Career & Curriculum Associate

careervillage; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

CareerVillage.org is seeking a mission-driven Career & Curriculum Associate to advance AI-driven career coaching. You will create and update 50+ career topics, craft prompts, and ensure high-quality, accessible coaching content for diverse learners.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Learning teams in a fast-growing nonprofit environment, translating traditional coaching expertise into AI-enabled learning experiences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience as a career advisor, coach, or in a related field coaching people through career exploration, career planning, and job searching.
• Instructional design experience or Career Coaching Certification.
• Experience translating coaching or advising expertise into written, structured learning content with defined objectives and success criteria.
• Experience working in a very high-growth, fast-paced, rapidly-changing work environment.
• Familiarity with established career development theories, pedagogical frameworks (Bloom's Taxonomy), skills assessment, and competency-building techniques.

Responsibilities

• Create and improve content: Lead the creation of new career development content and update 50+ existing topics; develop prompts grounded in instructional design principles.
• Manage the content feedback loop: Collect, prioritize, and incorporate stakeholder feedback across teams.
• Translate coaching best practices into quality control systems and benchmarks for Coach in AI context.
• Collaborate across teams: Partner with Product, Engineering, Partner Success to align content with platform goals.
• Champion career development excellence and ensure accessibility for diverse learners.

Skills

Career advising

Instructional design

Curriculum development

Content strategy

Coaching AI

Education

Career Coaching Certification (CPCC, BCC, GCDF, NCDA)

Tools

Prompt engineering

Job description

What does world-class career coaching look like? If you're a career development professional with a clear eye for what quality career coaching means and are interested in being part of a high-growth AI nonprofit, we're looking for you! CareerVillage.org, an award-winning global tech nonprofit, is defining what high-quality AI career coaching looks like for ourselves and the field. We're seeking a mission-driven, full-time Career & Curriculum Associate with deep expertise in career development to support this work. If you have a background as a career coach, advisor, or instructional designer, and are excited to translate your knowledge into AI-driven tech, we'd love to hear from you!

About CareerVillage.org

CareerVillage.org is dedicated to democratizing access to career information and advice for underrepresented people. As our Career & Curriculum Associate, you'll be a leader in taking the content and effectiveness of our AI Career Coach, Coach, to the next level.

What you'll do

This is an individual contributor role that reports directly to our Coaching & Learning Expert.

Please note: This role sits at the intersection of two ever-evolving fields: career development and AI. The responsibilities of this role will change as CareerVillage adapts to field learnings. Candidates who are adaptable, comfortable with ambiguity, and embrace a growth-mindset for learning new technology will be a great fit.

• Create and improve content: Lead the creation of new career development content and continuously update 50+ existing career topics to keep pace with learner needs, partner requests, and organizational strategy. This involves developing and maintaining prompts grounded in instructional design principles, that tell Coach how to interact with users step by step (no technical expertise required, you will learn on the job, though comfort with new tools is a must!)
• Manage the content feedback loop : Collect, prioritize, and incorporate feedback from various stakeholders, and handle ad-hoc content requests from across teams as they arise.
• Translate coaching best practices into quality control systems : Support the development of evaluative criteria that measures whether Coach is delivering high quality, personalized coaching. Contribute to benchmark creation: Support our field-building efforts to identify and prove what quality career coaching looks like in an AI context.
• Collaborate across teams: Partner with Product, Engineering, Partner Success, and other teams to bring content to life, ensuring they align with the platform's mission and goals.
• Champion career development excellence: Bring expert knowledge of career advising to guide content strategy, ensuring that all activities are transformative and accessible for learners from diverse backgrounds.

What you bring

3+ years experience as a career advisor, coach, or in a related field coaching people through career exploration, career planning, and job searching, ideally with a diverse group of beneficiaries.

Instructional designer experience or Career Coaching Certification (i.e., CPCC, BCC, GCDF, NCDA certifications, etc.)

Experience translating coaching or advising expertise into written, structured learning content with defined objectives and success criteria.

Experience working in a very high-growth, fast‑paced, rapidly‑changing work environment (i.e., a company or nonprofit that doubled its size multiple years in a row, and you loved it)

Familiarity with established career development theories, pedagogical frameworks (i.e. Bloom's Taxonomy), skills assessment, and competency‑building techniques.

Ability to articulate curriculum concepts clearly and collaborate effectively across teams.

Ability to manage and refine multiple curriculum projects simultaneously, with a focus on quality and learner outcomes.

Preferred requirements

Experience helping job seekers finding employment outside the United States

And/or experience helping job seekers find employment in trade industries.

About you

We know that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. The ideal candidate will have many of the following:

• You are comfortable transitioning to a role where you are no longer coaching humans (you'll be coaching AI, which involves lots of time independently evaluating or updating prompts).
• You are comfortable operating within an established framework. CareerVillage has already defined core frameworks and design principles for Coach - you'll bring deep career‑coaching expertise to execute, stress‑test,andextend that vision (not build it from scratch).
• Confidence and interest in divingintonew technology and a willingnessto learn.
• You are mission‑driven and committedto developing transformational social impact technology.
• Experience working with learners from underserved communities or interest in educatio