# Elementary School Literacy Curriculum Writer Consultant

**Company**: Zeta
**Location**: New York, NY
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: $15,000 - $25,000 per project unit
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

Are you looking to make a BIG impact? At Zeta, we pursue an unprecedented combination of high academic achievement and social-emotional development for our students.

We are searching for an Elementary School Literacy Curriculum Writer Consultant with a Bachelor’s Degree and at least three years of teaching or leadership experience in Literacy.

**Project Scope & Responsibilities**

- Design full-course curricula for Elementary School Literacy, including scope and sequence, unit plans, and daily lesson plans

- Develop high-quality instructional materials, including:

- Student-facing lessons and text-based activities

- Writing prompts, discussion protocols, and projects

- Assessments and rubrics aligned to grade-level standards

- Curate and develop diverse, high-quality text sets that reflect multiple perspectives and lived experiences

- Ensure alignment to New York State standards and Zeta’s academic vision and outcomes

- Embed explicit instruction in literacy skills, including reading, writing, speaking, listening, and critical analysis

- Design performance-based assessments that measure both content knowledge and transferable skills

- Collaborate with academic leaders, instructional coaches, and other curriculum writers to ensure alignment and coherence

- Iterate on curriculum based on educator feedback, student work, and assessment data

**Engagement & Compensation** We are hiring for a 12-month project-based consulting role with an immediate start date. If selected, this role would be offered as a 1099 independent contractor engagement and would not constitute an offer of employment.

- Compensation: Between $15,000 and $25,000 per project unit (depending on experience and project scope)

- Consultants are responsible for their own taxes; consultants are not eligible for Zeta benefit plans.

- Work schedule is flexible; deliverables and deadlines will be agreed upon with the designated project lead.

**Join our purpose-driven community** Zeta collaborators are lifelong learners who live with child-like joy and a deep sense of purpose. We disrupt the status quo and tackle problems together. Our network of consultants stands united by a commitment to a limitless future for every child.

## Skills

### Required
- Literacy curriculum design
- Instructional materials development
- Assessment design
- Curriculum alignment
- Collaboration

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