Alchemy seeks a Subject Matter Expert in Business Ethics for online course design, focusing on content generation, curriculum validation, and assessment alignment, working closely with an instructional design team.
Role Overview
Alchemy is seeking an experienced Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Management and Leadership Instruction to support the design and development of a non-credit online course.
The SME will collaborate closely with Alchemy's instructional design team and the client's academic leadership to create content for a non-credit course entitled Fundamentals of Business Ethics.
This is a consulting/contract role focused on course design, content creation and validation, and assessment alignment — not day-to-day instruction.
Primary Responsibilities- Serve as the content-generating and reviewing authority for lessons, assessments, activities, and resources for the course.
- Collaborate with instructional designers to define course-level learning outcomes, competencies, and scope.
- Validate curriculum structure, sequencing, and instructional content for accuracy and relevance.
- Review and validate assessments, including knowledge checks, performance-based assessments, and capstone requirements.
- Participate in structured design reviews, working sessions, and milestone approvals.
- Graduate-level degree in business, management, or leadership.
- Experience teaching workforce-training, undergraduate, or graduate courses in leadership or management (specific experience teaching courses in business ethics preferred).
- Experience contributing to academic programs, workforce training, or continuing education.
- Experience creating or reviewing content, assessments, activities, and resources for online or in-person learning courses.
- Experience working with instructional designers or academic institutions.
- Understanding of competency-based education or outcomes-based training models.
- Deep, current knowledge of concepts in management and leadership.
- Ability to translate real-world situations into teachable competencies.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with instructional designers.
- Attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Professional judgment to balance educational rigor with feasibility.
- Contract/project-based engagement.
- Expect at least one weekly working session with the assigned Instructional Designer, plus independent content development time between sessions.
- Remote collaboration with periodic structured working sessions.
- SME is expected to produce content independently; Alchemy's instructional design team supports content development.
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