Project Manager, Curriculum Operations

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.

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.

• 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.

• Strong project management skills with demonstrated experience planning, coordinating, and executing complex cross‑functional projects involving simultaneous work streams, 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…