What are the responsibilities and job description for the Curriculum Designer, Alpha - $100,000/year USD position at Crossover?
Crossover is the world's #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting this role for our client, Alpha. Have you got what it takes?
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a full-time, in-person employee role located at our Austin, Texas campus.
Imagine a world where 8-year-olds confidently pitch business ideas to venture capitalists, and 10-year-olds deliver TED-style talks that leave adults in awe. At Alpha Schools, we're not just imagining it - we're making it happen. And we need your creative genius to take it to the next level.
In this role, you'll harness cutting-edge AI to craft mind-blowing workshops, pilot your creations with real students, and collaborate with a team of education revolutionaries. You'll blend elements of curriculum development and instructional design, focusing on practical life skills rather than academic subjects. With greater autonomy and emphasis on innovation, you'll leverage technology and data-driven iteration to continuously refine and improve your designs.
If you're ready to shape the future of education and empower K-8 students with essential life skills, apply now and join Alpha in reimagining learning!
What You Will Be Doing
Create a highly engaging and rigorous life skills curriculum, enabling kids to achieve tasks that seem impossible for their age and ensuring student and parent satisfaction.
Basic Requirements
Want to build better schools? Join the thriving community of Alpha. Alpha is a network of K-12 schools in Texas committed to redefining the way kids learn. Change starts with our three promises to students:
Working with Crossover
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
What to expect next:
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a full-time, in-person employee role located at our Austin, Texas campus.
Imagine a world where 8-year-olds confidently pitch business ideas to venture capitalists, and 10-year-olds deliver TED-style talks that leave adults in awe. At Alpha Schools, we're not just imagining it - we're making it happen. And we need your creative genius to take it to the next level.
In this role, you'll harness cutting-edge AI to craft mind-blowing workshops, pilot your creations with real students, and collaborate with a team of education revolutionaries. You'll blend elements of curriculum development and instructional design, focusing on practical life skills rather than academic subjects. With greater autonomy and emphasis on innovation, you'll leverage technology and data-driven iteration to continuously refine and improve your designs.
If you're ready to shape the future of education and empower K-8 students with essential life skills, apply now and join Alpha in reimagining learning!
What You Will Be Doing
- Developing a comprehensive, engaging life skills curriculum for K-8 students, focusing on areas such as public speaking, storytelling, entrepreneurship, and financial acumen
- Designing objective and reliable assessment systems, utilizing standardized testing methodologies, to evaluate baseline skills, progress, and mastery in non-traditional educational areas
- Piloting new workshop designs with real students, conducting on-campus observations, gathering student insights, and collecting parent feedback to continuously refine and improve workshop designs
- Building your personal expertise through research, best practices, and trend analysis (RBHT), synthesizing diverse information to create innovative insights and approaches
- Collaborating with team members and facilitators to ensure workshops exceed quality expectations and achieve learning objectives
- Creating activities that prioritize entertainment over skill development
- Designing programs that underestimate children's learning potential
- Producing educational content that doesn't translate to real-world applications
- Developing passive, lecture-based learning materials
- Evaluating academic knowledge rather than practical skills
Create a highly engaging and rigorous life skills curriculum, enabling kids to achieve tasks that seem impossible for their age and ensuring student and parent satisfaction.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work in-person at Alpha's Austin campus
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- At least 1 year of experience creating educational activities, workshops, or trainings in any field
- Experience observing and gathering qualitative data and feedback from students/attendees
- Proficiency using Gen AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.) for independent project execution
- Legal right to work in the US without visa sponsorship
Want to build better schools? Join the thriving community of Alpha. Alpha is a network of K-12 schools in Texas committed to redefining the way kids learn. Change starts with our three promises to students:
- Students love school.
- Students learn two times faster than in a traditional school.
- Students learn life skills.
Working with Crossover
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover. The compensation level for this role is $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
What to expect next:
- You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
- Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.
- First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
- Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as “Not Spam” since you will receive other emails as well.
- Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form - by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
- If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/password-recovery if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.
Salary : $100,000
