Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Recademics is a founder-owned outdoor education company that provides state-approved certification courses for various outdoor activities. They are seeking contract Content & Curriculum Writers to develop and enhance courseware, with the potential for long-term engagement and content system ownership.
Responsibilities
- Create instructional content from standards set by regulatory bodies
- Author and refine assessment items and question pools
- Adapt content into state-specific variants that meet each state agency’s requirements
- Apply instructional-design best practices — spaced repetition, retention-focused structure, scaffolding — to both new and existing material
- Collaborate with subject-matter experts to draft, review, and polish content
- Own the content backlog: use student data, reviews, and assessment performance to decide what to build or improve next
- Implement and configure course content within our Learning Management System (LMS)
- Manage content across all media — text, image, video, and interactive activities — including briefing and QA’ing production work
- Keep courseware mapped and aligned to national and state standards, and maintain that record over time
- Measure learning outcomes and reviewer readiness, and feed results back into the next round of improvements
Skills
- Classroom or training experience as an educator (current or former)
- Instructional design or curriculum development experience (you've built lessons, courses, or assessments, not just delivered them)
- Strong, clear writing with an eye for how people learn and retain
- Comfort working independently, hitting deadlines, and incorporating feedback in a fast-moving small company
- AI-forward (you should use AI regularly in your workflows)
- Reliable for 10–20 hours per week
- Familiarity with online/eLearning course design, or LMS platforms
- Comfort using AI tools as a drafting partner while keeping a sharp editorial eye on accuracy
- Experience with multimedia learning — scripting video, designing activities and visual content
- You're outdoorsy — you boat, hunt, fish, ride, dive, or otherwise spend time outside
Benefits
- Flexible scheduling
- Potential to grow into a long-term role for the right person
- Remote (U.S.-based) / Dallas – Fort Worth area is nice to have
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