Limited-Term Career-Connected Learning Program Developer

Limited-Term Career-Connected Learning Program Developer

Seattle, WA

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10 is an education research organization with a philanthropic focus on expanding ideas about learning and creating direct value for youth. In collaboration with a wide range of partners, we surface, evaluate, and share opportunities to better support youth learning both inside and outside the classroom. Building on more than a decade of impactful work, our unique approach blends applied and experimental research, philanthropy, and education programs rooted in evidence-based best practices.

The Career-connected learning and Life Skills Team (CCLLS) at foundry
10 is an interdisciplinary team that currently focuses on research and philanthropy in support of expanding the ways that educators and students think about preparing youth for their adult life. The team is looking to add a new program-focused team member for 18 months to specifically explore foundry
10’s potential to develop and pilot our own career-connected learning programs, with the goal of using these programs to develop tools and stories for other educators in this space. These programs will be integrated with work-related content and develop student skills in career awareness and exploration, career preparation, and career launch. Additionally, we’re looking for someone to build our connections to career-connected learning educators, innovators, and professionals in order to broaden our network and partnership opportunities.

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10 has a well-established Program Pillar that supports the development of safe and high-quality programs, and this role will operate within that Pillar, while working directly with the CCLLS team to further their educational programming goals. We are looking for an innovative and self-driven teacher who has developed and delivered youth programs (ideally for teens) with firsthand experience preparing students for postsecondary life through work-based learning and career preparation education.

An exceptional candidate will have a history of teaching practices that create career-connected student learning outcomes, such as:

• Gaining knowledge of professional code of conduct
• Gaining knowledge about how to pursue a specific job, career, or industry
• Practicing professional job application skills
• Increased interest in entering the workforce

This is a full-time, limited-term (18 months), exempt position with a salary range of $70,000 to $112,625 per year with an anticipated start date of April 2026 through September 2027. This position reports to the Education Program Manager, but will have a close, matrixed relationship with the Team Lead of the CCLLS team.

This is not a remote position. Candidates must live in Washington State and be able to work in person in the greater Seattle area as needed. We are not able to sponsor visa applications, and to be considered for this position, you must be eligible to work in the United States. To protect our staff, partners, and the youth we serve, we require all foundry
10 employees to adhere to our masking and COVID testing policies when working in person.

This role specifically will be exploring career-connected learning programming on the Career-Connected Learning and Life Skills Team (CCLLS), which, for the initial 18-month limited term will include the following:

• Develop/Deliver youth participatory action research (YPAR): Collaborating with the CCLLS lead researcher, the program developer will pilot CCLLS’ first YPAR. This is a style of research that centers the youth as participant-researchers, meaning they are both the subjects (broadly) of the research and the creators and doers of the research. The Program Developer will create the curriculum for guiding students through the YPAR process, work with a community partner to find a group of students, guide/facilitate the meetings, and work with the team to evaluate the program.
  
  Youth will develop professional research skills through the research that they conduct, which will be focused around questions they have about their Career-connected learning journey.
• Develop/Deliver a youth leadership cohort: The program…