Curriculum Designer

ROLE SUMMARY:

Location: Remote, UK (please note, while this is a fully remote position, candidates must be willing to work from the UK in order to be considered)

Start date: 1 September 2026

Contract: Fixed Term (5 months)

Working Pattern: Full-time

Salary: £34,000 - £39,000

King's InterHigh (KIH) is launching a new asynchronous learning product: a self-paced study offer spanning iGCSE and International A-Level courses. This is an opportunity to help shape a modern digital learning experience from the ground up — combining strong subject teaching, thoughtful curriculum design, and smart use of technology to support learners wherever and whenever they study.

We are hiring Self-Paced Curriculum Designers on a fixed-term basis to design, write, and build the courses — shaping the curriculum, authoring the subject content, and designing it for self-paced, online delivery. You will take the relevant iGCSE or International A-Level specification and turn it into a complete, exam-aligned course that learners can work through independently, using video, assessment, feedback, and interactive digital resources to make learning clear, engaging, and purposeful. This role is about building on strong existing subject knowledge and trusted school materials, then reimagining them for a more flexible, technology-enabled model of learning.

These are fixed-term contracts tied to course delivery, with courses to be delivered across two phases — January 2027 and September 2027.

This is a hands-on creation role with real ownership: you will help define what excellent self-paced online learning looks like for KIH, bringing together pedagogy, digital tools, media, assessment, and learner experience into courses that feel coherent, high-quality, and genuinely useful for students.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Write the course content

• Review, adapt, and develop existing materials to design a fully self-paced curriculum for learners
• Author lessons, explanations, worked examples, activities, and assessments to the agreed template, structure, and quality standards.
• Write to the relevant iGCSE and International A-Level specifications, exam-board requirements, and mark schemes, ensuring content is accurate, complete, and exam-aligned.
• Design a mixture of assessment — some that suits self paced learners, with auto-marked and self-checking questions giving learners instant feedback, alongside key pieces throughout the course that deliver teacher-based feedback.

Build it for self-paced delivery

• Structure and sequence content for independent, self-paced learners with low teacher contact — using chunking, scaffolding, retrieval practice, and purposeful digital interactions to keep learners moving, thinking, and motivated without a live teacher.
• Build courses within school systems to the agreed template and brand, using the available technology to create a polished, consistent learner journey.
• Build a suite of multi-modal resources to bring courses to life — video lessons, voiceovers, screencasts, interactive tools, knowledge checks, and other digital learning assets — alongside the written material.
• Make content accessible and inclusive to all — SEND-aware, readable, with alt text and WCAG considerations applied.

Deliver to schedule and standard

• Work to a production schedule, hitting agreed milestones for each course on a delivery-linked contract.
• Submit drafts for editorial / QA review and sign-off, and revise efficiently on feedback.
• Understand the constraints around correct licensing and developing IP — using third-party content legally and creating compliant, properly owned material that IOS can continue to use long-term.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

Essential

• Current or recent teacher with a teaching qualification and strong subject and curriculum knowledge.
• Experience developing lesson materials for online delivery.
• Experience of asynchronous lesson design / course development.
• Understanding of how to design for independent, self-paced learners.
• Assessment design aligned to iGCSE and International A-Level specifications, exam-board requirements, and mark schemes.
• Experience working with an LMS / VLE.
• Willing and able to record video lessons and voiceovers, comfortable on camera and mic.
• Awareness of accessibility and inclusion (SEND, WCAG, readability).
• Self-motivated and self-managing — works to deadlines, comfortable working remotely and autonomously, and confident taking ownership of a course from initial specification through to finished build.

Highly valued

• Experience of synchronous lesson design.
• Familiarity with iGCSE and International A-Level exam-board requirements and specification alignment.
• Interactive content authoring, including an interest in using digital tools to make learning more active, responsive, and engaging.
• Basic media editing
• Understanding of GDPR, copyright/licensing, and safeguarding in online education.

SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT:

Inspired Education Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, volunteers and other third parties to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practices and pre-employment background checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

SCHOOL APPLICATION FORM:

Please download and complete our Inspired Application Form and submit alongside your CV.

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