ELA Curriculum 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)

• Identify persistent ELA learning gaps through analysis of student performance metrics, platform analytics, assessment outcomes, writing submissions, reading comprehension responses, and student artifacts.
• Deploy AI tools and agentic workflows to reconstruct reading activities, writing frameworks, instructional explanations, vocabulary modules, grammar exercises, scaffolds, and remediation strategies.
• Strengthen ELA assessments by revising test items, composing writing prompts, crafting distractors, developing rubrics, producing exemplars, clarifying answer rationales, and enhancing supporting materials.
• Verify AI-produced or AI-modified content for instructional clarity, academic rigor, text alignment, grade-appropriateness, learning impact, and consistency with Alpha's learning science framework.
• Leverage learner evidence from MAP, SAT, AP, platform analytics, and internal evaluations to determine which materials warrant updating, replacement, or complete redesign.

• Producing standalone worksheets, lesson plans, or test preparation resources disconnected from learner performance evidence.
• Facilitating a traditional classroom, manually grading essay submissions, or overseeing school administrative functions.
• Developing education software products. Your focus will be on enhancing the learning experience, not steering a software development timeline.
• Limiting your work to gap identification. You will be responsible for redesigning curriculum, scaffolds, assessments, and interventions that address the gaps you uncover.
• Conducting high-level education strategy from a remote perspective. This work is hands-on, domain-specific, and evaluated through student mastery outcomes.

Drive quantifiable ELA mastery gains by systematically refining reading, writing, language, assessment, scaffolding, and intervention content informed by student learning evidence.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in English, Literature, Linguistics, Writing, Reading Education, English Education, Instructional Design, Cognitive Science, or a closely related field.
• 3+ years of experience in ELA instruction, literacy curriculum development, assessment development, educational content creation, or learning design.
• Demonstrated K-12 ELA expertise, including the ability to evaluate reading comprehension, writing quality, language accuracy, text complexity, sequencing, and grade-level appropriateness.
• Practical knowledge of learning science or instructional design principles, such as mastery learning, direct instruction, scaffolding, cognitive load, and retrieval practice.
• Experience using AI tools to improve educational work, including LLMs, AI-assisted content generation, no-code workflows, agentic AI tools, or coding/API-based tools.
• Ability to use student learning data and student work to identify ELA gaps and improve curriculum, assessments, scaffolds, or interventions.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex ELA concepts clearly to non-specialists.

• Direct LLM API experience for content generation, data analysis, adaptive learning, or assessment improvement.
• Experience with edtech, adaptive learning platforms, literacy assessment, or AI-supported academic design.
• Experience building an online audience or public knowledge base around literacy, writing, education, or AI.