Alignment Specialist - English/Language Arts

Job Description

Summary: The Curriculum Alignment Specialist is a contractor who specializes in English/Language Arts with a focus on early elementary and literacy. The Contractor carefully reviews Stride online and print curricula materials, with an emphasis on English/Language Arts for grades K-12, along with assessment blueprints and practice items, to produce documentation that shows how well the Stride courses address national and state standards.

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Create quality documentation that shows how the Stride English/Language Arts curricula align against state and national standards and exam blueprints for public distribution;
• Create state standard and test blueprint matrices to inform curriculum development and revision;
• Collaborate with the content specialists to make high-level instructional recommendations for additional content coverage on alignments to ensure 80% or better coverage;
• Review existing curriculum alignments to confirm documented coverage is to the most current version of standards;
• Write and deliver summaries of the alignment data, pointing out the most important findings from the alignment documentation, to support marketing efforts, grant and charter school applications, curriculum approvals, etc.;
• Support curriculum-based projects with knowledge of the Stride curriculum and state standards.

Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Required Qualifications:   

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Education, Curriculum Design, or Instruction AND
• Three (3) years instructional or curriculum experience OR.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Certificates and Licenses: Relevant teaching license preferred

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

• Strong content knowledge in English/Language Arts, particularly in early literacy and the science of reading.
• Experience doing curriculum alignment work in K-12 or higher education
• Strong familiarity with state and national English/Language Arts curriculum standards
• Experience mapping state standards to curriculum
• Strong knowledge of standards, alignment, curriculum mapping, and standards language
• Able to analyze and review content with strong attention to detail
• Able to prioritize workload and meet critical milestones/deadlines on a tight schedule
• Able to work both independently and collaborate virtually with all team members and staff
• Able to carry out detailed written and/or verbal instructions
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and interpersonal
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, etc.), especially Excel functionality such as writing Macros being a plus; Web proficiency.
• Ability to clear required background check

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. …