The Lead Instructor owns the intellectual direction, curriculum quality, and instructional standards of the program. This role ensures the system is coherent, rigorous, and aligned with real-world expectations before anything reaches learners.
📍 Amman, JordanAsync-first role4–6 hrs/week pre-program8–10 hrs/week in-sessionLive only when teaching
Review curriculum drafts, guide structure, and establish standards before the cohort begins.
8–10
In-session hrs / week
High-leverage oversight during delivery: approvals, guidance, live concept sessions, and escalation support.
Async
Primary working mode
Most work is flexible and self-directed, with live participation only when leading designated sessions.
Final
Academic authority
This role holds final instructional and academic judgment across curriculum quality and standards.
Instructional system
Where you sit
The program operates across three instructional layers. The Lead Instructor defines standards and approves direction. Support Instructors own applied execution. TAs handle daily support, grading workflows, and risk visibility.
Lead Instructor ← you
Owns curriculum direction, instructional standards, module approval, guest-speaker coordination, and final academic judgment
Support Instructors
Own applied execution, live labs, TA supervision, grading oversight, and learner readiness enforcement
Teaching Assistants
Provide daily learner support, first-pass grading, dashboard monitoring, and early risk detection
You hold authority over
Curriculum structure and sequencing
Final academic judgment
Instructional standards and rigor
Approval of all modules before release
You do not own
Routine lab delivery
TA management and daily supervision
Day-to-day learner support
Routine first-pass grading workflows
Curriculum system
Module approval pipeline
The Lead Instructor is the first formal approval gate. Support Instructors and TAs review after Lead approval, not before. This preserves coherence, authority, and consistent standards across the program.
Step 1
Draft & prepare
Curriculum materials are developed and prepared for review, including module structure, assignments, flow, technical assumptions, and delivery plans.
Step 2
Lead review & approval
You review for sequencing, clarity, rigor, coherence, and alignment with real-world expectations. Nothing moves forward until you approve it.
Step 3
Team review
After Lead approval, Support Instructors and TAs test, validate, and provide implementation feedback before delivery readiness is finalized.
No module reaches the instructional team for formal downstream review without Lead Instructor approval.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
This role is high-leverage and selective. You are responsible for direction, standards, approvals, and strategic instructional guidance rather than routine execution work.
Curriculum leadership
Shape the program
Guide overall curriculum structure and sequencing across the full program
Review all modules before release to the broader instructional team
Ensure alignment between learning objectives, assignments, and intended learner outcomes
Maintain coherence between shared foundations, specialization tracks, and capstone expectations
Instructional direction
Set the standard
Define standards for labs, assignments, grading philosophy, and technical rigor
Ensure the program remains grounded in real-world practice and role-relevant expectations
Provide guidance to Support Instructors when instructional trade-offs or escalation decisions appear
Protect consistency across tracks, speakers, and module authorship
Core concept sessions
Teach selectively
Lead or host core concept sessions when strategically useful for the cohort
Coordinate guest speakers for key topics where specialist depth adds value
Ensure conceptual clarity and continuity across any live online teaching moments
Use live sessions intentionally, not as routine delivery obligations
Team guidance
Be the escalation point
Serve as the instructional guide for team questions that require judgment, authority, or deeper curriculum context
Answer questions asynchronously whenever possible
Unblock ambiguous decisions for Support Instructors and program leadership
Adjust direction when feedback reveals curriculum or delivery issues
Quality control
Catch issues early
Identify weak sequencing, unclear instructions, or mismatched difficulty before learners experience them
Review high-level patterns in instructional feedback and intervene when standards drift
Ensure the curriculum remains technically defensible and professionally credible
Protect the integrity of the learning experience across the full lifecycle
RigorCoherenceStandardsApproval
Operating model
Async-first by design
Most work is asynchronous and self-directed
Feedback, approvals, and team guidance can be delivered on a flexible schedule
Join live only when teaching or hosting core concept sessions, or when a true escalation requires discussion
This role is built for judgment, not clock time
Async-firstFlexible scheduleHigh leverage
Working model
How the role works
This role is intentionally built for flexibility. The Lead Instructor is expected to deliver strong judgment, clear written feedback, and fast directional clarity — not fixed office-hour presence.
Async-first
Flexible but authoritative
Review materials, leave comments, approve modules, and answer instructional questions on a flexible schedule
Operate primarily through written feedback, async updates, and scheduled check-ins as needed
Maintain visibility without requiring constant synchronous presence
Prioritize clarity, decisiveness, and speed of judgment over time spent online
Live participation
Only when intentional
Lead live online sessions only when teaching or hosting designated core concept sessions
Join syncs when a question requires real-time instructional judgment
Avoid unnecessary live attendance in routine execution workflows
Weekly rhythm
What your week looks like
The role is not tied to rigid daily blocks. Instead, it follows a recurring rhythm of review, approvals, selective live participation, and directional guidance.
Focus
Mode
Key actions
Pre-program
Async
Review curriculum structure, guide module quality, provide written feedback, and establish standards before launch
In-session
Async-first
Approve upcoming materials, answer team questions, review patterns in feedback, and maintain instructional coherence
Selective live
Online
Lead or host core concept sessions, coordinate guest speakers, or join escalations that require synchronous instructional judgment
As needed
Advisory
Provide directional clarity to Support Instructors, unblock team decisions, and protect standards when ambiguity appears
This is a high-leverage role. The expectation is not constant presence. The expectation is consistent judgment, strong approvals, and fast, clear instructional leadership.
Qualifications
What you bring
This role requires senior instructional judgment, technical credibility, and the ability to hold quality standards across a complex multi-layer delivery model. The right person is decisive, clear, and comfortable leading through guidance rather than routine execution.
Required
Core qualifications
Strong experience designing, reviewing, or leading technical curriculum in a hands-on training environment
Ability to assess module quality for sequencing, clarity, difficulty, instructional coherence, and real-world relevance
Credibility across technical instruction, not just subject-matter knowledge in isolation
Ability to guide instructional teams through written feedback, directional clarity, and sound judgment
Comfort acting as the final instructional decision-maker when ambiguity or trade-offs arise
Strong written communication and async collaboration habits
Decisive — you can make high-quality calls without overprocessing
Structured — you see where sequence, scope, or delivery logic breaks down
Credible — the team trusts your judgment because it is grounded and consistent
Flexible — you can work asynchronously without losing visibility or responsiveness
Selective — you know when to step in live and when written guidance is enough
Calm — you improve the system without becoming the bottleneck
The best Lead Instructor is not the busiest person in the system. They are the clearest, most trusted, and most consistently right.
Outcome
What excellence looks like
When this role is working well, the entire system becomes more coherent, more confident, and more resilient before learners ever feel the difference.
Curriculum quality
The program holds together
The curriculum flows cleanly and builds logically
Modules are clear, rigorous, and aligned to intended outcomes
Weak sequencing and unclear instructions are caught before release
Instructional confidence
The team can move
Support Instructors operate with clarity and confidence
TAs are not absorbing ambiguity from upstream decisions
Questions are resolved quickly without the Lead becoming a bottleneck
Excellence here means learners experience a program that feels intentional, credible, and well-run — because the system was guided correctly long before delivery day.