Have you ever thought there was a better way to learn and master a subject?
This is your chance to prove it. As Contour Education launches in New South Wales, we are hiring a State Subject Curriculum Lead for Physics: the person who owns the source of truth for how the subject is learned at Contour. You bring your vision of the subject, and we give you the platform to turn it into a real, tangible course that will shape how hundreds, then thousands, of students learn and think.
Our mission is reshaping education, and this role is where that actually happens. You make the strategic calls on curriculum, sequencing, and assessment preparation, then direct what gets built from them, reporting directly to the national Head of Subject. Rather than writing every question yourself, you steer content production and act as the quality gate, building a compounding body of knowledge from the ground up.
This isn’t a marking-and-admin role. It is a founding, remote/hybrid, part-time position (8-10 hours per week) with complete strategic ownership of your subject in NSW. You take a blank page and turn NESA guidelines into a premium, state-specific programme built to scale.
Love teaching as much as designing? This role pairs naturally with our HSC Physics Tutor position (in-person, Sydney). You can apply for both simultaneously, and many of our best leads do exactly that. The remote flexibility applies to the Curriculum Lead work; tutoring happens on campus.
Contour was founded in 2020 by students who saw that the quality of your education was basically a lottery. Teachers stretched thin by the system, learning materials that varied from school to school, and support that stopped the moment you left the classroom.
We began with 5 students in a room. Today 15,000+ students have trusted Contour as their academic partners, and we've grown to 500+ team members across 10 campuses in Australia. In 2025 we ranked #8 on the AFR Fast 100 of fastest-growing companies.
We've produced hundreds of 99+ ATARs, tutored the world-record UCAT scorer, and placed 850+ students into medical and dental schools across Australia.
Contour is made up of three brands:
- Contour Education → academic performance in high school
- Contour MedPrep → entry into medical and dental schools
- Contour TestPrep → entry into selective and scholarship schools
Contour is built by students, for students.
As our State Subject Curriculum Lead, you’ll own the educational source of truth for Physics across NSW and strategically direct everything built from it.
- Map: Build and maintain the curriculum source of truth for your subject, mapping out NESA syllabuses, recurring exam questions, and common student pitfalls.
- Pace: Translate curriculum insights into live topic sequencing, question-type maps, and school-specific workshops kept 1-2 weeks ahead of local classrooms.
- Support: Design the targeted materials and support systems students need to conquer internal assessments, optimise their school ranks, and ace the HSC.
- Direct: Plan educational resources upstream from the source of truth, briefing and steering Resource Developers so production never bottlenecks on you.
- Govern: Act as the final quality gate, signing off on all subject materials with absolute polish while continuously pushing curriculum innovation.
You qualify through either pathway:
- As a top graduate: 98+ ATAR with a Band 6 in HSC Physics. State ranks are ideal, but not compulsory.
- Or as an experienced teacher: you have taught HSC Physics at a school. If you’ve taught it, you don’t need the ATAR or band requirements above.
And in either case:
- Deep curriculum expertise and strong opinions on how the subject is sequenced, taught, and examined under NESA.
- Excellent documentation skills with a focus on building durable, written educational frameworks.
- Uncompromising attention to detail with an obsession for error-free work and polished formatting.
- High operational bandwidth to hit tight production deadlines and patch issues proactively.
- Comfort using modern software and AI tooling to accelerate documentation and drafting on top of your own craft (preferred).
- Alignment with Contour’s student-first mission and a passion for reshaping education.
- Reshape How a State Learns: Your curriculum decisions become the course itself. Every sequencing call, every assessment strategy, every standard you set reaches real classrooms and real students from day one.
- Founding Role in NSW: Lead the charge in our newest state with our very first HSC cohort. Create an entire curriculum from the ground up rather than inherit one.
- Ownership & Autonomy: Freedom and trust to run the state’s curriculum your way, working directly with the national Head of Subject. No bureaucracy, no committees.
- Remote/Hybrid & Flexible: Work from wherever suits you, part-time, on a schedule that fits around your degree, teaching load, or career. We value your output, not the hours you clock.
- Elite Brand & Real Benefits: Join an organisation ranked #8 on the AFR Fast 100 in 2025 (our fourth consecutive year on the AFR lists), with an EAP, birthday/loyalty leave, lifestyle allowances, and covered subscriptions to Netflix, Spotify, Apple Music, Uber One, and Amazon Prime.
- Salary: $100,000 - $120,000 full-time equivalent + super, pro-rated to part-time hours
If you care about reshaping education and empowering the next generation of students, we'd love to hear from you.
- Submit your written application (CV and study scores)
- Complete a technical assessment using resources we provide
- Attend an interview, which includes Q&A and a live technical exercise
The course you design here is the one a whole state of students will learn from. That’s the bar.
