Seasonal Curriculum Designer - Grades PreK-5

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Description

• About the Company: What if K-12 education were designed to help all students develop lives of meaning and purpose? Wayfinder was founded at the Stanford d.school to answer this question. Our goal is to double our impact each year for the coming years. Our vision is to become the preeminent SEL curriculum company in the world — leading the global movement of purpose, meaning, and belonging-based education worldwide. • What We Value: You’ll be joining a team of incredibly motivated and dedicated staff members committed to living our organization's values. We work collaboratively across teams, and we feel and act like a purpose-driven organization. To the best of our abilities, each person’s role aligns with their own sense of purpose, which feeds into Wayfinder’s larger sense of purpose. • The Role: Wayfinder is looking for a motivated Seasonal Curriculum Designer to help us revise existing curricula and create engaging additions to our content. The candidate may have experience teaching any grade(s) between PreK and 5th grade. It is a full-time remote position (40 hours per week). This seasonal role will begin in November 2024 and continue through April 2025. • Responsibilities include: CURRICULUM REVISION: Integrate customer feedback from the product and customer success teams into existing lessons and activities. Support efforts to prototype curriculum and conduct product research as necessary. Collaborate with the product team to develop and expand our range of physical teaching aids. Contribute to the development and refinement of assessment tools. Support the design and engineering teams to optimize a school’s experience with our app. • CURRICULUM CREATION: Write comprehensive lessons and activities, including teacher guides, slide decks, workbook pages, and any other supplemental materials to support lessons. Collaborate with others to create visuals, videos, and other media that support the curriculum. Proofread curriculum and upload curriculum on Wayfinder’s app.

Requirements

• Extensive experience teaching any grade(s) between PreK and 5th grade and the ability to speak to strong relationship-building with students. • Extensive experience writing developmentally appropriate curriculum that builds social-emotional competencies and future-ready skills • Familiarity and comfort with methods of assessing social-emotional learning • Experience designing print and digital curricula for students. Comfort working with designers and engineers is a plus. • Diverse Experience: Experience designing for diverse groups of people (i.e. students from different socioeconomic backgrounds, cultures, geographies, etc.) • Welcomes Feedback: Ability to welcome and appreciate direct feedback and collaboration • Flexible: Comfortable pivoting quickly to meet the needs of our school partners • Works Well With Others: a skilled collaborator and communicator comfortable working with other curriculum designers and experts across the product team • Self-Motivated: Consistent and relentless self-starter who takes initiative while knowing when to ask for support and direction; this position will need to onboard quickly and efficiently in order to start working as soon as possible • Organized: You are going to be working across multiple products; an extremely high level of organization is essential • Attention to Detail: Extremely attentive to detail and nuance in curriculum design • Bonus: Comfort writing curriculum in Spanish and translating curriculum from English to Spanish • Bonus: Experience developing Tier 2 and Tier 3 content/ experience teaching students with disabilities

Benefits

• Salary Range: $60,000 to $90,000 on an annual basis. • Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world. • Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision policies. • Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events, annual retreat, and celebrations. • Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, kind people committed to making a difference! • Flexible culture: We are results-focused. We don’t work at the office every day. • ...And much more! Lots of other perks make this company an incredible place to work.