Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TalkingPoints is an education technology nonprofit focused on strengthening family-school partnerships and improving student outcomes. The Academic Content Manager will lead the development and continuous improvement of Pre-K–5 literacy and math content, collaborate with district partners, build scalable content operations, and manage seasonal contractors.
Responsibilities
- Develop literacy and math activities aligned to curriculum pacing that schools can share with families throughout the year
- Ensure content is developmentally appropriate, academically sound, accessible to families, and engaging for children
- Partner with the Product team to design interactive games and other learning experiences for use at home
- Collaborate with the Partner Success team to onboard new district partners and gather curriculum resources, including scope and sequences and pacing guides
- Translate district curriculum materials into clear content-development and alignment plans
- Represent TalkingPoints as an academic content expert in presentations and meetings with district partners
- Develop systems for prioritizing, producing, reviewing, tagging, and maintaining academic content
- Establish quality standards and review processes that support consistency across grades, subjects, and district partners
- Use AI thoughtfully to improve the efficiency and quality of content development, tagging, curriculum alignment, and refinement
- Track content-development progress and identify opportunities to improve workflows and the partner experience
- Help recruit, hire, onboard, and train seasonal contractors who support academic content development and review
- Assign and prioritize contractor work based on partner needs and content-development goals
- Set ambitious but achievable production and quality goals
- Review contractor work, provide actionable feedback, and ensure content meets TalkingPoints’ standards
Skills
- You have experience as an elementary school teacher, instructional coach, or curriculum specialist and understand how strong school-family partnerships support student learning
- You have a strong understanding of evidence-based elementary literacy and math instruction, including the Science of Reading
- You have experience building operational processes that help to complete tasks more efficiently without sacrificing quality
- You are comfortable using AI and other tools to streamline workflows
- You are proactive, self-directed, and able to identify operational challenges, propose solutions, and drive implementation across teams
- Experience with U.S.-based K-12 education systems
- Experience in or empathy with communities we serve (e.g., underserved populations, education, immigration, bilingual and/or multicultural environments)
Benefits
- Competitive salary, health insurance, benefits, and flexible time off
- 401K match
- Annual professional development benefit
- Flexibility to work remotely
- Fun, smart, dynamic, motivated team focused on working together to transform family engagement to serve the families who need it most
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