Instruction Partners
Lead, Professional Learning and Design
Edtech.com's Summary
Instruction Partners is hiring a Lead, Professional Learning and Design to oversee the production of training materials and ensure alignment with grant requirements. The role involves managing projects with high autonomy, adapting instructional tools to partner needs, and providing professional learning support to delivery teams to drive effective execution.
Highlights
- Lead the production of grant-funded materials and training sessions with strict compliance to funder specifications.
- Design and deliver professional learning resources based on adult learning best practices, including turnkey facilitation guides.
- Manage complex project plans with agile methods, ensuring clear communication and audit readiness.
- Adapt core instructional frameworks to diverse partner contexts and funding streams.
- Provide informal coaching and asynchronous training to support delivery staff.
- Maintain deep knowledge of grant and program requirements, ensuring rapid and aligned team learning.
- Requires 5+ years of experience in instructional design, project management, and grant-funded compliance.
- Salary: $85,500 with competitive benefits, private retirement options, and generous vacation policy.
- Work involves up to 50% national travel and is funded by a time-limited grant (1-2 years).
- Focus on supporting educational equity for students of color, low-income students, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities.
Lead, Professional Learning and Design Full Description
Lead, Professional Learning and Design
Remote
Temporary
Experienced
Remote
Temporary
Experienced
This is a temporary, full-time remote position anywhere in the contiguous United States, with national travel expected up to 50%.This position is funded through a time-limited grant, with a projected term of 1–2 years.
What You’ll Do
The Professional Learning and Design Lead exercises high autonomy and tactical project management to oversee the production of core materials within critical service lines. While maintaining high-volume output, the Lead ensures all deliverables align with state, district, and philanthropic funding requirements without compromising the integrity of the core service model. The role manages independent production schedules, coordinates with internal stakeholders to meet program standards, and drives progress toward organizational outcomes. By adapting existing frameworks to meet nuanced needs, the Lead provides the professional learning and feedback necessary for delivery team members to execute effectively for partners.
The Professional Learning and Design Lead exercises high autonomy and tactical project management to oversee the production of core materials within critical service lines. While maintaining high-volume output, the Lead ensures all deliverables align with state, district, and philanthropic funding requirements without compromising the integrity of the core service model. The role manages independent production schedules, coordinates with internal stakeholders to meet program standards, and drives progress toward organizational outcomes. By adapting existing frameworks to meet nuanced needs, the Lead provides the professional learning and feedback necessary for delivery team members to execute effectively for partners.
Responsibilities:
Program Strategy & Alignment
Program Strategy & Alignment
- Maintains deep technical knowledge of specific grant or program requirements to ensure full alignment and rapid turnkey of learning across the team
- Proactively drives independent learning and strategic execution in areas of high ambiguity to maintain program momentum while adjusting effectively to change
- Implements specific grant and program-level work while aligning closely with the broader vision and guidance established by leadership
- Fosters trust and collaboration with colleagues by demonstrating organizational values through daily actions
Strategic Material Ownership & Alignment
- Operates with high-level autonomy to manage the production of grant-funded materials and training sessions, ensuring strict alignment with funder-specific glossaries and reporting requirements
- Adapts existing core instructional tools, frameworks, and systems to fit specific partner contexts or diverse funding streams within established design parameters
- Designs and delivers professional learning resources aligned with adult learning best practices, ensuring all materials include turnkey facilitation guides that enable teams to execute with high effectiveness
- Identifies and resolves project challenges independently while providing feedback on tools and systems to the broader design team to improve current production processes
- Adapts and aligns existing model components to meet specific funding requirements, collaborating across teams to mitigate implementation risks
- Provides informal coaching and tactical guidance to service delivery staff through asynchronous briefs and training materials to ensure rapid internal adoption of newly aligned resources
Agile Project Management & Integration
- Self-manages complex project plans that pivot based on stakeholder decision-making, maintaining transparent status tracking and flagging potential resource constraints for leadership
- Evaluates issues and anticipates challenges to translate outcomes from internal design reviews into prioritized production tasks
- Ensures all weekly assets meet organizational brand and quality standards while communicating with clarity across diverse audiences
- Maintains strict version control across all deliverable components to ensure staff utilizes only current, compliant resources and to maintain audit-readiness for grant reporting
Candidate Qualifications and Traits:
- 5+ years of relevant experience, with a demonstrated ability to manage projects, execute complex work, and support team development
- Instructional Design & Professional Learning Delivery: Advanced ability to design and deliver professional learning resources that adapt existing frameworks to meet nuanced partner needs while adhering to adult learning best practices
- Agile Production & Project Ownership: Proven ability to manage and execute a high-volume production queue with increasing levels of ownership and autonomy to ensure deliverables align with strategic goals
- Grant-Funded Compliance & Material Alignment: Expert skill in identifying and resolving project challenges related to funder-specific requirements, including the ability to map core model components to diverse compliance glossaries
- Turnkey Facilitation & Support: Demonstrated expertise in creating instructional facilitation guides and asynchronous training tools that provide informal coaching and enable delivery teams to execute with immediate effectiveness
- Stakeholder Communication & Adaptability: Proficient in communicating with clarity across diverse audiences and adjusting style to context to ensure shared understanding of project deliverables
Instruction Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Instruction Partners complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Compensation:
The salary for this role is $85,500. Detailed information about the organizational compensation philosophy can be found here. Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options are available, as well as a generous vacation policy. See our detailed benefits package here: Benefits in Brief Overview. Additionally, Instruction Partners participates in E-Verify. Please see the E-Verify “Notice of Participation” and the Department of Justice “Right to Work ” posters for more information.
Our Mission:
We strengthen instructional leadership in schools, school systems, and states to ensure teachers have the support they need to improve learning experiences and learning outcomes for students— with attention to students of color, students experiencing poverty, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities.
Our Vision:
All students experience an excellent education that prepares them to contribute to their community, achieve economic security, and pursue their dreams.
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