Instructional Designer

$100,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($50 USD/hour)

• Diagnose high-impact social studies learning gaps using student performance data, platform data, assessment results, and student work.
• Use AI tools, LLMs, no-code workflows, and agentic AI workflows to redesign curriculum, explanations, models, practice sequences, scaffolds, and interventions.
• Improve questions, prompts, distractors, answer explanations, rubrics, and supporting content so assessments measure mastery, reasoning, and misconceptions rather than recall alone.
• Check AI-generated or AI-modified materials for factual accuracy, chronological accuracy, rigor, clarity, grade-level fit, and alignment with Alpha’s learning science standards.
• Iterate on curriculum and assessment improvements based on student learning evidence, content review, and implementation feedback.

• Running a traditional curriculum desk where success means lesson completion, textbook coverage, or polished-looking materials.
• Building educational software products; your focus is improving the learning content, assessments, scaffolds, and interventions students use.
• Stopping at analysis; you will be responsible for fixing the learning gaps you diagnose.
• Making curriculum decisions from habit or intuition alone; your changes will be grounded in student data and evidence from student work.
• Doing broad academic strategy detached from execution; this is hands-on redesign work.

Accelerate social studies mastery by using AI and student learning evidence to improve curriculum, assessments, scaffolding, and interventions.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Social Studies, Social Science Education, History, Political Science, Geography, Economics, Civics, Cognitive Science, Instructional Design, or a closely related field.
• 3+ years of experience in social studies instruction, curriculum development, assessment development, educational content creation, or learning design.
• Demonstrated K-12 social studies expertise, including historical accuracy, chronology, civics, geography, economics, conceptual sequencing, common misconceptions, and grade-level fit.
• Practical knowledge of learning science or instructional design principles, such as mastery learning, direct instruction, scaffolding, cognitive load, or retrieval practice.
• Experience using AI tools to improve education work, such as LLMs, AI-assisted content generation, no-code workflows, agentic AI tools, or coding/API-based tools.
• Ability to use student learning data, assessment results, and student work to improve curriculum, assessments, scaffolds, or interventions.
• Clear written communication skills, especially when explaining complex social studies concepts to students or other education stakeholders.

• Direct experience using LLM APIs for content generation, data analysis, or adaptive learning work in social studies.
• Experience sharing education, curriculum, learning science, or AI insights through an online community such as X/Twitter, LinkedIn, a newsletter, or a professional knowledge base.