What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Curriculum and Instruction position at Pioneer Academics?
Organization: Pioneer Academics
Position: Manager - Curriculum and Instruction
Location: Remote
Compensation: Commensurate with Experience
Organization Description: Pioneer Academics is a growing global organization that offers transformative co-curricular educational programming to students from around the world. Based in the Philadelphia region, Pioneer has employees working in multiple countries in roles ranging from business development to instructional design. Culture in this team is prioritized and celebrated and key aspects of that culture include integrity, accountability, and the keen ability to solve AND seek problems to spark innovation.
Mission of the Position:
The Manager - Curriculum and Instruction will report to the Director of Academic Research & Development. The mission of the role is to develop curriculum and instructional materials for the Pioneer Research Program, the Global Problem Solving Institute (GPSI) and other initiatives. The Manager - Curriculum and Instruction accomplishes this through hands-on implementation under the oversight of the Director of Academic R&D and proactive coordination with other functional departments on which the program relies. The Manager - Curriculum and Instruction also acts as a communications hub, incorporating feedback from functional heads and keeping functional heads and leadership aware of the program performance, upcoming collaborative needs, and potential concerns and mitigation strategies.
Key Criteria/Requirements: This role requires resourcefulness, flexibility, ingenuity, and a strong sense of drive toward and ownership of results. The Manager - Curriculum and Instruction must demonstrate a creative, solution-oriented approach through the ability to anticipate or identify issues, assess their scope and impact, and propose and implement meaningful, timely solutions. Service orientation is integral to being successful in this role. The Manager - Curriculum and Instruction should deeply understand the educational goals and design parameters, and conduct their work showcasing the desire and ability to service the student, faculty, and other key stakeholders with these objectives in mind. This role will focus on continuous improvement through the ability to understand the current state – the what, the why, and the how. The Manager - Curriculum and Instruction will proactively identify areas for improvement and ideate, propose, implement, and evaluate those improvements in an iterative cycle. A successful candidate in this role will accomplish this with a learner’s mindset – the desire and ability to gain new knowledge and skills quickly.
Key Criteria:
-
- Bachelor’s degree from a top 100 college or university required; Advanced degree highly preferred
- A minimum of five years total of curriculum development, instructional design, and/or teaching experience at the secondary and/or university level is required.
- At least two years of experience working for an organization other than a high school, university, or non-profit space is required.
- Demonstrated understanding of best practices in curriculum and instruction, instructional design, and online learning
- Experience supervising instructors, including, but not limited to, reviewing and providing feedback on their curriculum and instruction.
- Experience working with academically gifted and talented students is strongly preferred.
- Experience with online or hybrid course development and delivery.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Google Suite, as well as with instructional technology tools, including learning-management systems, Web-conferencing platforms, and collaboration tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to ensure clear, informative, and professional communication with a range of stakeholders, including students, parents, secondary educators, university faculty, and colleagues
- Service orientation – the desire and ability to center user – student, faculty, and other key stakeholder – experience in decision-making
- A learner’s mindset – the desire and ability to gain new knowledge and skills quickly.
- Adaptability
- Focus on continuous improvement - the ability to understand the current state – the what, the why, and the how – and to proactively identify areas for improvement and to ideate, propose, implement, and evaluate those improvements in an iterative cycle.
- A creative, solution-oriented approach – the ability to anticipate or identify issues, assess their scope and impact, and propose and implement meaningful, timely solutions.
