Curriculum Development Specialist - Organizational Resilience (Contract) presso MARYHURST INC.

Description

The purpose of this contract is to engage a highly skilled professional with expertise in trauma resilience, organizational health, and well-being to co-develop and finalize a comprehensive two-tier curriculum focused on fostering trauma-resilient community culture and enhancing organizational health.

This curriculum will equip human service organizations, particularly those working in communities impacted by violence, poverty, and suicide intervention with the knowledge, structure, and tools to embed trauma-informed, healing-centered practices across individual, team, and systemic levels.

The curriculum consists of 2-tier training model:

• Tier 1 – Leadership & Organizational Strategy: Advanced training for organizational leaders who are responsible for implementing, modeling, and sustaining trauma-informed practices, focusing on leadership and organizational strategies for fostering resilience, psychological safety, and healing in a professional setting.
• Tier 2 – Foundational & Community Application: Foundational training for all other participants (community members, families, youth, and staff), focusing on fundamental concepts of trauma awareness, resilience-building strategies, and the importance of emotional and physical safety within communities. Emphasis and lens is placed on suicide prevention and violence prevention through empowerment, engagement, collaboration, and advocacy. 

The Contractor will serve as a key content creation/writing expert, working collaboratively with another Curriculum Development Specialist in Community Resilience to: 

1. Develop curriculum content for both tiers based on the established framework, ensuring content aligns with trauma resilience and organizational health principles.
2. Translate theory into practice by turning trauma resilience, organizational health, and healing-centered models into actionable, accessible learning modules.
3. Design comprehensive materials including facilitator guides, participant handouts, exercises, and supplemental tools tailored for human service and community-based audiences.
4. Create assessments and evaluation tools such as pre/post tests, rubrics, and reflection instruments to measure knowledge retention, behavioral change, and overall impact.
5. Embed cultural humility and equity-centered practices throughout all curriculum components to ensure relevance and inclusion across diverse populations.
6. Incorporate real-world application through evidence-based case studies, activities, and simulations that promote skill-building and critical thinking.
7. Collaborate with peer reviewers and partner agencies to refine tone, accessibility, and alignment with learning goals.
8. Contribute written resources such as best practice summaries, models, and reference materials that enhance curriculum depth and usability.
9. Inform implementation strategies for staff engagement, trust-building, and sustaining trauma-informed leadership practices within organizations.
10. Participate in iterative review and co-design sessions, integrating peer feedback and ensuring all materials meet learning and evaluation standards.
11. Finalize deliverables including polished curriculum content, facilitator and participant materials, assessments, and implementation guidance.

Required Expertise:

1. Demonstrated experience in trauma-informed care, resilience-building, and organizational health
2. Proven ability to translate complex theory into clear, accessible, and actionable curriculum content.
3. Strong background in curriculum writing and instructional design, including developing facilitator guides, participant materials, and assessment tools.
4. Experience creating learning objectives, outcome measures, and applied exercises that align with adult learning principles and measurable outcomes.
5. Knowledge of cultural humility, psychological safety, and healing-centered engagement
6. Familiarity with program design, evaluation methods, and capacity-building initiatives within human services or related systems.
7. Demonstrated ability to co-develop materials collaboratively, integrating peer and stakeholder feedback into revisions and final drafts.
8. Strong writing, editing, and organization skills with attention to flow, readability, and tone across varied audiences (leadership, staff, community).
9. Proficiency with project management tools or collaborative writing platforms (e.g., SharePoint, Excel) to manage content workflows and versioning.

The contractor shall be compensated at an (hourly based) rate for services rendered. The specific services and their corresponding rates are as follows: $81.25 per hour, not to exceed $650 per day. 

The Services are to be performed at the following location and type:

This engagement will be conducted in a hybrid format, primarily through remote collaboration supported by scheduled virtual meetings and feedback sessions. In-person meetings may be arranged, as needed, for contractors located within reasonable driving distance or when doing so would enhance collaboration and the overall learning experience.

Primary address of business operations is:

1015 Dorsey Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40223

Contract period: 11/1/2025 – 4/30/2026 

Projected # of hours: 530 hours over 5 months