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Academic Designer

• Writes and revises guidelines, provides exemplars, drafts partial responses for RFPs and customer inquiries, and creates general plans for art, prototypes, and other content.

• Communicates with, trains, and supports vendors; serves as a point-of-contact for cross-functional teams; collaborates with existing authors; and uses a strong internal network to complete work tasks efficiently.

• Consistently meets deadlines across multiple components, grade levels, and deliverables, working independently with review at critical points while supporting team members and offering structured, constructive feedback.

• Identifies and communicates risks related to assignments, proposes mitigation strategies with guidance, troubleshoots complex digital challenges, reviews user-testing results, participates in experience testing, and evaluates or improves technology tools, processes, and efficiencies.

• Works on problems of diverse scope using evaluation, judgment, and interpretation; brings potential solutions for complex problems; understands purpose, audience, and product context; and helps conceptualize small pieces of projects.

• Builds new content in authoring systems with proficiency, authors accessibly using correct structure, contributes to scope and sequence, and creates materials aligned with pedagogical best practices under senior guidance.

• Reads and summarizes academic research, applies best practices in pedagogy, demonstrates expert knowledge of writing and editorial procedures (including tone by grade, paragraph development, fact-checking, Lexiles, text leveling, and developmental decodability), and develops professional expertise that guides process modification.

• Skillfully presents to internal audiences, adapts communication style to different groups, begins building an external network, and provides peer review and mentorship to more junior team members.

What you need to be considered:   

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in elementary education or other relevant focus
• 3 or more years of elementary classroom experience strongly preferred
• Experience writing and editing instructional materials for use in social studies classrooms strongly preferred
• Experience working with digital curriculum development, digital authoring tools, and content management systems preferred

Here’s what we offer: