Course Developer Pool - Editing - UC Berkeley Extension

Position Overview

Salary range: $6,000 per online course development project.

Percent time:
Part‑time by agreement on a project‐by‑project basis.

Anticipated start:
Position is expected to begin in August 2026.

Review timeline:
Review of applications begins immediately and will continue as needed.

Position duration:
Projects typically range from approximately 4 to 6 months. Project length may vary depending on credits, modules, subject, and level. Further agreements may be assigned based on program needs, meritorious performance, and funding availability.

Open date:
July 10, 2026

Next review date:
Monday, Jul 27, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

Final date:
Saturday, Jul 10, 2027 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

UC Berkeley Extension (UNEX), the continuing education branch of the University of California, Berkeley, has been building bridges between UC Berkeley and the public since 1891. UNEX serves the professional and continuing education goals of thousands of people each year and plays an essential part of the University mission to: extend the research and scholarship of UC Berkeley to a global community;

increase access to higher education for non‑traditional, online, and international students; and improve the workforce. UC Berkeley Extension is a part of the division under the leadership of the Dean of Extended Education that also includes Berkeley Summer Sessions, Berkeley Study Abroad, and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Course developers will serve as subject matter experts and develop one or more professional continuing education online courses for our Professional Sequence in Editing within our Arts and Humanities department.

All duties are performed remotely. All work must be performed in the United States, whether in person or online. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

• Advanced Copyediting
• Substantive Editing
• Editorial Tools (including AI Tools)
• Multi‑Stage Editing Projects
• Copyediting
• Developmental Editing
• Fiction Editing
• Freelancing for Editors
• Indexing
• Proofreading
• Scientific and Medical Editing

• Develop a new asynchronous online course or redevelop/refresh an existing asynchronous online course.
• Collaborate with the academic department on course design, roadmap and framework and determine the number of course modules for each course.
• Collaborate with Academic Department on creating teaching strategies that support the success of all students through inclusive curriculum, classroom environment, and pedagogy.
• Collaborate with Academic Department to create a media plan for the course.
• Collaborate with Academic Department on design of learning activities and learning strategies.

For each course module, develop and provide original raw content for the following common elements:

• Learning Objectives
• Online course topic outline and syllabus
• Lecture segments, including but not limited to video and PowerPoint slides
• Narrative textual content
• Reading assignments
• Learning Activities, including but not limited to discussion prompts, quizzes, assignments with instructions; and
• Assessments, including 3–4 projects with answer keys.

Produce course media with direction and collaboration from the academic department:

• Write scripts and produce PowerPoint slides for all media.
• Provide imagery examples or descriptions for each script to produce media.

Meet weekly or biweekly (twice a month) with the Academic Department over Zoom.

Review completed course content within LMS and provide content quality assurance including media content.

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Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent international degree required.

Additional qualifications (required at time of start)

• 3 or more years of professional industry work experience since degree.
• 1 or more years of online teaching experience since degree.

Preferred qualifications

• 4 or more…