Instructional Designer

Meet Circuit Stream

Where education meets innovation. At Circuit Stream, we offer skill-based online programs for adults ready to upskill or reskill, along with innovative pre-university programs for youth in fields such as technology, design, business, healthcare, and emerging academic disciplines.

We partner with leading universities across North America to deliver hands-on, applied learning that helps students build practical skills, explore future pathways, and gain confidence in what comes next.

We’re looking for a part-time Instructional Designer based in Calgary who can work closely with our Education team and subject matter experts to build engaging, project-based courses for learners ages 13–18.

As a part-time Instructional Designer, you’ll have the opportunity to take courses from idea to classroom.

The programs you create will become part of Circuit Stream’s 2027 Pre-University catalogue, delivered to students across Canada and the U.S. both in person and online.

This isn’t a role where you’ll spend months producing theoretical curriculum documents that never leave a shared drive. You’ll translate subject-matter expertise into practical learning experiences that instructors can teach and teenagers actually want to participate in.

You’ll have meaningful ownership over the development of approximately 4-5 new courses, while seeing your work tested, taught, improved, and ultimately experienced by real students.

• Own the instructional design and development of new Pre-University courses for learners ages 13–18.
• Translate course concepts and subject-matter expertise into clear learning objectives, lesson plans, activities, assessments, projects, and instructor guides.
• Design hands-on, highly interactive learning experiences rather than lecture-heavy curriculum.
• Build courses around measurable learning outcomes and ensure activities and assessments clearly support those outcomes.
• Work closely with internal and external subject matter experts to turn specialist knowledge into content that is accessible and engaging for teenagers.
• Scope course content appropriately so it is ambitious enough to be meaningful but realistic for the learner age, course length, and delivery format.
• Develop and improve curriculum for in-person, live online, and blended delivery.
• Build meaningful projects and capstone experiences that allow students to apply what they have learned.
• Create clear instructor-facing materials that make the curriculum easy to understand, prepare, and teach consistently.
• Support instructor onboarding and training, including curriculum walkthroughs, teaching expectations, instructor guides, and learning-management-system tools.
• Conduct classroom audits and quality-assurance reviews to evaluate how effectively curriculum is being delivered.
• Gather feedback from instructors, students, and the Education team and use it to continuously improve course content.
• Maintain curriculum materials in our learning systems and ensure content is accurate, organized, current, and ready for delivery.
• Manage multiple course-development projects simultaneously and keep work moving against clear timelines and launch dates.

• 3+ years of professional experience in instructional design, curriculum development, learning experience design, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing courses or structured learning programs for youth or teen learners.
• Strong understanding of learning theory, instructional design, pedagogy, assessment, and age-appropriate learning principles.
• Experience translating subject-matter expertise into structured, learner-friendly curriculum.
• Strong ability to write measurable learning objectives and design activities…