[Hiring] Senior Instructional Designer II @Committee for Children

Role Description

Are you looking for purpose-driven work where you can make a positive impact on communities around the world? If so, then Committee for Children is an amazing place to grow your career as a Senior Instructional Designer II. We're a social enterprise dedicated to advancing the well-being of children through the development of essential human skills. As a Senior Instructional Designer II at CFC, you'll lead the design and development of high-quality digital human skills learning programs for K–12 students and educators. This role owns end-to-end content development, from defining instructional approaches to delivering student and educator-facing experiences that drive meaningful classroom impact.

Working cross-functionally with research, product, and design partners, this role translates learning science and user needs into cohesive, engaging, and effective learning solutions. The Senior Instructional Designer II serves as a program-level leader, guiding content direction, ensuring alignment and quality across experiences, and contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team environment.

Our team is collaborative, creative, and passionate about our work. You'll have an opportunity to make an impact every day and have a say in the way we use client success to transform the lives of children.

What you'll do when you join us:

• Applies a learning-first mindset by identifying educator and student needs, defining instructional problems, and designing for scale, reuse, and maintainability across products.
• Lead and guide work as a program expert and leader by establishing ID team processes, reviewing education criteria, directing relevant workstreams, and providing constructive feedback on a regular basis.
• Lead content development and writing of curriculum, including drafting, revising, and finalizing student-facing and educator-facing instructional materials.
• Design and develop implementation materials and professional learning experiences to support educators in classroom delivery, including guides, tools, and embedded supports that drive fidelity of implementation.
• Collaborate with researchers and subject matter experts to conceptualize and develop digital learning curriculum that extends into the physical classroom and related program supports.
• Lead backward planning using Understanding by Design or similar planning methodologies.
• Ensure instructional quality, alignment, and coherence across K-12 programming, accountable for final sign-off of the educational criteria. Collaborate with visual designers, media production team, and others to design and deliver aligned, on-time assets.
• Analyze data and synthesize feedback from a variety of sources to develop and implement action plans for improvement.
• Manage, coach, and mentor less experienced instructional designers, independent contractors, and content experts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing digital educational programs, learning experiences, educational applications, or educational games or simulations, in the K-12 marketplace.
• Developing curriculum using Understanding by Design learning framework, culturally responsive teaching practices, and conditions for learning as identified by PERTS.
• Demonstrated experience in writing and developing high-quality instructional content for both students and educators, including implementation supports and professional learning materials.
• Experience designing curriculum and instructional materials for K–5 learners, including early childhood education contexts.
• 5+ years of experience working as an educator in a traditional school setting.
• Experience working with or supporting K–5 and/or early childhood classrooms strongly preferred.
• Master's Degree in Learning Sciences, Educational Technology, Instructional Design or related field of study.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, or mentor others while managing multiple workstreams.
• Advanced ability to apply current and innovative learning and instructional design theories and techniques to analyze, design, develop, implement, evaluate, and modify learning programs.
• Experience collaborating with researchers and using qualitative/quantitative data to iterate curriculum.
• Experience designing and facilitating professional development for educators, including PLC-aligned learning experiences and resources.
• Advanced ability to manage ambiguity, identify creative solutions, respond to changing work or product needs, and ideate ways to surpass constraints.
• Software Applications: Knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Miro, Slack, Asana, and Jira. Ability to investigate and learn new digital technologies related to work or design.

Requirements

• This position is remote; employees are eligible to work remotely in any of the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, MA, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA.
• Travel Requirements: This role involves occasional travel to the Seattle office, typically between 1 to 4 times per year depending on the position.
• The hiring range for this position is $110,000-122,000 annually. The pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

Benefits

• We cover 100% of your premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage and 50% for your dependent's medical and dental premiums.
• Retirement plan + company match up to 3%.
• A flexible work subsidy: $100 per month that you can use on things like phone and internet costs, office supplies, or even commuting costs.
• 16 paid holidays (including winter break and 1 floating holiday), 3 weeks' vacation in your first year, and separate sick leave accrual.
• Other great benefits include: monthly contribution to childcare and/or dependent expenses, FSA account, parental leave, sabbatical leave, employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, growth and development opportunities, disability and life insurance.