Curriculum project manager

The Curriculum Project Manager is responsible for turning Summit K12’s curriculum priorities into clear, executable project plans and ensuring work moves predictably through the Curriculum Lifecycle—from requirements and architecture through gold-standard prototype, production, quality assurance, implementation/evidence, and continuous improvement. The role creates the operational structure, visibility, coordination, and accountability required for curriculum teams to deliver high-quality work on time and at scale.

Working closely with the Executive Director of Curriculum & Learning, Domain Directors, Principal Curriculum Designers, Learning Experience Designers, Senior Curriculum Writers, Curriculum Writers, Editors, Product Management and Operations, Engineering, Assessment Design, Creative Studio, Professional Learning, and external production partners, the Curriculum Project Manager coordinates timelines, dependencies, handoffs, resources, risks, decisions, and readiness checkpoints across multiple concurrent initiatives. This is not an academic design role. The Curriculum Project Manager does not own curriculum architecture, pedagogy, domain standards, gold-standard prototypes, or academic acceptance criteria; academic leaders and instructional designers own those decisions.

The Curriculum Project Manager makes the operating system visible and executable so the right work reaches the right people at the right time, unresolved issues are surfaced early, and projects advance only when required inputs and readiness criteria are in place.

Key Responsibilities

1. Curriculum Lifecycle & Project Planning: Build and maintain integrated project plans for curriculum initiatives across requirements, architecture, prototype, production, QA, implementation/evidence, and continuous improvement. Partner with the product’s project manager to translate approved product priorities into clear curriculum workstreams, including curriculum specific scopes, milestones, deliverables, owners, dependencies, decision points, readiness criteria, and target dates.
2. Production Planning, Scheduling & Capacity: Develop and maintain production schedules across internal curriculum teams, editors, Learning Experience Design, Creative Studio, working with Product/Engineering dependencies, and approved external production partners.
3. External Production Coordination: Operationalize external production plans after academic leaders have established the architecture, prototypes, specifications, templates, and acceptance criteria required for successful execution.
4. Readiness Gates, QA Coordination & Handoffs: Coordinate readiness checkpoints across the Curriculum Lifecycle and verify that required inputs, decisions, documentation, and approvals are complete before work advances.
5. Cross-Functional Coordination & Decision Management: Serve as the central coordination point for assigned curriculum initiatives, ensuring stakeholders understand commitments, dependencies, decisions, and next steps.
6. Risk, Scope, Budget & Change Management: Identify schedule, scope, dependency, resource, quality, and external-partner risks early and maintain clear mitigation and contingency plans.
7. Project Visibility, Metrics & Executive Reporting: Maintain accurate project dashboards and status reporting that show progress, milestone health, dependencies, risks, decisions, capacity concerns, and upcoming gates.
8. Process Improvement & AI-Enabled Operations: Identify recurring workflow friction, unnecessary handoffs, duplicated effort, unclear ownership, or avoidable rework and recommend improvements to the Curriculum Lifecycle.

Definition of Success

The Curriculum Project Manager succeeds when curriculum work moves through a visible, disciplined life cycle with clear ownership, realistic plans, timely decisions, strong handoffs, and fewer surprises. Teams know what is expected, what is ready, what is blocked, who owns the decision, and what must happen next.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Required

Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business, Education, Operations, Publishing, Communications, or a related field. Four or more years of project management or production-management experience, preferably in K–12 curriculum, educational publishing, edtech, instructional materials, or another complex content-development environment.

Benefits

At Summit K12, we are committed to pay transparency and equitable compensation practices. The posted salary range reflects the scope of the role and current market benchmarks. Final compensation will be based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, your experience, skills, and qualifications. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package.