Senior Implementation Strategist, Next Education Workforce

Arizona State University; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Arizona State University is seeking a Senior Implementation Strategist for the Next Education Workforce in Tempe, Arizona. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and codify educational resources, ensuring the effective implementation of programs. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in educational design, project management, and team collaboration.

Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of seven years of professional experience. This position offers a salary range of $80,000–$115,000, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years of relevant experience in education-related fields.
• Proven ability to design effective learning experiences for adults.
• Experience in K-12 education is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to program codification work.
• Design professional learning experiences at scale.
• Create tools and resources to support implementation.
• Facilitate co-design processes with teams.
• Use data to evaluate content effectiveness.

Skills

Project management

Visual communication

Team collaboration

Instructional design

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Canva

Figma

Google Slides

Asana

Job description

Senior Implementation Strategist, Next Education Workforce

Campus: Tempe

JR121798

End Date: June 10, 2026

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and seven (7) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Salary Range: $80,000–$115,000; DOE

We’re hiring a Senior Implementation Strategist to join our Implementation & Design team at the Next Education Workforce. In this role, you will help codify our model by embedding within the team to identify patterns of success across PK–12 contexts, codify core model elements, and translate them into durable, scalable resources. You will collaborate closely with implementation coaches, designers and other teammates to bridge learnings and patterns from the field to be a lead designer and refiner of materials that support implementation in real school contexts and build coherence across our broader set of offerings.

This role requires someone who can take ownership of projects, navigate ambiguity, and actively codify what works. As we learn more about effective teaming the learning design team must translate effective practices into clear, repeatable frameworks, tools, and resources. As we grow our programming and scale, this role will be crucial in building a coherent system of offerings that reinforces shared language, frameworks, and priorities sequenced intentionally over time.

The ideal start date for this position is on or before August 10, 2026.

• Contribute to program codification work
• Design professional learning experiences for scale
• Create tools, resources, and frameworks to support implementation
• Facilitate co-design processes with Implementation & Design teammates
• Maintain design systems and assets
• Manage projects
• Pilot and refine materials
• Use data to evaluate the effectiveness of content

Desired Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of experience designing learning experiences for adults, or equivalent experience
• 2 years or more of experience teaching in K-12 schools

Content Codification

• Experience translating complex, evolving, or undefined ideas into clear, usable content
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize learnings and patterns from the field into durable frameworks, tools, and resources:li>
• Experience codifying effective practices into structured and scalable resources that can be applied across varied school contexts

Professional Learning Design

• Experience designing professional learning for adult learners across face‑to‑face, virtual, and asynchronous environments
• Knowledge of backward design principles to define clear outcomes and align content, activities, and tools to those outcomes

Visual Design & Usability

• Strong visual communication skills, including experience creating polished slide decks, tools, templates, and facilitation materials
• Demonstrated ability to design intuitive, user‑friendly resources that can be used independently by educators and leaders

Technical skills

• Proficiency with design tools such as Canva, Figma, Google Slides
• Experience creating multimedia instructional content such as videos, screen recordings, voiceovers, or simple animations
• Experience using project management tools, ideally Asana, to manage timelines and collaborate with team members
• Strong organizational skills, including file management and version control systems to support clarity across shared assets

Ownership & Initiative

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, timelines, priorities, and tradeoffs independently
• Evidence of strong judgment, initiative, and ability to move work forward
• Track record of delivering high‑quality work on time and with attention to detail
• Experience using feedback early and often to refine work throughout the design process without getting attached to ideas
• Demonstrated ability to pilot, iterate and improve work based on evidence
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams and various stakeholders
• Commitment to shared responsibility, collaboration, and team‑based ways of working
• Experience incorporating feedback and multiple perspectives in co‑design processes

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.