Every learning journey in NextGen Education starts with words on a page. The right challenge. The right questions. The right sequence. The right balance between structure and freedom. The Curriculum Developer is the person who writes and structures the learning journeys themselves, making sure every session is grounded in research, age-appropriate, and aligned with European education frameworks.
What you will do
You write the learning journeys. Not lesson plans in the traditional sense, but structured sequences of sessions that guide children through real-world challenges in climate, technology, mental health, social change, and identity. You ensure that each journey builds skills progressively, supports cross-border collaboration, and gives teachers everything they need.
Specifically, you will:
- Write and structure learning journeys across the five core themes
- Ensure content is grounded in current research and pedagogical best practice
- Align journeys with European competence frameworks and key competences
- Design age-appropriate activities for the target age group
- Build in reflection, collaboration, and assessment moments
- Work with the implementation lead to refine journeys based on classroom feedback
What you bring
You have experience writing educational content. Curriculum materials, textbook content, structured learning programmes, or similar work. You understand how children learn. You know how to sequence activities so that understanding builds over time. You can write clearly, for both teachers and students.
A background in education, child development, or learning sciences is ideal. What matters most is that you can turn complex ideas into structured learning experiences that work for real children in real classrooms.
Why this matters
The learning journeys are the core of NextGen Education. They are what children actually experience. Every other part of the programme exists to support, deliver, or improve them. If the journeys are not excellent, nothing else matters. This is the role that determines the quality of everything children encounter.
What this looks like in practice
You work closely with the content and implementation lead, the strategy team, and subject matter experts. You write, you iterate, you respond to feedback from pilot classrooms. The work follows the Erasmus+ KA2 timeline, with intensive writing phases followed by testing and refinement cycles.
The role can be part-time or full-time depending on the phase. It is a role for someone who believes that what children learn about the world should be written with the same care and craft as the best books they will ever read.
Write learning that matters
If you have the skills to create structured, research-grounded learning experiences for children, we want to hear from you.