Digital Curriculum Manager

CollegeSpring, Inc.; Walnut Creek (CA); Remote; USD 73,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

403(b) with employer match

32 paid days of office closures

15 days PTO

5 sick days

Volunteer days (2)

Work from home reimbursement

Job summary

CollegeSpring is seeking a Digital Curriculum Senior Specialist/Manager for ELAR to lead the design, development, and delivery of high-quality digital ELAR content that supports college readiness assessments. This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on leadership, guiding a team of staff and contractors to ensure equity and instructional effectiveness.

You will shape the ELAR roadmap, manage content lifecycle from concept to delivery, and collaborate across departments to meet ambitious

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 5+ years in ELAR curriculum development.
• 2+ years of ELAR instructional experience (grades 6–12).
• Familiarity with standardized assessments (SAT, ACT, TSIA2).
• Strong knowledge of ELAR pedagogy and standards.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace and LMS/digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and continuous improvement of ELAR digital curriculum.
• Shape the ELAR product roadmap aligned to strategic initiatives.
• Oversee content QA, accessibility, differentiation, and branding.
• Manage contractors and a team of curriculum contributors.
• Collaborate with Partner Success, Marketing, Data, and Leadership.

Skills

ELAR curriculum design

Instructional design

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Equity & inclusion

AI-enabled curriculum tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Google Workspace

LMS experience

AI-enabled content tools

Job description

Digital Curriculum Senior Specialist / Manager, ELARSenior Specialist or Manager may be hired, dependent on candidate qualificationsABOUT USCollegeSpring is the only national nonprofit providing teacher-led test prep during the school day, helping students impacted by poverty unlock greater options after high school. For 16 years, we’ve partnered with school districts and organizations across the country to help more than 100,000 primarily first generation, economically disadvantaged, BIPOC students unlock opportunity through increased scores on gateway tests like the SAT, ACT, and TSIA2 (Texas Success Initiative Assessment). Today, we continue to expand by maximizing impact through larger district and nonprofit partnerships and harnessing the power of technology to better serve teachers and students.ABOUT THE ROLEThe 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 DOCurriculum 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: Staying current on ELAR and test-prep research and contributing to internal knowledge-sharing.HOW YOU’LL DO ITCommunication: You are comfortable drafting communication in other’s voices. You have the ability to anticipate questions and needs of audiences. You are able to leverage communication to inspire, influence, drive people to action, support decision making and build relationships. You have the ability to support others in building their communications skills.Problem Solving: You are able to leverage others thoughts and expertise in order to problem solve collaboratively and view an issue holistically. You are leaning in to the challenges as opportunities and proactively seeking out problems to solve. You are able to look at situations from multiple view points and identify potential pitfalls or challenges early on and provide possible solutions. You have the ability to support others in building their problem solving skills. You have the commitment to not resting on how things have always been done. You have the ability to experiment, fail fast, and iterate.Relationships: You are able to anticipate the needs of people and proactively act. You have the ability to respond to stakeholders in an empathetic and compassionate way that values the relationship. You build strong internal relationships. You have the ability to empathize and see others' perspectives.Data Analysis: You have the ability to interpret numbers, reports, data and trends and use that to inform decisions, program improvements and communication. You have the ability to find trends in data and translate those trends into strategic recommendations.Collaboration: You have an awareness of when to lean in and step back, when to leverage expertise of self and others. You have the ability to mine for and manage conflict and debate. You have a commitment to accountability in the process of collaboration. You have the ability to support others in their collaboration skills.Project Management: You have a strong command and management of stakeholder roles in project completion and sign off. You have the ability to prioritize communication of the project and work with broader stakeholder group as a part of overall project planning. You have the ability to manage up, down and across the organization. You have the ability to manage a project in a timely way that stays under budget. You have the ability to support others in their project management skills.Qualifications and SkillsRequiredBachelor’s degree5+ years of experience in ELAR curriculum development, instructional design, or a related field, with demonstrated impact on student outcomes2+ years of ELAR instructional experience (grades 6-12) in a classroom, coaching, or curriculum-facing roleFamiliarity with standardized assessments and test-prep curriculum, such as the SAT, ACT, or TSIA2Demonstrated success managing curriculum portfolios and leading cross-functional projects from design through deliveryDeep knowledge of ELAR pedagogy, college and career readiness standards, and assessment designProficiency in Google Workspace and experience working within a Learning Management System (LMS) or digital learning platformStrong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously and meet deadlinesCommitment to educational equity and a belief that all students can achieve at high levelsFamiliarity with AI-enhanced curriculum tools or adaptive content designExperience managing contractors or leading a small teamPreferredMaster’s degree in Educational Technology, Curriculum Design, Learning Design, or Educational LeadershipCertifications in curriculum design, instructional coaching, or related fieldsProject management certification (PMP, CSM, or CAPM)MORE DETAILSThis role is remote within the United States. Travel will rarely but occasionally be required.Must be able to stand or sit for prolonged periodsMust be able to lift/ carry/ transport educational or promotional materials and/or equipment weighing up to 50lbs.The hiring salary range for this position is $73,000-$91,000, with final offer dependent on qualifications and internal equity. In addition to salary, total compensation includes a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurances, flexible spending accounts, a 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, and an annual work from home reimbursement.We believe that the unique contributions of all CollegeSpring employees create our success. To ensure that our culture and our work continue to incorporate everyone’s perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.This is not necessarily an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, CollegeSpring reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed to address evolving business and partner needs.