Director, Learning & Instructional Design

Responsibilities

• 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 for CivicScape, shaping how generative AI tool generates curriculum that fits real classroom needs across subjects using data and mapping
• Align external-facing materials to relevant standards (NGSS, C3, ISTE) so they land cleanly in a school’s existing structure
• Build and maintain an internal library of PD resources for teachers, including asynchronous modules, quick-start guides, and live session guides
• Partner with the Executive Director on light customer research—simple interviews and surveys with teachers and students—and translate the findings into our offerings

• Run trubel&co’s teacher community of practice and research-informed PD, and be the primary facilitator for our teacher trainings and workshops, building a cohort of educators who can integrate data civics and mapping tools into their existing classroom practice
• Facilitate monthly public PD offerings for teachers across subjects, helping educators feel confident applying trubel&co tools and pedagogy without needing GIS expertise
• Travel for onsite facilitation for in-person workshops, relevant conferences, and educator convenings
• Partner with the Growth team to identify and qualify leads for teacher PD and district partnerships, while preparing tailored proposals and scopes of work
• Partner with the Growth team on conference proposal submissions, bringing the instructional voice and content clarity to the pitch
• 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 trubel&co’s Geospatial Justice Facilitators, focused on developing their classroom delivery, instructional judgment, and curricular execution, in partnership with Associate Director of Programs
• Observe programs in the field and virtually, and translate observations into concrete, actionable feedback that builds facilitator capacity without undermining facilitator confidence
• Partner with the Executive Director to scope new program pilots and shape department strategy
• Emphasize frameworks such as critical civic inquiry, abolitionist pedagogy, liberatory design, transformative justice, virtual flipped classrooms, and strategies for supporting marginalized students

• 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
• Connect curriculum to internal impact measures and host office hours for staff support

What the First Year Looks Like

What we’re looking for

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: This is a startup. You are a self-starter, able to build your own structure. You will wear multiple hats, build things that don’t exist yet, pivot quickly, and occasionally need to figure things out without a playbook. You bring an ownership orientation, a growth mindset, and a genuine hunger for feedback. You come to the ED with solutions, not just problems.
• Instructional Leadership: You have designed and led curriculum development at an organizational level, not just as an individual contributor. You know how to set quality standards, give teachers and designers feedback that sharpens their work, and build systems that make good instruction reproducible across facilitators and contexts.
• Facilitation Excellence: You are a skilled facilitator who is comfortable leading learning experiences for teachers, youth, and mixed audiences. You make rooms feel safe and rigorous at the same time. You know how to read a room and adjust without losing the thread of the lesson. We are especially looking for candidates with experience training formal educators.
• Data Civics and Content Fluency: You bring experience in one or more of the following trubel&co topics: GIS/maps, data literacy, STEM, civics, social studies, or environmental justice, and you can make that content feel relevant and grounded for learners who don’t see themselves as data people. Familiarity with ArcGIS Online is a strong plus. We are especially looking for candidates with strong social studies/civics and/or environmental science background.
• Coaching Orientation: You know how to give feedback that builds people up rather than diminishing them. You have coached facilitators, teachers, or instructional designers and you understand that the goal is capacity building, not compliance.
• Strategic and Operational Range: You can think about where a program or department needs to go in 12 months and then sit down and write the rubric that moves it there. You’d led teams and departments in the past and are excited to bring this leadership to trubel&co. You are comfortable holding ambiguity, making decisions autonomously with incomplete information, and proactively flagging when you need help.
• Justice Commitment: You carry an unwavering commitment to educational equity and liberatory pedagogy. You understand that communities closest to harm have the most legitimate knowledge to address it, and that philosophy shapes how you design and deliver learning.

Department Structure

• Associate Director of Programming (direct report; this role manages our Geospatial Justice Facilitators day-to-day)
• Contracted Instructional Designers
• Fellows and Interns (to support learning and programmatic efforts)