Instructional Designer, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

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 an in-person role located at our Austin, TX 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

• Using Generative AI tools to develop engaging, high-impact life skills workshops focused on public speaking/storytelling and entrepreneurship/financial acumen
• Designing objective and reliable grading systems and assessment tools to evaluate baseline skills, progress, and mastery
• Leveraging on-campus observations, student insights, and parent feedback to develop, pilot, and refine life skills activities
• Collaborating with team members and facilitators to ensure workshops exceed expectations in quality
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• 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
  
  

Instructional Designer Key Responsibilities

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

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 1 year of experience creating educational activities, workshops, or trainings in any field
• Experience in observing and gathering qualitative data and feedback from students/attendees
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and manage self-directed projects
• Strong written communication skills
• A personal track record of setting and achieving ambitious personal goals that go beyond traditional academics
• Ability to quickly adapt to and implement our unique approach to teaching life skills
• Proficiency in Gen AI tools for independent project execution
• Legal right to work in the US without visa sponsorship
• Willing to work in-person at Alpha's Austin campus
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

These traits distinguish our top performers, but they're not deal-breakers. If you meet the core requirements and are eager to learn, we encourage you to apply. Your potential matters more than a perfect match.

• Advanced expertise in curriculum design for life skills education
• Experience with data-driven iteration in educational contexts
• Track record of implementing innovative educational projects
• Demonstrated success in designing child-centric learning experiences
  
  

About Alpha

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.
  
  

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

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.
  
  

Important! If you do not receive an email from us:

• 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.
  
  

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5096-US-Chicago-InstructionalD.006