Curriculum Support Specialist (Virtual)
Job details
Description
Over 20 years ago, Stride was founded to provide personalized learning — powered by technology. We reached students where they were in their own journeys. We knocked down their barriers to great education. And we gave every learner equal opportunity to succeed — however they defined success. Stride innovated the learning experience with online and blended learning that prepared them for their lives ahead.
Stride is a community of passionate leaders. Whether teachers, engineers, curriculum writers, or financial managers — whatever your expertise or role, we all work to empower futures through learning. And changing the trajectory of learning itself is one of our greatest missions. Join us in developing more effective ways to learn and helping learners build the skills and confidence they need to make their way forward in life.
The Curriculum Support Specialist will provide support for curriculum architects, audio/video engineers, and visual designers to create efficient workflows within and across Stride’s large-scale online course production. This is an ideal opportunity to develop your educational technology skills with a leader in online education.
Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Support video and audio production.
- Ensure that online lessons are accessible for all students.
- Use spreadsheet-based data to manage storyboard elements and course assets.
- Run scripts to automate course production tasks.
- Train and oversee work completed by vendor partners.
- Complete quality assurance checks on online lessons and make fixes when needed.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and
- One (1) year of experience in a related field OR
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
Certificates and Licenses: None required.
Other Required Qualifications:
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to understand how various industry-standard and proprietary tools work together across the curriculum-authoring ecosystem to output the desired end-product
- Creativity and critical thinking to execute operational efficiencies and to find economies of scale
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to the business, managers, and technical staff
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.); Web proficiency.
- Ability to clear required background check
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with large-scale course production
- Interest in instructional design, data architecture, and/or curriculum-production operations.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states, D.C.
Compensation & Benefits:
Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
We anticipate this position will pay between $23.04 to $38.69 per hour. The upper end of this range is not likely to be offered, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)