Curriculum Development Specialist
Curriculum Development Specialist
at HealthCorps
[Remote; within contiguous US]
Are you interested in serving your community and empowering the next generation of healthy leaders? HealthCorps and our mission to improve the lives of youth both mentally and physically provides you the opportunity to do just that.
Who We Are
We’re HealthCorps – a national non-profit organization committed to improving lives by addressing health inequities in communities through programming that includes innovative and engaging experiences for teens in education, leadership, and service learning. We empower teens by encouraging them to become change agents within their families, schools and neighborhoods. Our program is grounded in the understanding that limited access to health education can lead to a lifetime of social, emotional and physical challenges.
Where You Fit In
We’re looking for someone who can creatively infuse fun with facts and learning frameworks, to create health and wellness curriculum content for our ongoing programming needs. As the Curriculum Development Specialist, you’ll be the behind-the-scenes builder that sets our teen, school, community, and digital program implementation teams up for success by creating resources, trainings and tools to support healthy communities. This is for you if are amped up about the power of education and community action; enjoy taking ideas and making tangible products that are wrapped to completion with a well-placed bow; and if you understand that engaging teens in their health in a way that is science-backed, doesn’t have to be dull.
What You’ll Do
You’ll expand HealthCorps’ impact and program offerings by making health and wellness resources that teens and teachers in diverse communities can and will want to utilize. This includes updating, adapting, and creating new lessons, activities, social media posts, challenges and campaign toolkits. You will use culturally responsive learning and behavior change frameworks to structure resources, then collaborate with content experts and teen advisors to ensure accuracy and relevancy. You will additionally create trainings, how-to modules, and/or graphic visuals to demonstrate to users how to most effectively put what is created into play. You will work collaboratively with the HealthCorps team to ensure resources are accessible and inclusive to our program recipients and are being used with fidelity.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Create, Adapt, and Update Program Curriculum. Create curriculum products that are engaging, packaged in a format that is organized and aesthetically on brand, and that support knowledge and skill development and targeted behavior change outcomes. This includes sourcing evidence-based content and advising with content-expert partners, writing instructional material, designing creative activities, and formatting content layouts. It may also include recording and/or editing videos. Use-settings to include lessons and workshops, classroom and campus-wide activities, newsletters and flyers, wellness challenges, social media posts, and campaigns.
- Develop Trainings & Technical Assistance. Support the implementation team’s ability and desire to utilize resources to achieve maximal impact. This includes trainings on the content, use-cases, and appropriate modifications and adaptations.
- Monitor & Respond to User Feedback. Integrate user feedback and available use-analytics into curriculum development plans and processes. Present ideas to leadership on how we might consider respond to growing or pressing needs and acute events affecting communities we serve with resources that align with the HealthCorps’ mission.
- Manage Workflows. Manage applicable curriculum creation and publication processes from identification of need to dissemination of the final product in English and other key demographic languages (primarily Spanish).Work independently and with collaborators to meet deadlines.
- Commit to the HealthCorps Mission. You will prioritize health and wellness for yourself and communities who have limited health promoting opportunities and influences. Your spark to serve will leave a lasting, positive impact for teens.
Qualifications + Skillsets:
- Bachelor’s degree in education, health, or related fields [CHES certified a plus];
- 2+ years of relevant health education, curriculum development, health program development, or equivalent experience;
- Experience or passion for serving adolescents from diverse backgrounds;
- Ability to communicate effectively to both teen and adult audiences. Excellent formal and conversational writing for a broad range of platforms and strong and verbal presentation abilities. Can deploy relatable and creative communication strategies;
- Understanding or demonstrated interest in evidence-based learning and behavior change frameworks;
- Intermediate to expert level proficiency with digital design software, such as Canva or Adobe’s Creative Suite. [Proficiency in video editing and illustration applications a plus];
- Intermediate to expert level proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite of applications (including Word, PowerPoint and Outlook) [Proficiency in Google Suite of programs a plus];
- Ability to effectively and respectfully communicate, collaborate and connect with people with various backgrounds, identities, positions, and experiences;
- Experience working in and with racially, ethnically and socioeconomically marginalized communities;
- Commitment to raising one’s cultural consciousness and challenging oppressive practices on an interpersonal and institutional level;
- Experience balancing multiple tasks and priorities effectively in a fast-changing environment;
- Maintain a growth mindset, striving to improve professionally and personally;
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team, self-starter, organized;
- Open and willing to implement new and dynamic programs as we strive to improve and expand our impact;
- Flexibility to manage changing priorities and timelines;
- Bilingual a plus.
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods working on a computer.