Curriculum Developer

Northwest Lineman College is an award-winning institution, providing educational services for the power industry. NLC has been setting an exceptional standard of training for pre-apprentice, apprentice, and journey-level linework since 1993. We are an employer that brings innovation and vision and genuinely cares about the happiness of our people. Our work is fast-paced, fun, and challenging - always hiring for drive, determination, and grit. We are passionate about training because we change lives and improve safety and highly value our customers, pushing ourselves to excellence and making work fun.

Northwest Lineman College is proud to offer a generous total rewards package to all full-time employees! This includes benefits such as medical insurance options, Dental, Vision, ST/LT Disability, Voluntary Life and Critical Illness options. In addition to the standard benefit options, employees are eligible for the Employee Assistance, Wellness, and Take Good Care Programs as well as a robust Paid Time Off plan that includes 8 paid holidays, 2 floating holidays and hefty accrual rates. But wait, there’s more! Additional benefits include 401k savings plan with match options, tuition reimbursement, annual reimbursements of membership dues for Costco & Sam’s Club, clothing allowance, and extended employee discounts. Be sure to check out the details of our total rewards package on our company careers page!

The Curriculum Developer will improve learning experiences that educate the electric power trade workforce through all stages of career growth and development.  This role will leave a mark on the industry by ensuring curriculum is practical, consumable, logically structured and sequenced, and uses audience-appropriate language.  This individual will partner with a team of creative problem-solvers and subject matter experts to improve curriculum that is delivered in the classroom, lab, field, and virtual environments where our NLC students learn and work.

*FULL ON-SITE POSITION
*10% TRAVEL REQUIREMENT WITH THIS ROLE

• Improve practical, relevant, and accurate technical curriculum for the trade to include instructor-led materials, eLearning, operator manuals, educational assessments, reports, and exam items.
• Maintain document versioning, changelogs, and the rollout process to publish revised curriculum.
• Creatively problem solve while balancing quality and practicality to achieve project goals.
• Leverage technology to efficiently develop and publish curriculum including LMS, Adobe InDesign, PowerPoint, Monday.com, and eLearning authoring app platforms.
• Design and develop learning around best practices from department operations and style guides.
• Collaborate with curriculum graphic designers, coordinators, editors, subject matters experts, and Creative team members to bring content to life.
• Drive alignment through skillful interview and facilitation techniques to extract project requirements and technical information from customers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts.
• Actively learn about the trade workforce, our customers, and our products and services, including our vast library of curriculum and associated assets.

• B.A. or B.S. degree in technical writing, journalism, communication, English, curriculum development, instructional design, education, or related field.
• Five (5) years’ experience creating curriculum in lieu of a degree.
• Prior experience working in a content production environment.

• Experience using Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign), workplace productivity tools (Monday.com), and eLearning authoring tools (Articulate).
• Knowledge of adult learning b est practices (developing curriculum and/ or delivering instruction).
• Prof iciency in basic office and web-based software (MS Office Suite, Smartsheet, etc.).
• Excellent client-facing and communication skills – oral and written.
• High level of abstract reasoning, to include flexible thinking, creativity, judgement, and logical problem solving.
• Proven ability to prioritize and deliver in a fast-paced and dynamic office environment, coordinating multiple projects and responsibilities concurrently.
• Self-starter that is highly motivated and detail oriented.

$57,640 - $72,050 annually, DOE

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