Senior State Standards Specialist Ela

Great Minds is a mission-driven organization developing high-quality curricula in math, science, and ELA, supporting educators and students nationwide. The company is entering a growth phase focused on building connected, customer-informed experiences across the educator journey.

Location: Remote

Salary: $80,000–$91,000/yr

Responsibilities

• Assess RFP and State Adoption submissions for Great Minds products providing content area support and knowledge.
• Create quality documentation that shows how Great Minds curriculum aligns against state and national standards and exam rubrics for public distribution in RFP responses and state proposal submissions.
• Collaborate with internal RFP and state submission review teams, including Sales and Product, to make high-level recommendations for additional content coverage, ensuring that the alignment achieves optimal standards coverage.
• Review existing curriculum alignments to confirm that documented coverage reflects the most current version of the standards.
• Summarizing the alignment data and highlighting key findings to support marketing efforts, support policy documentation, and contribute to research studies as needed.
• Develop crosswalks and complete rubrics related to RFPs to confirm that Great Minds products meet RFP and state submission requirements.
• Support Proposals team in reviewing product criteria in RFPs and state adoption documentation and assessing Great Minds product alignment.
• Evaluate and analyze state standards and requirements to meet Sales and RFP opportunities for Great Minds products.
• Participate in weekly or biweekly state adoption meetings as the Proposal team’s content representative.
• Establish deep knowledge of Great Minds’ state adoption process and develop keen understanding of the go-to leads for each team, who to contact for questions, etc.
• Partner with Content and Product teams to maintain and verify state alignment studies and ensure all state standards repositories are up-to-date.
• Attend state DOE and large K-12 district RFP publisher informational meetings as necessary to support requirements gathering for district RFPs and state adoptions.
• Identify scope work needed for filling gaps in current standard alignments to inform Go/No-Go decisions for district RFP and state adoption submissions.
• Work cross-functionally between Proposals team and Content/Product teams to ensure latest product data and alignments are fully documented.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Three or more (3+) years of instructional design or curriculum development experience in the K-12 ELA education market with particular expertise in evaluating High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) curriculum.
• Strong knowledge in instruction and curriculum development.
• Experience doing curriculum alignment work in K-12 or higher education.
• Experience mapping state standards to curriculum.
• Strong familiarity with state and national curriculum standards.
• Strong knowledge of standards, alignment, curriculum mapping, and standards language.
• Familiarity with K-12 district RFPs and state instructional materials adoptions.
• Able to analyze and review content with strong attention to detail.
• Manage Loopio product libraries to support up-to-date product information for K-12 district RFP submissions.
• Able to prioritize workload and meet critical milestones/deadlines on a tight schedule.
• Able to work independently and collaborate virtually with all team members and staff across the organization.
• Able to carry out detailed written and/or verbal instructions.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and interpersonal.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), SharePoint, Smartsheet, and Google Workspace.