Remote, US-based

We are currently looking for passionate instructors and subject matter experts to help us modify and author content for our current courses that focus on eliminating the academic equity gaps specifically experienced by Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and low-income students. Do you love writing engaging activities and assessment questions based on cutting edge and culturally relevant examples? Are you excited to do work that will help students who may struggle through GenEd courses because of a plethora of obstacles? Do you also have a finger on the pulse of current changes in your field? 

Our current course titles in progress:

  • Introductory Statistics
  • Quantitative Reasoning
  • Calculus 1
  • College Algebra
  • Computer Applications for Managers
  • Business Communication
  • Principles of Management
  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Lifespan
  • College Success

The ideal candidate is someone with lived experience similar to that of the students we are trying to support through our courseware. However, we encourage you to apply if you have a deep passion for equity in education and are excited about these tasks, even if you don’t meet the exact description of our ideal candidate. 

This is flexible work that can be done from home, anywhere in the US. The work can be either part-time or full-time and is milestone-based rather than a fixed number of hours per week. Please note this is an Independent Contractor role, and you will receive a 1099.

About Lumen Learning

Our mission is to enable unprecedented learning for all students with an emphasis on ensuring that race, income, and gender are not predictors of success. We are a fast-paced, tech company service in higher education currently supporting more than 400,000 students, 5,000 faculty members at more than 500 colleges and universities across the country. Lumen provides solutions that create effective learning experiences for students and guide faculty members in the use of evidence-based teaching practices that improve student success.

We are doing something that has not been done before. Each position requires an individual who can assess the needs of customers, the education community, and other Lumen team members and develop new approaches and solutions. This requires creativity, commitment, generosity, openness, and a drive to create belonging for our team and community. You can read more about our company values here, and find out more about what we do on our website.

We are committed to building an organization that reflects the diversity of the communities and students we serve. We can only achieve our goals by creating a team of differing perspectives, social circumstances, values, and abilities, including those of historically resilient communities. We strongly encourage applications from Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, Asian, & other People of Color, immigrants, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, and members of underrepresented groups. Lumen Learning is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. ​​

Position Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in the field of the referenced course (Mathematics, Statistics, Business, Psychology, Education, Management, Communication, etc.), equivalent work experience, or adjacent fields of study
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent time and project management skills, including the ability to meet project deadlines
  • Extremely reliable: When you take on a task, you see it through to the best of your ability
  • Great people skills: you respect and enjoy working with people and organizations to help them succeed at their objectives
  • While this work is primarily asynchronous, you must have availability to meet once per week (US Pacific time zone) with a Lumen Course Product Manager and other SMEs working on the course project
  • Experience working with students from Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and low-income backgrounds, and a strong aspiration to help remove barriers for these students
  • Interest in evidence-based teaching practices and pedagogy as it applies to learning within your subject area

Project Roles

  • Core Content Author: Create the expository content (text, images, video) used in Lumen courses, and write transition content to fill gaps as we rearrange pieces of the course.
  • Question Author: Create outcome-aligned assessment questions with feedback for practice opportunities, self-checks, and quizzes.
  • Classroom Activity Author: Create powerpoints, in-class activities, assignments, discussion prompts, and teacher resources that Lumen instructors use to guide lessons in their classrooms.
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Reviewer: Evaluate examples for cultural relevance and inclusion principles and suggest specific improvements. 
  • OHM Question Author: Create and code algorithmic questions in the Lumen OHM platform, or write questions that we then code into regenerative questions within OHM.

Submit your application for becoming a Lumen Learning SME here.