[Hiring] Digital Curriculum Manager @CollegeSpring

Role Description

The Digital Curriculum Manager of ELAR leads the vision, design, and execution of high-quality digital curriculum that equips teachers and students for success on college readiness assessments and beyond. This role balances strategy and hands-on leadership, driving the subject-area tactical roadmap, overseeing the development of innovative lessons and assessments, and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, the Manager stewards content quality, equity, and usability, grounding decisions in research, student data, and evolving educational trends. As both a people leader and subject matter expert, this role guides a team of staff and contractors, fosters collaboration across subject lines, and represents CollegeSpring externally as a thought leader in equitable test preparation and ELAR education.

What You'll Do

• Curriculum Strategy & Development: Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of high-quality ELAR digital curriculum aligned to college readiness assessments and instructional best practices.
• Tactical Roadmap: Shape and execute the ELAR-specific product roadmap, ensuring alignment with the organization's Annual Strategic Initiatives and priorities.
• Content Development & Lifecycle Ownership: Lead the end-to-end development of ELAR curriculum products—from initial concept and scoping through authoring, review, QA, LMS integration, and final delivery—including lessons, assessments, practice items, passages, supplementary units, and teacher guides grounded in research and student data.
• Scope & Sequence: Develop and maintain comprehensive scope and sequences at the program and lesson level, supporting instruction across multiple performance levels and partner contexts.
• Quality Assurance: Lead QA cycles, including content reviews, standards alignment, end-to-end testing, and resolution of issues surfaced through partner feedback and product reporting.

• Content Management & Operations: Ensure all ELAR content is organized, accurate, accessible, and continuously refined to meet organizational and partner needs.
• Differentiation & Accessibility: Ensure all content includes embedded differentiation and accommodations, and that all digital content meets WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards.
• Standards & Brand Alignment: Maintain alignment across all materials to CollegeSpring's pedagogy, organizational standards, and branding.
• Asset Management: Oversee organization of all digital files, standards mappings, and version control to ensure accuracy and accessibility of content assets.
• Project Management: Track progress, benchmarks, and milestones across multiple curriculum workstreams to meet ambitious timelines.

• People Leadership & Collaboration: Lead and develop a team of curriculum contributors while serving as a cross-functional partner across the organization.
• Team Leadership: Directly manage Digital Curriculum Specialists and Senior Specialists, setting clear expectations, providing coaching, and supporting professional growth.
• Contractor Management: Onboard, direct, and quality-assure the work of contractors and freelance contributors.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as the primary ELAR curriculum representative in planning with the Partner Success Team, Marketing, Data, and Senior Leadership, translating organizational priorities into actionable content decisions.
• Data Collaboration: Partner with the Data team to identify curriculum needs and use insights to refine products and inform iteration.

• Research & Field Engagement: Stay current in the field and represent CollegeSpring as an ELAR subject matter expert.
• Trend Monitoring: Maintain awareness of national and state-level trends in ELAR instruction, assessment policy, college readiness, and educational technology to inform product strategy.
• Thought Leadership: Stay current on ELAR and test-prep research and contribute to internal knowledge-sharing.

Qualifications

• Communication: Comfortable drafting communication in others' voices and anticipating questions and needs of audiences.
• Problem Solving: Able to leverage others' thoughts and expertise to collaboratively problem-solve.
• Relationships: Anticipate the needs of people and respond empathetically to stakeholders.
• Data Analysis: Interpret numbers, reports, data, and trends to inform decisions and program improvements.
• Collaboration: Manage conflict and debate while maintaining accountability in collaborative processes.
• Project Management: Strong command of stakeholder roles in project completion and ability to manage projects in a timely manner.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years of experience in ELAR curriculum development, instructional design, or a related field, with demonstrated impact on student outcomes.
• 2+ years of ELAR instructional experience (grades 6-12) in a classroom, coaching, or curriculum-facing role.
• Familiarity with standardized assessments and test-prep curriculum, such as the SAT®, ACT®, or TSIA2.
• Demonstrated success managing curriculum portfolios and leading cross-functional projects from design through delivery.
• Deep knowledge of ELAR pedagogy, college and career readiness standards, and assessment design.
• Proficiency in Google Workspace and experience working within a Learning Management System (LMS) or digital learning platform.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously and meet deadlines.
• Commitment to educational equity and a belief that all students can achieve at high levels.
• Familiarity with AI-enhanced curriculum tools or adaptive content design.
• Experience managing contractors or leading a small team.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Educational Technology, Curriculum Design, Learning Design, or Educational Leadership.
• Certifications in curriculum design, instructional coaching, or related fields.
• Project management certification (PMP, CSM, or CAPM).

Benefits

• Salary range: $73,000-$91,000, with final offer dependent on qualifications and internal equity.
• Generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurances.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer match.
• 32 paid days of office closures.
• 15 days PTO in your first year.
• 5 sick days.
• 2 paid days to volunteer in your community.
• Inclusive paid family leave.
• Annual work from home reimbursement.