Digital Curriculum Manager

Digital Curriculum Senior Specialist / Manager, ELARSenior Specialist or Manager may be hired, dependent on candidate qualifications

ABOUT US

CollegeSpring 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 ROLE

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: Staying current on ELAR and test-prep research and contributing to internal knowledge-sharing.