Posting DetailsPosting Detail Information
Posting Number SFA736P
Open Date 09/29/2026
Close Date 10/13/2026
Open Until Filled No
Special Instructions to ApplicantsPosition Information
Job Title Manager of Curriculum Development
Status Full Time
FTE 1
Classification Title Classified Grade F
Job Summary The
Manager of Curriculum Development leads the college's curriculum development infrastructure, providing coordination, expertise, project management, and continuous improvement for the design, revision, review, approval, implementation, and maintenance of academic curriculum. The Manager serves as a key connector between faculty, instructional administrators, academic operations, assessment and institutional leadership. This position is designed as an innovative curriculum systems role, using technology, data, workflow automation, artificial intelligence, and process improvement to make curriculum development faster, clearer, more transparent, and more responsive to student, transfer, workforce, and institutional needs. The Manager ensures that curriculum ideas move efficiently from concept to approval to implementation.
Required Qualifications - Master's degree in Higher Education, Instructional Design, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Leadership, Academic Administration, Business Administration, or a closely related field.
- Minimum of five (5) years of professional experience in higher education, preferably within Academic Affairs, curriculum design and development, academic operations, or a related area.
- Experience collaborating with faculty, administrators, and other stakeholders to enhance teaching, learning, and student success through a variety of instructional and academic support approaches.
- Demonstrated success with program or curriculum development.
- Demonstrated ability to organize multiple projects and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, with the ability to communicate professionally, diplomatically, and confidentially with diverse audiences.
Preferred Qualifications - Community college experience.
- Familiarity with project management methodologies and continuous improvement practices.
- Experience with guided pathways, program mapping, stackable credentials, or workforce education.
Physical Demands - In-Person: This position may require the employee to be onsite at Schoolcraft College.
- Writing Skills: Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
- Language Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
- Communication Skills: Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from prospective and current employees, and groups of managers.
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide with all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- 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 accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Office Environment: This role may involve being in a stationary position in front of a computer, using a keyboard, mouse (or applicable equipment) and telephone. Communicating and exchanging information with individuals electronically or in person. This role may also involve standing and walking for periods of time, and the use of hands and moving objects on occasion, of up to 10-20 lbs. Specific vision abilities required may include close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.
- Noise Level: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work Hours Monday-Friday, 8-5pm
Salary Pay range is $32.63-$52.42 per hour
Job Duties
Job Duty Name 1
Description of Job Duty Lead the college-wide curriculum development, revision, review, approval, implementation, and inactivation processes.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 2
Description of Job Duty Develop and maintain a modernized comprehensive curriculum management strategy aligned with the college strategic plan, workforce needs, transfer opportunities, accreditation expectations, and student success goals.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 3
Description of Job Duty Serves as the primary project manager while collaborating with curriculm designers, faculty, staff, and appropriate stakeholders, ensuring best practices are applied during curriculum proposals and projects, ensuring clear milestones, owners, timelines, and communication.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 4
Description of Job Duty Support development of stackable credentials, certificates, degrees, embedded credentials, accelerated pathways, and other innovative academic models.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 5
Description of Job Duty Ensure curriculum is designed around clear academic pathways, including prerequisite sequencing, alternative completion pathways, transfer pathways, and completion milestones.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 6
Description of Job Duty Provide faculty and academic administrators with templates, tools, guidance, and consultation throughout the curriculum development process.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 7
Description of Job Duty Receive, review, triage, and assign curriculum requests; coordinate collection and review of required proposal documentation and supporting data.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 8
Description of Job Duty Manage curriculum project plans and monitor proposal progress to ensure clear scope, milestones, owners, timelines, documentation, and approval readiness.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 9
Description of Job Duty Maintain the curriculum handbook and the master curriculum calendar aligned with curriculum committee meetings, catalog deadlines, implementation timelines, etc.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 10
Description of Job Duty Prepare curriculum committee agendas, proposal packets, decision records, and follow-up documentation as assigned.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 11
Description of Job Duty Track curriculum changes from concept through implementation while maintaining accurate records, approvals, timelines, and related documentation.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 12
Description of Job Duty Advance continuous improvement of curriculum workflows through process review, targeted training, and processes that reduce time from concept to implementation.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 13
Description of Job Duty Serve as the primary functional resource for curriculum management technology and related academic workflow systems.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 14
Description of Job Duty Identify opportunities to use data and technology to make curriculum decisions more timely, agile, transparent, and student-centered.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 15
Description of Job Duty Manages and takes initiative on projects capitalizing on professional instructional and curricular design expertise to facilitate program, course, and institutional level curriculum design, including the development of appropriate assessments within established timelines.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 16
Description of Job Duty Ensures alignment of curriculum and assessment products and activities with taxonomy, external and internal standards, policies and practices, including departmental, institutional, local, state and federal requirements.
Essential Duty? Yes
Percentage Of TimeJob Duty Name 17
Description of Job Duty Other duties as assigned.
Essential Duty? Yes
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