Senior Instructional Designer II

Are you looking for purpose-driven work where you can make a positive impact on communities around the world? If so, then Committee for Children is an amazing place to grow your career as a Senior Instructional Designer II. We’re a social enterprise dedicated to advancing the well-being of children through the development of essential human skills. As a Senior Instructional Designer II at CFC, you’ll lead the design and development of high-quality digital human skills learning programs for K–12 students and educators. This role owns end-to-end content development, from defining instructional approaches to delivering student and educator-facing experiences that drive meaningful classroom impact.

Working cross-functionally with research, product, and design partners, this role translates learning science and user needs into cohesive, engaging, and effective learning solutions. The Senior Instructional Designer II serves as a program-level leader, guiding content direction, ensuring alignment and quality across experiences, and contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team environment.

Our team is collaborative, creative, and passionate about our work. You’ll have an opportunity to make an impact every day and have a say in the way we use client success to transform the lives of children.

What you’ll do when you join us:

• Applies a learning-first mindset by identifying educator and student needs, defining instructional problems, and designing for scale, reuse, and maintainability across products
• Lead and guide work as a program expert and leader by establishing ID team processes, reviewing education criteria, directing relevant workstreams, and providing constructive feedback on a regular basis
• Lead content development and writing of curriculum, including drafting, revising, and finalizing student-facing and educator-facing instructional materials
• Design and develop implementation materials and professional learning experiences to support educators in classroom delivery, including guides, tools, and embedded supports that drive fidelity of implementation
• Collaborate with researchers and subject matter experts to conceptualize and develop digital learning curriculum that extends into the physical classroom and related program supports
• Lead backward planning using Understanding by Design or similar planning methodologies.
• Ensure instructional quality, alignment, and coherence across K-12 programming, accountable for final sign-off of the the educational criteria. Collaborate with visual designers, media production team, and others to design and deliver aligned, on-time assets.
• Analyze data and synthesize feedback from a variety of sources to develop and implement action plans for improvement.
• Manage, coach, and mentor less experienced instructional designers, independent contractors, and content experts
• Other duties as assigned

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 10+ years of experience developing digital educational programs, learning experiences, educational applications, or educational games or simulations, in the K-12 marketplace.
  • Developing curriculum using Understanding by Design learning framework, culturally responsive teaching practices, and conditions for learning as identified by PERTS.
  • Demonstrated experience in writing and developing high-quality instructional content for both students and educators, including implementation supports and professional learning materials
  • Experience designing curriculum and instructional materials for K–5 learners, including early childhood education contexts
• 5+ years of experience working as an educator in a traditional school setting
  • Experience working with or supporting K–5 and/or early childhood classrooms strongly preferred
• Master’s Degree in Learning Sciences, Educational Technology, Instructional Design or related field of study
• Proven ability to lead, coach, or mentor others while managing multiple workstreams.
• Advanced ability to apply current and innovative learning and instructional design theories and techniques to analyze, design, develop, implement, evaluate, and modify learning programs. Experience collaborating with researchers and using qualitative/quantitative data to iterate curriculum.
• Experience designing and facilitating professional development for educators, including PLC-aligned learning experiences and resources
• Advanced ability to manage ambiguity, identify creative solutions, respond to changing work or product needs, and ideate ways to surpass constraints.
• Software Applications: Knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Miro, Slack, Asana, and Jira. Ability to investigate and learn new digital technologies related to work or design.

Note: This position is remote; employees are eligible to work remotely in any of the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, MA, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA. Travel Requirements This role involves occasional travel to the Seattle office, typically between 1 to 4 times per year depending on the position.

The hiring range for this position is $110,000-122,000 annually. The pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

What we offer:

Our benefits, perks, and rewards are aimed at helping you live your best life at CFC.

• We cover 100% of your premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage and 50% for your dependent’s medical and dental premiums
• Retirement plan + company match up to 3%; CFC
• A flexible work subsidy: $100 per month that you can use on things like phone and internet costs, office supplies, or even commuting costs
• 16 paid holidays (including winter break and 1 floating holiday), 3 weeks' vacation in your first year, and separate sick leave accrual
• Other great benefits include: monthly contribution to childcare and/or dependent expenses, FSA account, parental leave, sabbatical leave, employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, growth and development opportunities, disability and life insurance.

About us

At Committee for Children, we’re dedicated to advocating for policies to enhance, gathering research to support, and developing educational programs to advance the safety and well-being of children through development of essential human skills.

We’re best known for our innovative Second Step® family of programs, which blend research and rigor with intuitive design to help young people build strengths that will help them realize their goals throughout life. We believe that if you make a positive impact on enough children, the ripple effect will help a family, school, community, and ultimately, the world.

We’re proudly building a more equitable workplace.

We’re committed to providing a place that empowers you to bring every bit of who you are to work. When you’re able to be yourself, you do your best work. It’s as simple as that.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to cultivating a workplace in which diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and respected. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, without regard to race, color, age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, genetics, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Apply now and help us achieve our vision of safe children thriving in a just and peaceful world.