Manager of Curriculum Development

Posting Details

Posting Detail Information

Posting Number SFA736P Open Date 09/29/2026 Close Date 10/13/2026 Open Until Filled No Special Instructions to Applicants

Position 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.

Schoolcraft is a comprehensive, open-door, community-based college. The mission of the College is to provide a transformational learning experience designed to increase the capacity of individuals and groups to achieve intellectual, social, and economic goals.

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

Schoolcraft College is an AA/EEO Employer.

• 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job 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 Time Job Duty Name 17 Description of Job Duty

Other duties as assigned.

Essential Duty? Yes Percentage Of Time

Supplemental Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

• • Do you have a master's degree in Higher Education, Instructional Design, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Leadership, Academic Administration, Business Administration, or a closely related field?

• Yes

• No

• • Do you have at least five (5) years of professional experience in higher education, preferably within Academic Affairs, curriculum design and development, academic operations, or a related area?

• Yes

• No

Documents Needed To Apply

Required Documents

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Transcript 1

Optional Documents

• Other 1
• Other 2
• Other 3