Curriculum Specialist

The Curriculum Specialist (CS) tracks, develops, revises, reviews and analyzes all curriculum projects for which the Bay Area Academy (BAA) is contracted. The CS will work independently and in partnership with regional and statewide training entities to review existing curricula and training tools for BAA. The CS will provide a range of curriculum development and educational activities, including overseeing the tracking of development and completion of regional curriculum priorities, curriculum development, curriculum review and observation of trainings in line with contractual obligations. The CS will meet with county and statewide partners, conduct regional curriculum needs assessment activities and will attend statewide meetings including the Curriculum Development Oversight Group (CDOG) and the Supervisor Core Development Oversight Group (Supe Dog). The CS will lead the Academy’s Remediation efforts to ensure that all curriculum is American with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant. The CS will partner with the Training Supervisor to support the Academy’s curriculum information management system. The CS is a member of the Academy’s Learning Systems Team.

Some essential job functions are:

• Follow the Academy’s established protocol to oversee and track all curriculum development and revision requests. 

• Develop, review and revise curriculum as identified by needs assessment.

• Observe trainings and participate in debriefing sessions providing feedback to inform revisions.

• Consult with subject matter experts including trainers, county staff and members of the Academy’s Program Team to provide course content.

• Conducts assessment and analysis to identify new curriculum needs including training modalities and innovations for training delivery.   

• Maintain regular verbal, face-to-face and written contact with trainers, county staff, statewide partners and academy staff including the Assistant Director.

Training Assistant

The Training Assistant is responsible for both in person and virtual training support which includes pretraining, day of training coverage and post training duties. Training Assistant completes logistics such as: acquiring, verifying and duplication of the digital files for curriculum and handouts, classroom set-up, setting up A/V equipment, and communicating with trainers and training participants. Additionally, this position is responsible for the coordination, preparation and administration of all training evaluations, embedded evaluations and pre/post testing materials for assigned trainings. The Training Assistant works within a team of Training Assistants to provide in-person and virtual training support services to 12 county social service agencies. This position will work from home and travel on site to various training locations throughout the Bay Area. For virtual trainings the Training Assistant provides appropriate Zoom links, uploading necessary information into the Learning Management System and for all trainings records and tracks attendance and closes out trainings within the system.

Some essential job functions are:

• Training Support: provide in-person and/or virtual assistance to trainers and training participants on assigned training days

• Training Environment: Take attendance, liaise with trainers prior to the training to discuss curriculum duplication, A/V needs, classroom set-up and handout needs, and log in instructions. 

• Provide support to other staff when providing coverage for trainings including closing out training and evaluation duties.

• Responsible for the preparation, delivery and submission of all training evaluations, embedded evaluations, and pre/post testing materials for assigned trainings, including distribution of evaluation summaries to trainers and recording summaries in the LMS database.

• Provide classroom coverage on average three (3) to four (4) days per week.