Curriculum/Instructional Design Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Create and oversee comprehensive cybersecurity curricula, which encompasses courses, modules, lessons, learning pathways, and training programs.

• Establish learning objectives, competencies, prerequisites, and measurable outcomes.

• Ensure alignment of curriculum content, instructional activities, and assessments.

• Utilize instructional design models such as ADDIE, SAM, or similar frameworks, along with principles of adult learning.

• Design instructor-led, hands-on, scenario-based, laboratory, workshop, tabletop, and blended-learning experiences.

• Incorporate SME content across various areas including Cyber Governance, Cyber Operations, Digital Forensics, Law Enforcement Integration, and other technical fields.

• Create and maintain course outlines, lesson plans, instructor and student guides, presentations, exercises, laboratory instructions, case studies, scenarios, job aids, and reference materials.

• Develop and implement assessments for knowledge, skills, and performance evaluation.

• Assess training effectiveness and analyze results from evaluations.

• Identify learning gaps, evaluate student performance, and suggest improvements to the curriculum.

• Establish and uphold curriculum quality assurance standards.

• Perform regular reviews of instructional materials to ensure accuracy, consistency, relevance, clarity, and alignment.

• Maintain documentation for the curriculum, including traceability, revision histories, and curriculum maps.

• Create integrated cybersecurity training pathways that connect technical disciplines and support organizational and partner-nation cybersecurity goals.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.

• Formal training or professional development in adult learning theory, instructional design methodologies, curriculum development, and learning assessment.

• 3–5 years of progressive experience in developing, designing, and maintaining technical or cybersecurity-related curriculum.

• Experience in transforming subject matter expert (SME) content into structured, learner-centered training.

• Possession of one or more certifications such as CompTIA CTT+, ATD Instructional Design, or similar.

• Experience in developing or adapting cybersecurity or technical curricula for international training or engagement.

• Work experience in delivering training in low-resource environments.

• Ability to modify SME-developed training materials for non-technical audiences, especially in law enforcement, government, policy, and governance sectors.

• Experience in briefing leadership and decision-makers.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Capability to produce professional reports, training materials, policy documents, briefings, and other program deliverables for government and interagency audiences.

• Willingness and ability to travel OCONUS (Bahamas) for short-term temporary duty assignments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Part-time employment.

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Up to 25% travel compensation/assignment coverage is not explicitly stated.