EDUCATION-17943 - USA (California) - Learning and Instructional Design Director Services - Deadline August 20,2026

(1) Vendor needs to provide learning and instructional design director services.• Design and develop curricula and learning experiences for external partners: workshops, PD modules, and school/district–facing programming.• Support open access curricula development, including OER workflows, licensing, tagging, and accessibility standards.• Serve as instructional advisor, shaping how generative AI tool generates curriculum that fits real classroom needs across subjects using data and mapping.• Facilitate monthly public PD offerings for teachers across subjects, helping educators feel confident applying tools and pedagogy without needing GIS expertise.• Travel for onsite facilitation for in–person workshops, relevant conferences, and educator convenings.• Assist the executive director with presentations, events, pitches, and speaking engagements related to school and teacher engagement and new pilots.• Lead and manage the learning and programs department, including our associate director of programs, instructional designers, fellows, and interns.• Develop onboarding infrastructure and ongoing professional development for contracted instructional designers, geospatial justice facilitators, and new department staff.• Design and run a structured coaching and support cycle for geospatial justice facilitators, focused on developing their classroom delivery, instructional judgment, and curricular execution, in partnership with associate director of programs.• Drive the design, piloting, and iteration of new curricula, including data civics workshops, GIS–integrated lessons, and civic inquiry modules, to be implemented by our facilitators.• Build and maintain an internal library of student–facing data civics and GIS content: lesson modules, assessments, workshop–in–a–box materials, and supporting media.• Begin orchestrating asynchronous learning modules for GIS and data civics instruction, building toward a self–paced student track.(2) This is not RFP; this is job posting.