Reports to: Program Manager or Director
Department: K-12
Location: Work from Home (US or Canada)
LearningMate is looking to expand our talent pool of Subject Matter and Domain Experts in the areas of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Culturally Responsive Teaching; and Social Emotional Learning. We are dedicated to designing equitable and inclusive digital curricula and programming for the modern learner.
Primary Purpose:
In this role, you will collaboratively work to lift instruction designed to deepen learner understanding and engagement in grades K-12 online courses for a public, virtual school. You will bring a critical eye to all instructional materials and assessments by fact-checking, examining for bias, and ensuring student and teacher-facing content are inclusive and respectful of diverse perspectives. You will work with a team that seeks to support all learners by writing engaging content that supports all learners.
Responsibilities:
- Review content utilizing a variety of DEI review tools; writing guidelines, checklists, scorecards and rubrics
- Review content for missing information, misinformation, and bias
- Review content and assess if it represents a diverse range of cultures, races, genders, sexual orientations, and abilities
- Review content and assess if it uses inclusive language and avoids stereotypes and microaggressions
- Review content to ensure it takes into account the cultural, social, and historical context of the topics covered
- Create recommendations to improve existing lessons and assessments based on DEI practices
- Prepare client-facing presentations
- Interact with LearningMate and client stakeholders
Qualifications:
- Experience crafting high-quality instructional materials and assessments for grades K-12 in the US and or Canada
- Experience teaching and cultivating a welcoming and inclusive learning environment for elementary or secondary learners
- Experience in one or more key areas of DEI practice;
- Access and Equity
- Diversity, inclusion, and Representation
- Bias and Stereotypes
- Cultural Relevance and Responsiveness
- Plain Language
- Social Emotional Learning
- Familiarity with different taxonomies and standards alignment
- Experience in content editing of quality curriculums
- Experience preferred in writing in an LMS and managing complex spreadsheet
- Ability to multitask effectively and work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
SOW – Scope: To Be Determined based on project needs
- Attend kickoff and training meetings for the project
- Identify recommendations for edits to course/lessons in alignment with DEI writing and style guidelines as specified by the client
- Identify recommendations for edits in various platforms and in documents (e.g., Google documents, Google Sheets) and update the project management tool (e.g., Smartsheet) for schedule adherence
- Adhere to the review schedule as specified by the project team
- Apply subject-matter expertise to further support the learner and to increase engagement and the effectiveness of the lesson
- Ensure that the following key design elements are present:
- Alignment to objectives
- Appropriate content flow for the audience
- Appropriate instructional strategies for the audience
- Appropriate and varied use of multimedia to support instruction
- Appropriate and varied use of the learning platform’s components to support instruction
- Verify all content and assessment components are factual, up-to-date, and accurate
- Save a PDF copy of the edited lesson to your computer if needed for reference
- Consult with the project team on issues that occur during course development
If you have expertise in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Culturally Responsive Teaching; and/or Social Emotional Learning, in the K12, Higher-Ed, Human Resources, or Workforce Development space, please share more about yourself by completing our Talent Pool form. After joining our Talent Pool, a LearningMate team member will be in contact when your area of expertise aligns with a current or upcoming project or initiative.
Please send in your resume at mitali.gupta@learningmate.com and enter [INSERT JOB TITLE] – Your Name as the Subject Line.
LearningMate is an equal employment opportunity employer.