Digital Technology Instructor - Lead

Company Description

Background

Since 1976, St. Joseph Center has been meeting the needs of low-income and homeless individuals and families in Venice, Santa Monica, Mar Vista, and surrounding communities.  The Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that assists people without regard for religious affiliation or lack thereof through comprehensive case management and integrated social service programs.  The Center enjoys broad-based community support as well as a sponsored relationship with its founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet.  St. Joseph Center serves approximately 6,000 individuals annually.

Brief Description of Principal Activities

Multifaceted intervention, prevention, and education services are carried out at four sites on the Westside of Los Angeles.  St. Joseph Center’s integrated programs provide clients with concentrated and coordinated access to services according to the nature of their needs.

Job Description

Job Summary

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.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & 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.

Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned. The duties and responsibilities listed are designed to provide typical examples of the work performed; not all duties and responsibilities assigned are included here, nor is it expected that all similar positions will be assigned every duty and responsibility.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• 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 engag