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Higher Education Careers

Explore 11 career paths in the Higher Education industry. Compare salaries, AI risk, and future demand to plan your career transition.

11 Roles
8.8 Avg Demand
21% Avg AI Risk
11 Remote-Friendly
AI Education & Training Intermediate

AI Course Content Generator

An AI Course Content Generator designs, creates, and iterates on educational materials-courses, tutorials, labs, assessments, and …

Demand 9.0/10
AI Risk 35%
Salary $75,000-$140,000/yr
Instructional design (ADDIE, Bloom's Taxonomy, backward design)Generative AI prompt engineering for content ideation and draftingPython programming for code examples and lab designCurriculum mapping and learning objective alignment +8
Remote Requires Coding 6mo
AI Education & Training Advanced

AI Coding Education Specialist

An AI Coding Education Specialist designs and delivers curriculum that teaches developers, students, and professionals how to buil…

Demand 9.0/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $85,000-$175,000/yr
Proficiency in at least two programming languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript) with production experienceHands-on mastery of AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codeium, Amazon CodeWhisperer)Prompt engineering and LLM interaction design for code generation tasksCurriculum and instructional design - backward design, learning objectives, scaffolded exercises +8
Remote Requires Coding 8mo
AI Education & Training Advanced

AI Higher Education AI Strategist

An AI Higher Education AI Strategist architects the institutional vision, policies, and implementation roadmaps that enable univer…

Demand 9.0/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $95,000-$185,000/yr
Strategic AI roadmap development for multi-stakeholder academic institutionsAI literacy curriculum design across undergraduate, graduate, and faculty development programsGenerative AI evaluation and prompt engineering for educational use casesAI governance, ethics, and academic integrity policy drafting +8
Remote Requires Coding 9mo
AI Education & Training Intermediate

AI Learning Analytics Specialist

An AI Learning Analytics Specialist leverages machine learning models, LLM-powered pipelines, and behavioral data to measure, pred…

Demand 8.7/10
AI Risk 20%
Salary $85,000-$155,000/yr
Learning analytics framework design (xAPI, Caliper, SCORM data models)Statistical analysis and hypothesis testing for educational interventionsLLM prompt engineering for automated feedback and content taggingData pipeline orchestration (ETL for learner behavioral data) +8
Remote Requires Coding 8mo
AI Education & Training Intermediate

AI Student Performance Analyst

An AI Student Performance Analyst leverages machine learning models, learning analytics platforms, and AI-powered dashboards to tr…

Demand 8.7/10
AI Risk 25%
Salary $75,000-$135,000/yr
Learning analytics and educational data miningPredictive modeling for student outcomes (classification, survival analysis)Python data stack (pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn)SQL and data warehousing for LMS and SIS databases +8
Remote Requires Coding 6mo
AI Education & Training Intermediate

AI LMS Automation Specialist

An AI LMS Automation Specialist designs, deploys, and maintains intelligent automations within Learning Management Systems that pe…

Demand 8.7/10
AI Risk 20%
Salary $95,000-$165,000/yr
LMS architecture and administration (Canvas, Moodle, Docebo, Totara, TalentLMS)REST API integration and webhook orchestration across learning platformsLLM prompt engineering for educational content generation and assessmentPython scripting for automation pipelines and data transformation +8
Remote Requires Coding 6mo