Manager of Curriculum Alignments

Accelerate Education; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accelerate Education is seeking a Manager of Curriculum Alignments to lead the standards alignment strategy across content development initiatives. This role serves as the SME for state and national standards, ensuring teams align content with correct standards and maintain thorough alignment documentation for school partners and state submissions.

The role requires researching evolving standards, developing crosswalks and alignment reports, and maintaining the standards repository.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Leadership, or related field (Master's preferred).
• Five or more years of curriculum development, instructional design, educational publishing, standards alignment, or curriculum compliance.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting and applying state academic standards.
• Experience developing curriculum maps, standards crosswalks, and alignment documentation.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and documentation skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience managing multiple curriculum initiatives simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the organization's subject matter expert on state and national academic standards.
• Research, source, interpret, and maintain current academic standards across all curriculum products.
• Monitor standards revisions, state adoption cycles, and regulatory changes that impact curriculum.
• Analyze standards and identify curriculum gaps requiring instructional remediation.
• Prepare implementation guidance identifying standards that must be addressed by curriculum development teams.
• Develop and maintain curriculum maps, standards crosswalks, alignment matrices, and curriculum documentation.
• Maintain the organization's official repository of academic standards and alignment documentation.
• Produce alignment reports and documentation for school partners, customers, curriculum adoptions, and state approval submissions.
• Collaborate with the Manager of Curriculum Adaptations to ensure development teams receive complete standards requirements before projects begin.
• Validate completed curriculum updates to ensure standards have been fully addressed prior to state submission.
• Support curriculum audits, customer requests, and internal compliance reviews.
• Develop templates, processes, and documentation standards that improve the efficiency and consistency of curriculum alignment efforts.
• Recommend improvements to alignment workflows that reduce development risk and improve organizational readiness for state approvals.

Skills

Curriculum development experience

Instructional design

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Documentation skills

Advanced Microsoft Excel

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Leadership, or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

LMS environments

Job description

The Manager of Curriculum Alignments leads Accelerate Education's curriculum alignment strategy across all content development initiatives. This position serves as the organization's subject matter expert on state and national academic standards, ensuring curriculum teams develop content using the correct standards while maintaining comprehensive alignment documentation for school partners, curriculum adoptions, and state department of education submissions.

The Manager researches and interprets evolving academic standards, develops curriculum crosswalks and alignment reports, maintains the organization's standards repository, and provides implementation guidance to curriculum development teams. Working closely with Product Management, Curriculum, Project Management, and the Manager of Curriculum Adaptations, this role ensures all standards-driven projects begin with accurate requirements and conclude with complete, submission-ready documentation. This description builds on the responsibilities in the attached draft while clarifying ownership of standards, documentation, and state submission support.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as the organization's subject matter expert on state and national academic standards.
• Research, source, interpret, and maintain current academic standards across all curriculum products.
• Monitor standards revisions, state adoption cycles, and regulatory changes that impact curriculum.
• Analyze standards and identify curriculum gaps requiring instructional remediation.
• Prepare implementation guidance identifying standards that must be addressed by curriculum development teams.
• Develop and maintain curriculum maps, standards crosswalks, alignment matrices, and curriculum documentation.
• Maintain the organization's official repository of academic standards and alignment documentation.
• Produce alignment reports and documentation for school partners, customers, curriculum adoptions, and state approval submissions.
• Collaborate with the Manager of Curriculum Adaptations to ensure development teams receive complete standards requirements before projects begin.
• Validate completed curriculum updates to ensure standards have been fully addressed prior to state submission.Support curriculum audits, customer requests, and internal compliance reviews.
• Develop templates, processes, and documentation standards that improve the efficiency and consistency of curriculum alignment efforts.
• Recommend improvements to alignment workflows that reduce development risk and improve organizational readiness for state approvals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Leadership, or related field (Master's preferred).
• Five or more years of experience in curriculum development, instructional design, educational publishing, standards alignment, or curriculum compliance.
• Demonstrated experience interpreting and applying state academic standards.
• Experience developing curriculum maps, standards crosswalks, and alignment documentation.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and documentation skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience managing multiple curriculum initiatives simultaneously.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting curriculum state approval or adoption submissions.
• Knowledge of Quality Matters standards.
• Experience with online learning platforms and LMS environments.
• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility requirements.
• Experience working with curriculum, product, project management, and instructional design teams.
• Experience using AI-assisted curriculum research and documentation tools.

Success in This Role

Success means every curriculum project begins with accurate standards, clear implementation guidance, and complete alignment documentation. Curriculum teams know exactly what standards must be addressed, state submission materials are prepared accurately and on schedule, and curriculum updates consistently satisfy state compliance requirements while reducing redevelopment effort.

Background checks are required as a part of the hiring process for this role

Accelerate Education is an equal employment opportunity employer to all employees and applicants for employment. No person is to be discriminated against in employment because of race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disabilities unrelated to job performance, status as a veteran of the armed forces of the United States or sexual preference. This policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including hiring, introductory period, training, orientation, placement and employee development, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, layoff and recall, social and recreational programs, employee facilities, termination, and retirement. Promotional decisions are based on performance and ability. The Company complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws that prohibit discrimination in employment.