Curriculum Developer and/or Instructor

Job Description

Job Description

Building Decarbonization Curriculum Developer and/or Instructor

About The Green Launchpad

The Green Launchpad is an innovative “think-and-do tank” dedicated to building a more inclusive and effective clean energy workforce ecosystem. We partner with mission-aligned organizations to design and launch strategic initiatives that create pathways to clean energy careers. We run capacity building training programs for the workforce sector to better understand the clean energy sector, and we convene clean energy employers to articulate their workforce needs. As a lean and growing startup, we are nimble, impact-focused, and passionate about our work.

The Role

A clean energy think-and-do tank, operating as a lean, mission-driven startup, is launching a multi-year training program for the people who make decisions about multifamily buildings across New York City: board members, building owners, property managers, and residents of condos and co-ops. The program teaches people who are not engineers, and who can often spare only a few hours a week, enough knowledge and confidence to guide a decarbonization project from start to finish.

The engagement has two tracks, and you can take on one or both. Track A is curriculum development, front-loaded in the build phase with ongoing refresh work throughout. Track B is live instruction and facilitation, ramping up at launch and running steadily across the contract term. The curriculum itself is split into two tiers: a short introductory seminar (roughly one to two hours) focused on practical energy efficiency basics, and a deeper course (roughly twelve to eighteen hours) built around a structured decarbonization planning process, delivered in cohorts of ten to fifteen participants.

This is a contractor engagement, scoped by phase with hours agreed in advance. Some evening and occasional weekend availability is required, because the participants are volunteers with day jobs. Anticipated start: Fall 2026 (likely September or October 2026)

What This Role Is, and Is Not

This role is:

• A chance to build and deliver training for people who genuinely need it, on a topic that is consequential for New York City's housing stock and climate goals

• Part curriculum design, part facilitation, part coaching, depending on which track you take on

• Grounded in real buildings and real decisions, not abstract theory

• A multi-year engagement with a small, focused team that moves quickly and takes its work seriously

• Flexible in structure, with the scope of each phase agreed in advance

This role is NOT:

• A full-time staff position (this is an independent contractor engagement)

• A lecture series for technically sophisticated audiences; your participants are volunteers, not engineers

• A finished product handed to you to deliver; the curriculum is a living document and instructors are expected to contribute to its improvement

• A fit if you need a rigid, predictable weekly schedule across the full term

• Right for someone who wants to stay firmly in their lane between teaching and content; the expectation is that both tracks inform each other

Required Experience & Traits

• Demonstrated experience training or advising non-technical adult audiences on building energy topics, such as board members, building staff, owners, or residents

• Ability to translate technical content accurately without oversimplifying it or burying people in jargon

• Conversant across most of the following, and strong in several: NYC building performance and emissions law (including Local Law 97 and benchmarking), multifamily building governance and financing, NYSERDA and Con Edison rebate programs, energy audits, heating and hot water equipment decisions, contractor scoping and procurement, and building decarbonization trade-offs broadly

• Strong facilitation skills for both virtual and in-person settings, including the ability to hold a room with participants who arrive with very different levels of knowledge

• For Track A: curriculum design experience, including developing assessments, facilitator guides, and participant materials

• For Track B: a track record of leading live sessions, webinars, or office hours with real-time Q&A and working sessions

• Based in or able to travel within the New York City area for in-person sessions

• Reliable and responsive; cohorts run on a calendar, and participants are giving up their evenings

Key ResponsibilitiesCurriculum Development (Track A)

• Research existing building-focused trainings, toolkits, case studies, and industry reports to build on what already exists rather than duplicate it

• Develop both the introductory resident curriculum and the modular in-depth course, along with accompanying materials such as workbooks, quizzes, one-pagers, and take-home resource guides

• Build facilitator guides and instructor notes so the curriculum can be delivered by someone other than its author, and deliver a train-the-trainer course if needed

• Design a pre/post confidence-and-competency assessment that produces a defensible outcome metric for client reporting, and work with the internal learning team to set up and manage the LMS

Instruction and Facilitation (Track B)

• Deliver live introductory seminars and in-depth cohort sessions, both virtually and in person across New York City

• Facilitate working sessions where participants apply the material to their own building's actual energy and decarbonization data, functioning as a coach as much as an instructor

• Field the practical questions that come up in the room: what does this mean for my building, what does it cost, who do I hire, what happens if we do nothing

• Offer office hours and working sessions to support participants with scenarios specific to their building

Curriculum Improvement and Team Coordination

• Give structured feedback to the curriculum team on what is landing and what is not, so the content improves across cohorts

• Prepare and review materials in advance of each session, complete pre- and post-assessments yourself to guide learners, and coordinate with the Program Manager and Teaching Assistant on logistics, grading, and attendance

• Bring ideas for curriculum improvements through the review process before use in a live cohort

Compensation

• $75 to $85 per hour, depending on experience and which track(s) you take on; live instruction and facilitation sits at the upper end of the range

• Independent contractor engagement, with hours scoped and agreed in advance by phase

• Preparation time outside classroom hours is compensated as part of the engagement

• Multi-year term, with extension potential

• Location: New York City (hybrid — remote with in-person sessions)

To Apply: Please send your application to View email address on us.fitly.work with the subject line: “SME — Curriculum – [Your Name],""SME — Instruction – [Your Name],” or “SME – Curriculum & Instruction – [Your Name]”. 

Please attach your resume and a cover letter. In the cover letter, tell us which track interests you, what your typical weekly availability looks like, and describe a time you explained something technical to an audience that had no background in it. If you have sample materials or a recording of a session you have led, we would like to see it.

What Comes Next: If we identify a fit with the position, we will reach out to you to schedule an interview.