Project Manager, Curriculum Operations
Job Description
VP, Curriculum Operations
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Accelerate Learning provides STEM curriculum and professional development solutions that empower teachers, increase scores, and inspire students to become tomorrow’s STEM leaders. Its award-winning STEMscopes and Math Nation curricula and resources are highly adaptable, accessible, and support instruction in any learning environment. The comprehensive, results-oriented solutions are used by more than 9 million students and 750,000 teachers across the country.
“For teachers, by teachers” is not a slogan—it’s a fact. Our flagship product, STEMscopes, was incubated in the classroom and developed by over 200 teachers, science experts, and science professors. Our origins lie in providing teachers a model for implementing inquiry-based learning in the classroom and are still core to how we develop and enhance our products today. Accelerate Learning has always listened to the teachers by taking in feedback, best practices, and the latest pedagogy to develop the most effective STEM curriculum.
Affordable for schools, engaging for students, and easy to use for teachers, Accelerate Learning drives student achievement by supplying teachers with comprehensive core content and supplemental activities delivered in customizable ways that can be adapted to unique teaching and learning styles.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Project Manager, Curriculum Operations, is responsible for coordinating and driving the successful execution of curriculum-related projects across the organization. This role manages project plans, timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to organizational priorities. The Project Manager serves as a central point of coordination across Curriculum Development, Product, Print Production, Technology, and other cross-functional teams, driving accountability and maintaining visibility throughout the project lifecycle.
The ideal candidate is a results-oriented project management professional with experience in a K–12 curriculum, educational publishing, instructional materials, or EdTech environment. They are highly organized, proactive, and skilled at building relationships, navigating ambiguity, and coordinating multiple concurrent initiatives while delivering consistent project outcomes. Successful candidates demonstrate exceptional professionalism, while building trust across diverse teams.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage multiple curriculum-related projects from initiation through completion, ensuring alignment of timelines, deliverables, budgets, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations.
- Monitor project progress, manage risks, dependencies, and schedule impacts, and drive accountability for commitments, deliverables, milestone completion, and contingency planning, escalating issues when appropriate.
- Coordinate project activities and drive accountability across Curriculum Development, Product, Print Production, Technology, and other stakeholders, including proper cross-functional handoffs and phase transitions.
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, resource plans, documentation, trackers, and reporting artifacts to ensure accurate project visibility and execution.
- Facilitate project meetings, readiness reviews, and status checkpoints; document decisions, action items, risks, and next steps; and communicate progress, project health, accomplishments through dashboards and executive updates.
- Coordinate launch-readiness activities, ensuring required deliverables, approvals, communications, and dependencies are completed prior to release.
- Support project intake, prioritization, and all planning activities by gathering requirements, documenting scope, and coordinating stakeholder input.
- Monitor project budgets, resource allocations, and expenditures; identify variances and provide budget updates and forecasts to leadership.
- Partner with the Vice President of Curriculum Operations, in conjunction with Curriculum Directors and Senior Managers, to support portfolio visibility, reporting, and execution of strategic initiatives across the curriculum organization.
- Analyze project metrics and execution trends to identify data-driven opportunities for improved coordination, communication, efficiency, and overall project performance outcomes using retrospectives.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Competencies/Skills:
- Strong project management skills with demonstrated experience planning, coordinating, and executing complex cross-functional projects involving simultaneous workstreams, stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence outcomes and drive accountability.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and risk-management skills with the ability to identify trends, dependencies, evaluate impacts, and drive issues to resolution.
- Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to changing business needs.
- Proficiency creating and maintaining project documentation, trackers, dashboards, and reporting tools using project management and collaboration tools such as Monday.com, Jira, Excel, Microsoft Project, or similar tools.
- Ability to build collaborative relationships across departments and effectively coordinate work across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Experience supporting budget tracking, resource coordination, status reporting, and project performance monitoring.
- Continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, communication, and project execution.
Attributes:
- Results-oriented, proactive, and accountable, with a strong commitment to delivering outcomes and solving problems.
- Navigates diverse communication styles, competing priorities, and customer-driven demands with professionalism, grace, and resilience while exemplifying ALI's culture of trust, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborative and relationship-driven, with the ability to build trust, influence stakeholders, and balance discretion with execution discipline.
- Comfortable creating structure in ambiguous environments and maintaining momentum across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Systems thinker who can connect day-to-day operational activities to broader organizational goals and outcomes.
- Able to balance attention to detail with broader project objectives and strategic priorities.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a desire to identify opportunities to improve processes, communication, and execution.
Education and/or Experience:
Experience:
- Minimum of 3–5 years of project management, program management, operations, or related experience required.
- Experience within a K–12 curriculum, educational publishing, instructional materials, or EdTech organization strongly preferred.
- Experience managing cross-functional projects involving curriculum development, print design, print production, technology, product, or publishing teams strongly preferred.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Project Management, Business Administration, Organizational Leadership or related field required.
- PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable project management certification required.
WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
