Instructional Content Developer
Instructional Content Developer
Remote
All candidates must live in California.
Posted: 4/1/22
CCGI is looking for an instructional content developer to manage student lessons on CaliforniaColleges.edu. The contributor in this role will hold the working title of Senior Manager, CaliforniaColleges.edu Content.
The Senior Manager is a subject-matter expert in college and career planning with demonstrated experience writing instructional content for middle and/or high school students. In this role, you will develop new college and career lessons for 6th-12th grade students in California who use CaliforniaColleges.edu to plan for life after high school. You will maintain expertise in college, career, and financial aid policy and counseling trends, and you will manage the continual review and iteration of all CaliforniaColleges.edu lessons over time.
The ideal candidate is a strong writer with a keen interest in developing accurate, engaging content for an elearning or edtech platform. CaliforniaColleges.edu lessons are fully web-based and designed to be completed independently by students. You will work with staff in product management, user research, and user experience design to ensure a seamless student experience that makes full use of the platform’s college, career, and financial aid planning tools.
All staff who work for CCGI have a passion for promoting public education and advancing educational equity for California students.
What Will You Do?
- Develop web-based college and career planning lessons for CaliforniaColleges.edu.
- Manage review and iteration of all college, career, and financial aid lessons over time.
- Ensure that all lessons are optimized for student users, meaning that they:
- Meet intended learning objectives.
- Are developmentally appropriate for 6th-12th graders.
- Align with behavioral science best practices.
- Collaborate with staff in product management, UX research and design to incorporate lessons effectively into the CaliforniaColleges.edu student experience.
- Maintain expert knowledge of the education landscape in California, including policy developments and counseling trends, through research, webinars, or other professional development activities.
- Use survey data, analytics, or other evidence to support data-driven decisions that best meet student’s needs.
- Thought-partner with the content team on the development of supplemental content for students, parents, and educators.
- Provide quality assurance for all instructional content on CaliforniaColleges.edu by managing the development and implementation of protocols for tracking and maintenance.
- Supervise one member of the CaliforniaColleges.edu content team.
What Skills and Experience Do You Need?
- Relevant BA/BS, equivalent work experience, or a combination of both.
- Minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience in instructional content development, preferably for edtech or elearning tools for K-12 students.
- Demonstrated understanding of college, career, and financial aid planning for California students, typically obtained through experience in K-12 counseling, college access, or other educational services organizations.
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience as a supervisor or comparable coaching experience.
- Experience using technological tools for collaboration and project management, such as Salesforce, Google Suite, Zoom, Slack, or similar.
What Intangibles Do You Need?
- Ability to communicate complex information simply, and write with attention to accuracy, audience, and concision.
- Motivation to develop and maintain subject matter expertise and deep understanding of CaliforniaColleges.edu tools and resources.
- Drive to further CCGI’s mission of increasing educational access and equity in California.
- Confident decision-making skills and a collaborative spirit.
- Excellent professional judgment.
- Stellar organizational, project, and time-management skills, and meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks and advance work with minimal supervision.
- Flexibility when priorities shift or deadlines change, and resilience in the face of challenges.
- Ready to thrive in a work culture with the following characteristics: collaboration and learning, data-driven practices, direct feedback, documentation, due diligence and preparation, professionalism and kindness, self-reflection, strategic thinking, and vulnerability.
- Open and committed to using a nonviolent communication feedback model.
More about CCGI
The California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) works to ensure that all 6th-12th grade students in California have access to a systematic baseline of guidance and support as they plan, prepare, and pay for postsecondary education and training.
This baseline is provided by CaliforniaColleges.edu, which provides California students and educators with a wide range of college and career planning information and tools. The site also houses, audits, and transmits student data to help ensure more accurate and efficient decisions regarding admissions, financial aid, and course placement. CCGI provides technical assistance, support, and training to K-12 school districts in order to support students, counselors, and parents with the systematic use of CaliforniaColleges.edu, including its transcript-informed tools.
CCGI forms the core of the college planning and application tools in California’s newly-launched Cradle-to-Career System. Over the next few years, the Cradle-to-Career System will scale CCGI so that all California 6th-12th grade students can have free access to our transcript-informed tools.
CCGI is a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. At our core, we prioritize the needs of students above all else.
Everyone at CCGI works remotely. We are all located in various parts of California. We rarely meet in person. Instead, we make use of tools, such as ZOOM, Slack, and Salesforce, to communicate and document our work.
CCGI is housed at the Foundation for California Community Colleges but is an autonomous initiative with its own mission, goals, and leadership team.
The Foundation for California Community Colleges (Foundation) is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities (EEO) are available to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, genetic characteristics, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, political affiliation, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, the Foundation for California Community Colleges complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment.
The Foundation for California Community Colleges is committed to workplace policies and hiring practices that comply with federal, state, and local law. During the hiring process, the Foundation is interested in hiring qualified candidates who are eligible and authorized to work in the United States. However, at this time, the Foundation is not able to sponsor visas. As a result, the Foundation cannot hire applicants that currently, or in the future, require immigration sponsorship for work authorization (i.e., H1B or F1 Student Visa).