Digital Technology Instructor

St. Joseph Center•Los Angeles, CA

2h•$55,000 - $55,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Technology Instructor serves as the primary technical educator, curriculum manager, and instructional team leader for the Digital Technology Workforce Development Program. This role designs and builds an AI-forward, multi-population technology curriculum from the ground up, delivers instruction across at least three distinct cohort populations, works to support the Technology Instructor, and works in close collaboration with the Senior Director of Social Innovation to ensure curriculum effectiveness, quality, and alignment with workforce outcomes. The Lead Technology Instructor carries a significant instructional load, teaching across multiple cohort cycles per year and adapting instruction to meet the distinct learning needs of women in healing-centered settings, justice-experienced adults, and transitional age youth. This position requires a level of curriculum development, instructional leadership, and AI expertise that far exceeds the scope of any prior Codetalk or Fortifi instructional role.

Requirements

A high degree of technical ability including professional web development or professional technology career experience, with demonstrated AI tool proficiency and a proactive approach to integrating AI into professional practice.
Demonstrated expertise in designing and building curriculum and instructional materials, not simply delivering existing materials.
Ability to adapt instructional practice to serve learners with significantly different backgrounds, experiences, and barriers, including trauma survivors, returning citizens, and young adults at risk.
Demonstrated knowledge and commitment to healing-centered engagement as a practice framework for instruction in vulnerable populations.
Exceptional ability to distill complex technical concepts into accessible, engaging instruction that builds both skill and confidence.
Highly organized with excellent administrative skills sufficient to manage curriculum documentation, student progress records, and instructional materials to a professional standard.
Self-directed, highly motivated, passionate about the mission; must be willing to challenge themselves and grow with the program.
Ability to work flexible hours including occasional early mornings, evenings, or weekend events as required.
Minimum 3–5 years of professional web development or technology experience, including professional work in at least three of the following: HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript and frameworks, UX/UI Design, WordPress/CMS, Agile/SCRUM, QA, AI-assisted development tools, data visualization.
2- 3 years of teaching, training, or curriculum development experience; workforce development or vocational education experience a strong plus.
Demonstrated experience developing new curriculum and instructional materials (portfolio of curriculum samples or published materials required).
Working knowledge of and genuine fluency with AI tools including GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor; ability to teach AI-assisted workflows to novice learners.
Professional experience preferred over freelance; active GitHub portfolio or professional portfolio required.
A passing grade for a coding or digital proficiency test will be required.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Google Suite — Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet
Mac OS and Windows proficiency
Ability to use electronic health records, databases, data tracking and reporting and program management software

Nice To Haves

Experience teaching across multiple populations with different learning needs in a workforce development, bootcamp, or community-based setting preferred.
Completion of AI/ML coursework, certifications, or advanced AI tool training preferred.
Data visualization experience (Tableau, D3, or equivalent) preferred.
Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and ongoing development of AI-forward, multi-population technology curriculum that serves three distinct cohort tracks: women’s healing-centered track, co-ed justice-involved/housing-unstable track, and youth (18–30) track.
Build the curriculum architecture, including modular “stacked” components: a shared foundational skills layer, population-specific contextual modules, and an advanced track for participants demonstrating higher technical aptitude.
Develop all new assignments, projects, assessments, quizzes, rubrics, and grading systems across all modules and cohort levels.
Integrate AI tools, AI-assisted workflows, and prompt engineering practices throughout every stage of the curriculum, ensuring that AI fluency is a core graduate competency.
Work directly and regularly with the Senior Director of Social Innovation to present curriculum updates, review performance data, analyze graduate employment outcomes by module, and make evidence-based curriculum adjustments.
Evaluate the effectiveness of each curriculum module through student performance data, employer feedback, and graduate employment outcomes; redesign modules that are not producing measurable skill gains or employment results.
Design the advanced skills track curriculum for participants with higher technical aptitude, including deeper AI integration, data concepts, product development, and workplace project simulations.
Maintain up-to-date, professionally presented curriculum documentation, lesson plans, and learning materials to a publication-ready standard.
Conduct ongoing research into AI, web technology, and employment market trends to ensure the curriculum reflects the most current and employable skill sets.