Curriculum Manager jobs in Orlando, FL

SUMMARY 

The Associate Manager, Curriculum is responsible for leading the instructional content development and curriculum quality functions, while providing curriculum writing and editing expertise. This role develops and maintains training materials for both instructor-led training and self-study courseware outlines, including course design documents, content outlines, assessment questions, scenarios, and case studies. This role partners with internal and external subject matter experts who will provide input for content and field examples for the development of curriculum products. The Associate Manger, Curriculum is responsible for drafting, editing, revising, and reviewing all training materials, including those written by Curriculum Quality Specialists.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and oversee key instructional content initiatives from planning to launch ensuring delivery of high-quality products within the agreed timeline and achieving performance objectives.   
• Lead a diverse team of curriculum quality specialists and coach them to meet goals and achieve success; nurture team member growth and professional development.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop, implement, and maintain leading edge curriculum products to meet or exceed goals. 
• Draft course descriptions with learning objectives. 
• Develop and revise structurally sound facilitator guides with hands on activities and other elements of participant engagement. 
• Write knowledge check questions, final assessments, and certificate exams for courses to ensure comprehension of material consistent with learning objectives. 
• Collaborate with internal and external subject matter experts to establish objectives, course structure, and develop content, scenarios, and case studies. 
• Drive continuous improvement in response to feedback through program evaluations and discussions with facilitators, producers, and participants.
• Ensure that all content items adhere to appropriate IIA item-writing guidelines and glossaries for both content and format consistency, including ensuring the global applicability of concepts and terms. 
• Communicate with delivery team for accurate delivery of curriculum materials.  
• Provide timely and relevant communications and status updates and metrics to all stakeholders, including development and maintenance of dashboards. 
• Maintain compliance with NASBA standards for all content.
• Develop and maintain all team level Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs), Style Guides (SGs) and Forms. 
• Apply recognized project management principles and make decisions with little or no supervision in order to simultaneously and efficiently manage multiple project plans and timelines, and ensure tasks and projects are successfully completed within scope, and on time.
• Stay up to date on information and trends related to the internal auditing profession to ensure that curriculum content is supporting the profession today while addressing future needs and direction for the profession.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has direct management responsibilities for Curriculum Quality Specialists.

Qualifications  

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have:

• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills.
• Curriculum content and exam item writing experience, including courseware design, editing, and proofreading.
• Familiarity with writing and editing learning objectives, content, activities, and assessments utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy. 
• Experience prioritizing and balancing multiple, ongoing projects with ability to meet critical deadlines.
• Strong proofreading, editing, and style guide conformance skills.
• High attention to detail and consistency of style across multiple products and formats.
• Strong collaboration skills.
• Self-motivation and ability to work independently.
• Ability to consider the global perspective and applicability of projects and content.
• Mastery of MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• SmartSheet experience preferred.

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience                                             

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in curriculum development, education, internal audit, or other related field and 3-5 years of experience in curriculum development, project management and previous people management experience

Competency Framework Requirements: 

• Ability to think creatively while managing multiple assignments (multitask) in a deadline-driven environment while consistently producing quality results.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively and communicate effectively. 
• Comfortable working with aggressive timeframes and the possibility of new and emerging responsibilities.
• Must be organized, able to act independently, and have an eye for detail with the ability of putting ideas into tangible form.

Critical Success Factors:

• Proven success with curriculum content development
• 3-5 years of proven curriculum content development, including leadership experience.
• Strong program/project management skills with an emphasis on project execution. 
• Must be self-motivated, well organized and detail oriented.
• Ability to work with data, evaluation metrics and details.

Language Skills                                            

Effective written, verbal, presentation development, and interpersonal communications skills as well as strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret facilitator feedback that will be transformed into meaningful presentations. Ability to write business correspondence and work with IT and other staff professionals is required.  A complete command of the English language, including grammar skills.

Mathematical Skills                                                  

Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability                                                     

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and effectively propose and execute solutions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in written, mathematical, or diagram form, and create tangible representations of several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills                                            

Expert ability to work in a computerized environment with a strong knowledge of most Microsoft Office products and Smart Sheets. Must have an aptitude to learn new software tools relating to project and content management.

Other Skills and Abilities                                                     

Must have excellent writing, communication, and organizational skills, team orientation, and strong interpersonal skills.  Able to handle multiple priorities and deadlines. 

Physical Demands 

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 frequently required to stand, walk, sit, talk, or hear.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Work Environment 

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 quiet.