Senior Instructional Designer

## **The Team** At Edovo, our mission is to help everyone connected to incarceration build better lives. We’ve created a secure digital platform to expand education behind bars, reduce recidivism and to support the vocational, rehabilitation and communication needs of the 2.2 million people in jails and prisons. Users have access to thousands of hours of self-guided learning materials. Upon release, our learners have the option to continue their progress on the outside. Edovo offers courses in subjects ranging from basic literacy and GED to career exploration and cognitive behavioral therapy. We’re also building tools to keep people in touch with jobs, social services, friends, and family. Our team is committed to supporting opportunities for justice-involved people. Don’t take it just from us. Awards, publications, grants, and partnerships all around the country are recognizing the momentum and impact of Edovo. A select few: Global EdTech Startup Champion in London out of 1,000+ competitors; GIIRS Platinum Rating for social impact; MacArthur Foundation Grant Award Winner; Forbes article feature; Chicago Community Trust grant award winner; Impact Engine portfolio member; SXSW Civic Tech Innovation Pitch Competition runner-up; Chicago Innovation “Up and Comer” Award winner; and so much more. [Check out](https://vimeo.com/168415499) a brief picture of our program from the perspective of the people who use it. Visit Edovo on Vimeo for more. ## **The Role** As a Senior Instructional Designer at Edovo, you will design, evaluate, and elevate learning experiences for incarcerated individuals — working closely with content partners, product teams, and Edovo’s content strategy lead to build courses, frameworks, and processes that meet learners where they are and prepare them for the lives they want to live. You will also play a key role in content management- making sure that all of the content on our platform is discoverable and easily accessible by our learners. ## **What You’ll Do** - Screen and review incoming content submissions — confirming metadata completeness, assigning visibility tags, and managing content through the publishing pipeline to ensure every item on the platform is accurately and appropriately represented - Conduct regular content catalog audits: reviewing series structure, reranking and surfacing featured items, verifying transcript completion on video content, assessing nav map coverage and category health, and logging findings for Product review - Support with partner content upload - Evaluate, classify, and tag content using Edovo’s taxonomy to support content discoverability for learners and facility staff - Supervise and quality-review work produced by contractors and content partners, and identify opportunities to build scalable processes that reduce manual review burden over time - Design and develop original course content for Edovo’s platform, spanning criminogenic risk factors, vocational skills, reentry preparation, life skills, recovery, and holistic personal development - Evaluate content quality using Edovo’s rubrics and standards, making clear, constructive recommendations to partners and internal stakeholders who are not instructional design professionals - Provide consultative professional services to content partners — helping them improve the instructional quality of their materials, structure content for a digital learning environment, and meet Edovo’s quality standards - Contribute to the development of Edovo’s instructional design quality standards, including their integration into content management workflows and the partner-facing content submission experience - Consult with product managers and designers to embed instructional design thinking directly into platform features and learner experience decisions - Apply trauma-informed and adult learning principles across all content you create, review, and advise on - Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate and improve content development — and a…