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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• This is a home-based position. This position is open to residents of, and may be performed remotely from Washington, D.C., and from any state.
• Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
• We anticipate this position will pay $23.00 – $30.00 per hour. This is a temporary/contractor role, and you will be an employee of Randstad. This salary is not guaranteed, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Randstad offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
• This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and D.C.

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer. 

Job Type

Contractor

The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.

Stride, Inc. is a Federal Contractor, an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status age, or genetics, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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