Ascendium Education Group has partnered with The QTI Group to hire a temporary Senior Writer. Ascendium Education Group is a nonprofit on a mission to make postsecondary education and training a reality for learners from low‑income backgrounds. Through student loan guarantee services, success and financial wellness programs, strategic grantmaking, and impact investments, they remove educational barriers and empower learners to build better futures.
In this role, you’ll craft concise, human-centered content that is supportive, practical, and rooted in research-backed best practices. Working closely with the content strategist, you’ll create original lessons that meet learners where they are and help them move through real barriers with confidence. If you’re energized by purposeful storytelling, rapid iteration, and creating tools that help students succeed, this role offers a chance to make a meaningful impact while building something new.
This position is a temporary assignment estimated at 3-6 months. Full-time with core hours 8am-5pm with some flexibility. Pay starts at $38+/hr. depending on experience.
Responsibilities:
- Draft original lessons, including intros, core content, quizzes, reflections, transitions, and outros, as well as learner-facing emails and notifications.
- Write in a warm, approachable voice, adjusting tone by topic, and follow brand voice and tone guidelines.
- Produce clear, concise, mobile-friendly content adhering to formatting, reading-level, and UI standards.
- Ensure lessons support learning goals and fit within the broader curriculum, maintaining continuity across content.
- Follow the full content creation and review process, collaborating with Designers, Content Strategists, and subject-matter experts, and prepare final handoff-ready copy.
- Support CMS implementation by preparing copy for upload, formatting interactive lesson components, and reviewing content rendering for accuracy and user flow.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience writing educational, behavioral, or student-support content for digital or mobile learning.
- Ability to translate complex academic, financial, and well-being topics into clear, empathetic, research-aligned content at a 9th-grade reading level.
- Demonstrated ability to write in a natural, human, and relatable voice for a college-age or young adult audience, with samples that reflect this style, is required.
- Proven skill in short-form instructional writing, including intros, screens, quizzes, reflections, and character-driven narratives.
- Mastery of a warm, approachable voice that builds trust and supports learner agency.
- Strong editorial judgment and experience with mobile-friendly content structures, tone shifts, and formatting best practices.
- Collaborative approach to working with curriculum, research, and product teams.
- Willingness to complete a background check and seven-year employment verification upon offer.
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