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Curriculum Developer
(Temporary)

Temporary—6 month position; Full-Time; Remote (Based in the US)

Salary range: $6,000-$7,500 per month plus benefits

About Technovation

Technovation is the world’s largest technology entrepreneurship program for girls.

Our mission is to empower girls, especially those from underrepresented communities, to develop problem-solving skills, self-efficacy, and financial capacity, critical to them becoming leaders and changemakers in their communities. In the Technovation Girls program, teams of girls are supported by mentors to develop app based solutions to problems in their communities. Over the past 18 years, we have engaged 350,000 participants across 160+ countries.

With the help of The AI Forward Alliance and our global network of partners we are on a journey to make a significant impact in increasing the number of women in positions of influence, power, and leadership – especially in STEM and AI. Our goal is to empower and engage 25 million girls around the world over the coming years.

About this Opportunity

Technovation is seeking a 6 month full time Curriculum Developer based anywhere in the US. This position has a heavy focus on AI and standards alignment to support our work across multiple geographies.

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Align Technovation curriculum to various state, national and international standards. Technovation has a comprehensive 12 week curriculum that includes ideation, coding, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship elements. The curriculum must be explicitly aligned with US national education standards and standards from select US states and countries.
  • Collaborate with our partners to update and integrate technology ethics lessons into our curriculum.
  • Contribute to updates to current curriculum, specifically in the area of artificial intelligence.
  • Collaborate with curriculum developer and program team on various curriculum-related tasks.

Ideal Candidate: 

The ideal candidate is passionate about Technovation’s mission to empower girls to create technology solutions for problems they identify in their community. We believe that with the right learning opportunities and support, everyone has the ability to learn and become technology creators.

We are looking for a candidate who:

  • Has experience designing curriculum, developing and/or aligning curriculum standards in an educational setting
  • Has experience teaching coding and STEM concepts to K-12 students
  • Works effectively with diverse people, organizations, communities, and cultures
  • Is a strong writer and communicator
  • Loves learning about new trends and tools especially those applicable to tech and 21st century skills education
  • Has the ability to conceptualize and build content for a variety of media types and audiences
  • Is comfortable working with content experts
  • Is detail-oriented and dependable
  • Has the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a small and virtual team

We Offer:

Our benefits include:

  • 20 vacation days per calendar year (pro-rated for shorter term) in addition to all federal holidays and sick time
  • A paid organization wide week-long shutdown at the end of December
  • 100% cost coverage of medical, dental, and vision costs for employees and a portion of the cost for partners and dependents
  • Life-insurance coverage
  • 401k program with an organization match after two years
  • Option to participate in FSA and DCA pre-tax programs
  • Tenure bonus plan
  • Remote work with core work hours and flexible scheduling

Our work environment also prioritizes these features that align with our core values:

  • Ownership: We strive to clearly outline responsibilities on projects. You will make high-level decisions about the work you do and how you will execute it. We focus on including everyone’s voices, not micromanaging.
  • Integrity: We emphasize transparency, honesty, and data in all our work and decision making. We review projects regularly, admit when we need to make changes, and use data to confirm when it’s time to try something new.
  • Equity: We have core hours but start and end times are flexible in order to support what’s going on in your life, and you’re welcome to go to appointments and run errands as needed. We promote principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion and prioritize input from the team.
  • Curiosity:We’re a small team and much of our work includes cross-team collaboration. That collaboration succeeds due to communication, organization, and curiosity as we encourage each other to learn and grow.
  • Innovation: You’ll contribute directly to an organization that provides technology education to students from underserved areas in 100+ countries, all while helping to address the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields.

To Apply:

Please apply at this link. Be ready to upload:

  1. Your resume
  2. A link to your LinkedIn profile
  3. Your cover letter
  4. A link to your screening task response. Take no more than 2 hours to complete this screening task.
    • Context: Technovation teams (1-5 girls) submit a mobile or web app that they have ideated, designed, and built that solves a problem in their community. Participants, often with the help of a mentor, follow our 12-unit curriculum in the areas of ideation, coding & AI, entrepreneurship, and pitching. Here are the submission guidelines. Technovation would like to strengthen its ethics content to help teams consider in greater depth the repercussions of their solution.
    • The Task: Choose one card from the set of RRI prompt cards to focus on, using the Responsible Research and Innovation framework (AREA). Create 2-3 slides to guide Technovation students on how they might think about their project in relation to the concepts on the card.