
- Create implementation support resources as needed
- Deliver internal presentations as needed
What we’re looking for:
- 3–5 years developing on-site and online professional learning courses and support materials for K–8 educators
- Exceptional ability to conceptualize and execute content for a variety of media types and audiences
- Proven experience with presentation, workflow, and instructional design software (such as Zoom, Smartsheet, Workfront, Camtasia, Articulate, Adobe Acrobat)
- Understanding of pedagogy for both K–8 students and adult learners
- Proven experience working with technology-based assessment and instruction
- Ability to identify possible challenges and find solutions through thoughtful inquiry
- Experience managing multiple projects and tasks
- Receptive to feedback and iterating on work to ensure educators and students receive the best products possible
- Extraordinary organizational, verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
- High degree of flexibility and good humor
- Capacity to work remotely and maintain virtual team best practices
- Minimum of a BS/BA degree; MS/MA in Education preferred
- A Senior Content Developer title may be considered based on the following criteria:
- 5+ years conceptualizing and developing on-site and online professional learning courses and support materials for K–8 educators within an EdTech organization
- Vast experience using presentation, workflow, and instructional design software for professional learning purposes
- Prior school-based coaching experience
- Prior instructional design experience (including subject matter expertise) in the EdTech space
- Proven experience managing multiple projects and tasks independently
- MS/MA in Education