Current Career Opportunities at the K20 Center

Game Play Programmer

Job Number: 222055

A Game-Play Programmer will follow standards set by the industry and the K20 Center to implement projects that will be used by teachers and students. These projects may assist in student understanding of a subject, assess student abilities in an area, or be used to allow teachers to better organize curriculum’s based on findings from analyzed tracking data. These projects include educational games, tool sets used to implement these games, and any other educational software as it is needed by the K20 Center. This incumbent’s job tasks will include:

  • Game Development
  • Test-Driven Development
  • Tool Development
  • Technical Documentation
  • Source Control
  • Communication

Mentoring Coordinator

Job Number: 221642

The Mentoring Coordinator will guide the stakeholders in planning, organizing, communicating, and monitoring evidence-based services with school partners and ensure that they are aligned to specified project outcomes. The incumbent will oversee project management, participant management, and development of high-quality resources in support of the mentoring services. This professional will facilitate the ongoing development of each educator to insure the successful implementation and management of school-based mentoring programs. This incumbent’s job tasks will include:

  • Project Management
  • Participant Management
  • Team Coordination
  • Professional Learning Facilitation
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Instructional Design
  • Research

Project Director

Job Number: 222055

The Project Director will coordinate staff, evaluators, and researchers in planning, organizing, communicating, and monitoring evidence-based services with school and community partners to ensure that they are aligned to specified project outcomes. The incumbent will oversee project management, evaluation services, employee recruitment and development, participant management, technical communications with project stakeholders, and development of high-quality services and resources in support of the project’s deliverables. This professional will facilitate ongoing development of each of the coordinators and their teams to realize their full professional potential. This incumbent’s job tasks will include:

  • Talent Management
  • Project Coordination
  • Evaluation and Reporting
  • Project Management
  • Participant Management
  • Editor
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Professional Learning Facilitation
  • Instructional Design
  • Research

Student Writer/Editor (Spring)

Job Number: 230154

The Student Writer/Editor will use best practices in editing, writing, research, and communications to support project staff as they craft, develop, and publish high-quality student curriculum and instructional resources, professional learning experiences, and college- and career-readiness activities. This incumbent’s job tasks will include:

  • Creative and Technical Writing/Editing: The incumbent will demonstrate effective professional writing by: (1) assisting in the writing, editing, and revision of instructional materials within the conventions ascribed by a team of Instructional Designers and Curriculum Specialists; (2) observing professional writing conventions, including conciseness, readability, clarity, accuracy, honesty, using direct order organization, objectivity, unbiased analysis, summarizing, and use of transitional devices; (3) working collaboratively with a team of specialists on a variety of projects as needed to produce documents for both professional and public use; (4) revising and editing effectively and efficiently in all multiple concurrent assignments.
  • Design/Layout Support: The incumbent will support the publication of only the highest quality resources by serving as a peer collaborator by accurately applying in-house templates (MS Word/PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, AND Google Docs/Slides) to ensure they are effective and fit the Center’s branding.
  • Editor:  The incumbent will support the publication of only the highest-quality resources by serving as a peer editor for both student and adult learning activities and: (1) reviewing instructional approach, content, and activities to ensure that they align with K20’s theoretical framework and practices; (2) collaborating with curriculum writers to ensure that the included resources are easy to understand and use by the intended audience; and (3) approving final versions submitted by contributors to be published in the K20 LEARN repository.

Graphic Artist and Videographer

Job Number: 230593

The Graphics Designer and Videographer will use best practices in graphical design, photography, and videography to support project staff members as they craft, develop, and publish high-quality student curriculum and instructional resources, professional learning experiences, and college and career readiness activities. This incumbent’s job tasks will include:

  • Graphic Design
    • Creates content for digital platforms, in venue, and internal use.
  • Responsible for shooting, developing, and editing video in the creation of high-impact video content.
  • Videography
    • ​​​​​​​Records video concepts
    • Sets up and breaks down recording equipment before and after use.
  • Edits video footage
  • Photography
  • Project Management
    • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Conceptualizes and plans video shoots, to include meeting with University or team members.

Software Quality Assurance Lead

Job Number: 221037

The Quality Assurance Lead oversees the overall performance of all the applications developed by the K20 Center, such as educational games and the system to deliver and manage them. The QA Lead creates test cases, scripts, plans and procedures that ensure development of content, art and interaction as specified by the technical documents (Instructional Design Document, Game Design Document, and Technical Design Document). The QA lead follows stablished industry standards to test the software at specified milestones and reports issues into a database. The QA lead mentors and coordinates testers to run test cases, scripts, plans and generate issue reports as necessary. The QA lead creates and maintains a defect database and in coordination with team leads assigns said issues and perform regressions as needed. The QA Lead assist on the field testing of the games and makes recommendations to proper implementation. This incumbent’s job tasks will include:

  • Technical Documentation
  • Defect Management
  • Application Implementation
  • Testing
  • Talent Management
  • Communication

Office Assistant – Student Employee (Spring)

Job Number: 223413

Basic Purpose/Job Function: Provide assistance to the Research and Evaluation team, which includes data entry, report production and analysis, and maintenance of the database system. This position is heavily detail-oriented, requiring daily in-depth use of the database system

Job Summary: Our organization needs a reliable, organized Office Assistant to manage the day-to-day administrative aspects of running the Center. The successful Office Assistant will have a positive attitude, a desire to work as efficiently as possible, and excellent client-facing communication skills. Office Assistant should be able to operate effectively with little or no supervision and who can manage multiple tasks at once without becoming overwhelmed. The Office Assistant will be responsible for:

  • Phones & Faxes
  • Copying/Scanning
  • Maintaining office supplies
  • Front Desk Management
  • Office Management
  • Technological Troubleshooting & Asset Management
  • Emergency Response
  • Other miscellaneous tasks

Professional Development Coordinator

The Professional Development Coordinator will guide the Professional Learning team in planning, organizing, communicating, and monitoring evidence-based services with school partners and ensure that they are aligned to specified project outcomes. The incumbent will oversee project management, participant management, and development of high-quality resources in support of the Professional Learning services. This professional will facilitate the ongoing development of each member of this team to help team members realize their full professional potential. This incumbent’s job tasks will include:

  • Project Management
  • Participant Management
  • Editor
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Professional Learning Facilitation
  • Instructional Design
  • Research