Lead Curriculum Developer

Full-Time | Remote; U.S.-based preferred but potentially open to locations with similar time zones | Salary Range within U.S.: $85,000-$105,000; International candidates salary to be determined based on location, experience, and local contracting norms.

About Technovation

Technovation is a global nonprofit that has spent 20 years building one of the largest technology entrepreneurship programs for young people, reaching 300,000+ participants across 100+ countries. Our project-based curriculum walks learners through real world problem-solving using AI and technology, and 76% of our alumni go on to pursue STEM degrees.

Our curriculum is the foundation of everything we do. It is how students around the world learn to identify problems in their own communities, prototype solutions with real technology, and present their work to judges and peers. We are looking for the next person to own that foundation and keep building on it.

About the Role

This is a chance to shape how hundreds of thousands of young people around the world learn to solve problems and build with technology. As our Lead Curriculum Developer, you will be the primary architect of our educational content. You will work on both high-level strategy as well as execution:

• 30% Content Strategy & Leadership: Define the multi-year learning roadmap. Define learning outcomes, align curriculum with our mission. Ensure our educational products meet community needs. Track and iterate on curriculum data/KPIs.
• 70% Instructional Design & Content Creation: Write lessons, design interactive learner experiences, develop facilitator guides, and build out our learning management system content.

The Lead Curriculum Developer will own our project-based learning curriculum across platforms, manage content in multiple languages, and collaborate with a lean team to continuously improve our content and keep our learning materials current, accurate, and accessible to students and educators in over 100 countries.

The right candidate has worked with classrooms of middle or high school students and taught coding, AI, or other technical material. You understand how to make abstract concepts concrete for a 13-year-old and have helped students move beyond comprehension and into application and deeper understanding. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator who can write clear instructional content, explain technical ideas to non-technical audiences, and collaborate across teams. You are creative about how to best help people learn and meet learners where they are. You have had experience teaching other adults as well along your journey.

You will shape rubrics, write and update lessons, manage translations, interface with the back end of our learning platform, support mentors and educators, and occasionally lead workshops or trainings. The lead curriculum developer will gather feedback from and work closely with individuals across the Technovation network, including colleagues, students, educators, and other leaders, and will always work to ensure the curriculum helps students prepare for an unknown future.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Keep a finger on the pulse of emerging tech and research in education, problem-solving, and entrepreneurship fields. Collaborate with your manager each season to update competition rubrics based on shifts in technology and other fields, and to design new systems for any pilot programs. Collect and analyze feedback and data from the populations accessing the curriculum to identify improvements.
• Curriculum Content Development and Maintenance: Write, update, and improve lessons on our learning platform (currently WordPress-based, goal of moving to Open EdX). Ensure content aligns with competition rubrics, grant deliverables, and new program directions. Create video tutorials and supplemental materials as needed. Work with the software development team on integration of and ongoing support of LMS embedded with Technovation platform.
• Translation Management: Work closely with the operations team to support the translation process across systems.
• Content Review: Review curricular and training materials for mentors, educators, and other pilot programs, including educator training content, proposals, and other program resources for accuracy, engagement, and alignment.
• Direct Support: Field curriculum and possibly technical submission support questions and inquiries that come from participants, mentors, educators, and other leaders. Explore ways to automate this support when possible.
• Workshops and Training. Lead and support occasional workshops and teacher trainings, both virtual and in-person.

Qualifications

• Experience teaching AI, computer science, or other technical subjects to secondary school students. Experience with making technical content accessible and engaging for young learners.
• Experience working with a diverse range of learners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to write clear lesson content, explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences, and collaborate effectively across a remote team and global audience.
• Creative approach to learning design. Innovator’s mindset of thinking beyond the standard lesson plan and looking for new ways to structure activities, scaffold complex topics, and keep learners engaged.
• Experience seeking data and iterating.
• Experience with content and learning management systems. Quickly becomes proficient in using new technical systems.
• Bonus: Background in project-based learning, real world problem solving education, entrepreneurship education, or STEM education
• Bonus: Experience training non-technical adults to deliver technical content
• Bonus: Fluent in another language

This is a full-time position. Our benefits include:

• 20 vacation days in addition to all federal holidays and sick time
• A paid organization wide week-long shutdown at the end of the year
• 100% cost coverage of medical, dental, and vision costs for employees and a portion of the cost for partners and dependents
• Life-insurance coverage
• 401k program with an organization match after two years
• Option to participate in FSA and DCA pre-tax programs
• Tenure bonus plan
• Remote work with core work hours and flexible scheduling

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity among its applicant pool as well as within our staff, Board, and partners. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.