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.

Responsibilities:

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