MGT is a leading provider of technology and advisory solutions serving state, local, and education government agencies across the United States. The Project Manager - Curriculum Development will manage internal production timelines, monitor progress, and ensure quality assurance for curriculum projects.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain internal production timelines for curriculum development
- Adjust processes and schedules when team members are delayed (e.g., out-of-office, illness, competing priorities)
- Maintain Smartsheet and Asana boards, project plans, trackers, and workflow documents to ensure visibility and alignment
- Support sprint planning with the Content Leads and help prepare materials for upcoming work cycles
- Coordinating with clients on timelines and making adjustments, as needed
- Monitor progress of workstreams, identifying trends, delays, or risks
- Flag bottlenecks to the Director of Program Management and recommend solutions or adjustments
- Provide timely updates and summaries for the Director of Program Management ensuring accurate roll‑ups of grade-band status
- Utilize data visualization and PM dashboards to communicate status and progress clearly
- Ensure accurate linking, versioning, and sharing of materials with clients, including all required rubrics and supporting documents
- Maintain documentation standards and ensure teams have access to the correct materials, templates, and tools
- Learn new technology platforms, project management tools, and organizational systems as needed to support project efficiency
- Hold reviewers accountable for using proper channels, documentation, and feedback systems
- Regularly review production rubrics to monitor quality, alignment, and completion across the team
- Track, compile, and organize all client feedback
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Education, Business Administration, Communications, Instructional Design, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- Three (3) plus years of professional project management experience, ideally within curriculum development, instructional design production, publishing, or adjacent fields
- Demonstrated expertise using project management systems and tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Asana, Airtable, Jira, Monday.com)
- Experience managing complex, multi‑step workflows with multiple stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to maintain structure within fast-moving environments
- Experience with progress monitoring, dashboards, and/or data visualization
- Ability to manage competing priorities and adapt quickly to shifting timelines
- Strong communication skills and comfort holding others accountable to deadlines and processes
- Comfort managing up to more senior teammates on timelines
- Experience in curriculum production, instructional publishing, or large-scale print workflows
- Familiarity with K–12 or K–5 education contexts
- Experience coordinating with cross-functional teams including designers, writers, editors, and content reviewers
- Ability to quickly learn new tech platforms and workflow tools
- People management or team‑lead experience (not required but beneficial)