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The Instructional Strategy & Design Specialist will leverage instructional design expertise and project management skills to create high-quality instructional resources for grades K-5, collaborating across teams to meet customer needs.

Responsibilities: Manage complex projects, design instructional resources, develop prototypes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance educational offerings.

Skills: Project management, curriculum design, communication, creative thinking, and stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications: Minimum 3 years in education with teaching or instructional design background; Bachelor’s degree required.

Location: Charlotte, NC, USA

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $70,000 - $90,000.

We are looking for a highly skilled Instructional Strategy and Design Specialist to support executing the strategy around the multi-faceted instructional value of our Discovery Education Experience product. This professional owns key initiatives that require the application of curriculum, instructional design expertise, and project management skills to deliver high-quality instructional resources for our educators and students in grades K-5. In this role, you will work collaboratively with team members across our product organization and other teams within the company, including product marketing and our K-12 sales organization, ensuring our instructional support offerings meet the needs of our customers.

Hiring Manager: Libby Galster

In This Role You Will:

Manage Complex and Dynamic Projects 

• Assist in designing and refining flexible models for instructional resources across multiple grade bands and subject areas that support customers’ needs within DE Experience
• Lead priority content projects that include evaluation of data and usage analytics, market research, and customer feedback
• Develop lesson/activity prototypes in DE’s Studio software, including content management of design files, and host review meetings to inform development

Curriculum Design 

• Develop lesson/activity prototypes in DE’s Studio software, including content management of design files, and host review meetings to inform development
• Perform analyses of instructional standards, curriculum and media to inform lesson/activity development and curation of content.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Respond and provide information related to trends and effective instructional practices in K-12 education
• Interacts with senior management, executives, and/or major customers which frequently involves negotiating matters of significance to the organization; reconciles multiple stakeholder views to drive business results
• Present to and collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g., research and analytics, marketing, design, etc.) to drive outcomes that support an integrated go-to-market plan

Core Competencies for Success:

• Project management
• Curriculum design, development and alignment 
• Excellent written and oral communication as well as strong interpersonal skill
• Ability to think creatively and to propose innovative and inclusive ways to look at problems using product data
• Ability to anticipate and articulate opportunities in educational technology and translate them into actionable concepts and strategies for enhancing Discovery Education product
• Manage complex projects, and drive strategic initiatives

Credentials and Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in education with a background in teaching, curriculum development, instructional design, professional development, educational consulting, or related role
• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree
• Experience in instructional design is highly desirable
• Ability to travel 5-10% as needed for team development, conferences, etc.
• Legal right to work in the United States