Curriculum Specialist- HSCET

Responsibilities

• Manages and develops the comprehensive curriculum portfolio for the HSCET program, spanning both in-residence courses and Mobile Training Team (MTT) lines of effort.
• Applies curriculum and instructional design methodologies to HSCET information products and processes, ensuring all materials align with global health security objectives.
• Plans and monitors curriculum and instructional design processes, ensuring all educational packages are executed, reviewed, and finalized in alignment with program milestones.
• Maintains and manages a centralized HSCET curriculum database, establishing and executing protocols for version control across all lesson plans, syllabi, slides, and academic master files.
• Participates in and facilitates team discussions related to curriculum and instructional design, ensuring academic alignment across administrative, logistical, and technical program components.
• Collaborates with medical and operational Subject Matter Experts [like the HSCET POI Expert] to gather technical inputs, evaluate course content for instructional effectiveness, and formalize structural updates or clinical changes into the master database under strict version control.
• Prepares instructional aides, including worksheets, workbooks, clinical simulation scenarios, exercises, and evaluation tools.
• Evaluates education and training audiences, applying curriculum and instructional design methods and processes to shape instructional products to best match the diverse, sometimes austere or resource-limited environments of partner nation trainees.
• Participates in activities related to the identification of curricula to meet educational needs (new, existing, or unmet) in the field of global health security cooperation and engagement.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Education required.
• Minimum of 3-5 years experience required.
• Knowledge of principles and practice of academic curriculum/instructional design to include storyboard development, curriculum/instructional design and development methods, adult learning principles and methods, health terminology and principles, and international engagement principles and methods.
• Possess strong management, teaching, public speaking, organizational and communications skills, as well as an educational or professional background in healthcare and teaching adult learners.
• Exceptional organizational capability specifically regarding digital knowledge management and maintaining meticulous version control records for a dynamic catalog of materials.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a T1 Public Trust background check.