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Ascension LLC is seeking a Training, Curriculum, and Tribal Learning Specialist to support a national technical assistance and capacity-building effort for Tribal victim services programs serving American Indian and Alaska Native communities. This role is central to helping grant recipients strengthen their ability to administer OVC-funded victim services programs, understand federal award compliance expectations, and access practical learning tools that support sustainable, culturally responsive, trauma-informed service delivery.

The ideal candidate is an experienced curriculum developer and adult learning professional who can translate complex program, compliance, and victim services content into clear, useful, modular learning products. This person should be comfortable working with subject matter experts, Tribal partners, program staff, communications teams, and federal stakeholders to develop training materials, webinars, instructional toolkits, facilitator guides, peer-learning resources, and practical job aids for beginning, intermediate, and advanced audiences. The SOW specifically requires development of training materials, tools, webinars, curricula, resources, outreach support, and event logistics support for Tribal grant recipients.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Training, Curriculum, and Tribal Learning Specialist will design, develop, update, and support delivery of training content and learning resources that help Tribal grant recipients build programmatic capacity, improve compliance with OVC award requirements, and strengthen victim services programs. The role requires a detail-oriented, organized, culturally aware learning professional who can work in an environment where needs may vary by community, program maturity, geography, internet access, and subject matter complexity.

This position will support the development of curricula, modular content, classroom and distance-learning materials, instructional toolkits, fact sheets, infographics, facilitator guides, learning activities, registration and outreach materials, and post-training evaluation tools. The Specialist will also help ensure that training content reflects adult learning principles, recognizes AI/AN learning preferences, and is accessible to rural and remote audiences with varying connectivity. The RFI emphasizes technology-enabled learning, adult learning principles, and the need to serve AI/AN audiences across rural environments.

The ideal candidate should be self-driven, highly organized, comfortable coordinating with multiple SMEs, and able to convert policy, compliance, and programmatic guidance into plain-language learning products. Experience with Tribal communities, victim services, federal grants, compliance assistance, or trauma-informed service delivery is strongly preferred.

Position’s Day-to-Day Activities

The Training, Curriculum, and Tribal Learning Specialist will be expected to:

• Develop curricula, modular training content, toolkits, webinars, facilitator guides, participant guides, job aids, learning activities, and reference materials for Tribal victim services grant recipients.
• Design learning products for beginner, intermediate, and advanced audiences based on grant recipient knowledge levels, program maturity, and compliance needs.
• Translate complex federal grant, compliance, and victim services topics into plain-language, practical learning materials.
• Coordinate with subject matter experts to integrate real-world victim services, Tribal program, grant compliance, and culturally responsive practice knowledge into training content.
• Review existing DOJ, OVC, federal, and partner-developed materials to identify content that can be reused, adapted, updated, or expanded without duplicating existing resources.
• Support development of training materials related to policies and procedures, victim advocacy programs, transitional housing programs, domestic violence shelter programs, child advocacy centers, elder abuse programs, community needs assessments, strategic plans, information management plans, MMIP family supports, and related program tools.
• Create webinar materials, slide decks, exercises, polls, reflection questions, resource guides, checklists, and evaluation instruments for virtual and in-person learning events.
• Apply adult learning principles, trauma-informed approaches, accessibility practices, and culturally responsive learning strategies in all learning products.
• Assist with outreach content that promotes webinars, trainings, tools, and compliance assistance resources through clear, timely, plain-language communications.
• Support logistics and content preparation for virtual and in-person trainings, consultations, listening sessions, roundtables, site visits, and peer-learning events.
• Develop post-training surveys, feedback tools, and summary reports that capture participant satisfaction, learning outcomes, and recommended improvements.
• Maintain version control, file organization, naming conventions, and quality checks for curriculum and resource development products.
• Collaborate with program managers, compliance assistance staff, communications specialists, event staff, and technology support personnel to ensure training products are accurate, accessible, and ready for delivery.
• Contribute to annual reporting by documenting training products developed, training activities supported, evaluation findings, lessons learned, and recommended improvements.