Experience Design Lead - Future Leaders Program

Intrinsic Schools • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Intrinsic Schools is launching the Future Leaders program, a new lab-school model for an incoming cohort of roughly fifty 9th graders. This model is designed to challenge traditional schooling by deeply integrating student agency, real-world learning, and mastery-based cohort experiences. We are looking for an innovative educator to help build real-world learning experiences.

The Experience Design Lead is responsible for leading the design, coordination, and operational management of the program's afternoon immersive experiences. The role balances strategic program development—both building directly and cultivating external partnerships—with direct instruction and facilitation with active cohorts. This individual shapes meaningful, high-engagement learning structures to help students develop purpose, agency, collaboration, wayfinding, and real-world readiness connected to Intrinsic's Portrait of a Graduate framework.

This is a one-year, grant-funded role. Candidates should understand that the position may not extend beyond the grant period and should be open to returning to a classroom or prior role at Intrinsic, if internal.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in education or a related field from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of 3 years of secondary teaching or instructional leadership experience with a track record of strong student outcomes and adult management.
• Proven capacity to build operational systems, spreadsheets, trackers, and workflows that translate abstract vision into highly organized, executable plans.
• Comfort utilizing educational technology tools, with an active curiosity and willingness to leverage emerging technology and AI-driven platforms.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to cultivate deep, collaborative partnerships with external organizations, staff, families, and students.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including a proven track record of facilitating professional learning or coaching sessions.
• Demonstrated professional standards, including an exceptional work ethic, a reflective mindset, timeline accountability, and an unwavering commitment to advancing equity and justice in education.

Nice To Haves

• Illinois Professional Educator License (PEL) with appropriate endorsement preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and organize a coherent system of immersive afternoon experiences aligned to Intrinsic's graduate vision, developing student-facing materials, sourcing project pipelines, and collaborating with school leaders and external partners to shape new experiences over time.
• Manage the operational backbone of the afternoon program, including schedules, rosters, staffing logistics, space allocation, materials coordination, transportation tracking, and cross-team communication via trackers and spreadsheets.
• Act as the primary, direct lead on specific signature experiences and community quests (off-site real-world work, immersive tours, and field wayfinding), directly coaching students on public voice, collaboration, and self-directed goal tracking during learning sprints.
• Support rapid prototyping and execution tracking during the pilot year; gather, disaggregate, and implement stakeholder feedback to monitor quality, address implementation issues in real time, and document best practices for scaling.
• Design and facilitate professional development toolkits, execution playbooks, pacing guides, and community-engagement protocols for future use
• Nurture relationship-centered learning environments that seamlessly integrate social, emotional, and cognitive skill-building with academic content, upholding the network student culture and expectations outlined in the Student Code of Conduct.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level