Experience Design Lead - Future Leaders Program

About the Future Leaders Program

The Future Leaders program is a new lab-school model for an incoming cohort of roughly fifty 9th graders at Intrinsic Schools. It is designed to challenge traditional schooling by deeply integrating student agency, real-world learning, and mastery-based cohort experiences.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Program Design & Experience Development: Build and organize a coherent system of immersive afternoon experiences aligned to Intrinsic's graduate vision, developing student-facing materials, sourcing project pipelines, and collaborating with school leaders and external partners to shape new experiences over time.
• Systems & Operations Coordination: Manage the operational backbone of the afternoon program, including schedules, rosters, staffing logistics, space allocation, materials coordination, transportation tracking, and cross-team communication via trackers and spreadsheets.
• Direct Experience Facilitation & Student Leadership: Act as the primary, direct lead on specific signature experiences and community quests (off-site real-world work, immersive tours, and field wayfinding), directly coaching students on public voice, collaboration, and self-directed goal tracking during learning sprints.
• Pilot Management, Analytics & Iteration: Support rapid prototyping and execution tracking during the pilot year; gather, disaggregate, and implement stakeholder feedback to monitor quality, address implementation issues in real time, and document best practices for scaling.
• Preparation for Scale: Design and facilitate professional development toolkits, execution playbooks, pacing guides, and community-engagement protocols for future use.
• School Culture & Advisory Alignment: Nurture relationship-centered learning environments that seamlessly integrate social, emotional, and cognitive skill-building with academic content, upholding the network student culture and expectations outlined in the Student Code of Conduct.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education or a related field from an accredited institution.
• Illinois Professional Educator License (PEL) with appropriate endorsement preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of secondary teaching or instructional leadership experience with a track record of strong student outcomes and adult management.
• Proven capacity to build operational systems, spreadsheets, trackers, and workflows that translate abstract vision into highly organized, executable plans.
• Comfort utilizing educational technology tools, with an active curiosity and willingness to leverage emerging technology and AI-driven platforms.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to cultivate deep, collaborative partnerships with external organizations, staff, families, and students.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including a proven track record of facilitating professional learning or coaching sessions.
• Demonstrated professional standards, including an exceptional work ethic, a reflective mindset, timeline accountability, and an unwavering commitment to advancing equity and justice in education.