Example Job Description

Curriculum Coordinator

A curriculum coordinator who advances standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.

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The indicators below describe evidence a strong response may contain; they are not required scripts or the only acceptable answers.

In the Curriculum Coordinator role, how would you lead a transparent curriculum review and adoption process?
Strong response indicators: Defines the purpose, scope, governing requirement, timeline, responsible owners, dependencies, controls, communication, contingencies, and evidence of completion. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, how would you evaluate whether materials align with standards and student needs?
Strong response indicators: Verifies authoritative information, protects the affected person and data, follows approved procedures, involves responsible owners, documents facts, and confirms resolution. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, a digital resource is instructionally strong but raises privacy or accessibility concerns. What would you do?
Strong response indicators: Uses systematic diagnosis, representative evidence, root-cause analysis, controlled correction, reconciliation, documentation, and monitoring for recurrence. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, how would you design professional learning that changes classroom practice over time?
Strong response indicators: Applies least privilege, minimum necessary access, secure channels, appropriate approval, auditability, retention, and prompt escalation of uncertainty or risk. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, educators disagree sharply about a proposed curriculum. How would you facilitate the process?
Strong response indicators: Communicates the evidence, affected population, operational consequence, uncertainty, available choices, recommended action, accountable owners, and follow-up without unnecessary jargon. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, how would you evaluate a curriculum pilot?
Strong response indicators: Builds sustainable ownership through clear definitions, role-specific training, useful quality reports, feedback loops, documentation, support, and verification that improvement persists. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, what evidence would you use to identify implementation gaps?
Strong response indicators: Defines the purpose, scope, governing requirement, timeline, responsible owners, dependencies, controls, communication, contingencies, and evidence of completion. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, how would you support multilingual learners and students with disabilities during implementation?
Strong response indicators: Verifies authoritative information, protects the affected person and data, follows approved procedures, involves responsible owners, documents facts, and confirms resolution. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, a publisher changes a licensed digital product after adoption. How would you respond?
Strong response indicators: Uses systematic diagnosis, representative evidence, root-cause analysis, controlled correction, reconciliation, documentation, and monitoring for recurrence. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, how would you balance district consistency with teacher professional judgment?
Strong response indicators: Applies least privilege, minimum necessary access, secure channels, appropriate approval, auditability, retention, and prompt escalation of uncertainty or risk. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, what continuity documentation should exist for curriculum programs?
Strong response indicators: Communicates the evidence, affected population, operational consequence, uncertainty, available choices, recommended action, accountable owners, and follow-up without unnecessary jargon. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
In the Curriculum Coordinator role, what would you prioritize during your first 90 days?
Strong response indicators: Builds sustainable ownership through clear definitions, role-specific training, useful quality reports, feedback loops, documentation, support, and verification that improvement persists. Connects the response to the position’s specific responsibility for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.

Local HR review required: These examples are educational starting points, not a complete selection instrument or legal advice. The district should validate every question and scoring criterion against its current job analysis, collective bargaining obligations, nondiscrimination requirements, reasonable-accommodation procedures, and applicable law. Avoid inquiries about protected personal characteristics or information unrelated to job performance.

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Position Description

Under the direction of the appropriate district administrator, the Curriculum Coordinator coordinate and lead work supporting standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.

The position applies curriculum leadership, standards alignment, instructional resources, professional learning, implementation support, accessibility, and program evaluation across curriculum-management, learning-management, assessment, student information, digital-content, accessibility, professional-learning, survey, analytics, and collaboration platforms. It establishes or follows clear ownership, validation, security, documentation, review, and escalation practices appropriate to the role’s assigned authority.

The Curriculum Coordinator collaborates with teachers, instructional coaches, principals, special education, multilingual learner programs, assessment, technology, library/media staff, students, families, publishers, and district leadership. The role is accountable for cross-functional planning, ownership, calendars, training, quality control, escalation, and continuous improvement while protecting confidential information and keeping local decisions traceable.

Reports To

Insert your school district’s specific reporting relationship here.

Required Education and Credentials

Required

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in education, curriculum and instruction, or a closely related field.
Valid California teaching credential or other credential appropriate to the district-determined assignment.
Successful completion of all district-required employment clearances and mandated training.

Preferred

Master’s degree in curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, special education, multilingual education, or a related field.
Valid California administrative services credential when required by the district-determined scope and classification.
Professional learning in standards, assessment, instructional coaching, accessibility, educational technology, privacy, and program evaluation.

Required / Desired Experience

Required Experience

Three or more years of progressively responsible experience in K-12 education, student information, data, technology, compliance, research, records, or a closely related function.
Experience with standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement.
Experience interpreting requirements, procedures, definitions, reports, system information, or technical documentation relevant to assigned work.
Experience coordinating or completing deadline-driven work with careful documentation and quality control.
Experience handling confidential information and communicating with users or stakeholders.

Desired Experience

Experience with curriculum-management, learning-management, assessment, student information, digital-content, accessibility, professional-learning, survey, analytics, and collaboration platforms.
Experience partnering with teachers, instructional coaches, principals, special education, multilingual learner programs, assessment, technology, library/media staff, students, families, publishers, and district leadership.
Experience in cross-functional planning, ownership, calendars, training, quality control, escalation, and continuous improvement.
Experience using SQL, advanced spreadsheets, scripting, workflow tools, APIs, secure file transfer, or visualization tools when relevant to assigned duties.
Experience developing accessible training, technical documentation, process maps, data dictionaries, or continuity materials.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Planning, Operations, and Service Delivery

Coordinate curriculum review, adoption, implementation, pacing, resource selection, professional learning, and continuous-improvement cycles.
Facilitate representative committees that examine standards, evidence, student needs, accessibility, cultural responsiveness, implementation feasibility, cost, and policy requirements.
Develop or curate instructional frameworks, units, guides, resources, model lessons, and assessment connections without replacing teacher professional judgment.
Plan sustained professional learning, coaching, implementation monitoring, and differentiated support for schools and educators.
Manage pilots, feedback, licensing, inventory, digital access, communication, and evaluation associated with assigned curricula and programs.

Data Quality, Controls, and Documentation

Trace curriculum claims and alignment decisions to current standards, evidence, adopted materials, and documented review criteria.
Verify accessibility, accommodations, language supports, copyright, privacy, security, interoperability, and age appropriateness before broad deployment.
Use implementation evidence, student work, educator feedback, participation, and outcome data without making unsupported causal claims.
Document committee membership, conflicts, criteria, decisions, minority viewpoints, approvals, versions, and change history.
Monitor adoption fidelity and local adaptation while distinguishing resource gaps, training needs, schedule constraints, and program-design issues.

Curriculum Coordinator-Specific Leadership and Support

Own or support the assigned portfolio for standards-aligned curriculum review, adoption, implementation, professional learning, accessibility, and evidence-informed improvement, with responsibilities clearly matched to the position’s authority and classification.
Develop role-specific calendars, service expectations, status reporting, support channels, and escalation paths.
Coordinate decisions with responsible data owners, program leaders, technical custodians, reviewers, and approving officials.
Provide accessible training, guidance, communications, and technical assistance tailored to user responsibilities.
Analyze recurring errors, incidents, requests, and process delays and recommend sustainable improvements.

Security, Improvement, and Continuity

Protect personally identifiable and confidential information in systems, files, reports, email, tickets, meetings, training, and support activity.
Test consequential changes using representative cases, documented expectations, peer or owner review, and post-change validation.
Use automation only with appropriate access, versioning, logging, exception handling, review, and recovery procedures.
Maintain current standard operating procedures, cross-training, critical contacts, dependencies, backup coverage, and recovery steps.
Perform other related duties consistent with the position’s purpose and classification.

Required Skills and Abilities

Knowledge of

Curriculum leadership, standards alignment, instructional resources, professional learning, implementation support, accessibility, and program evaluation.
Curriculum-management, learning-management, assessment, student information, digital-content, accessibility, professional-learning, survey, analytics, and collaboration platforms.
Data governance, source ownership, data quality, internal controls, change management, documentation, and continuous improvement.
Student privacy, confidentiality, role-based access, secure transmission, records management, incident escalation, and responsible use.
Project coordination, customer service, adult learning, accessible communication, and support practices appropriate to assigned work.

Ability to

Interpret detailed requirements and translate them into accurate procedures, system actions, reports, guidance, or decisions.
Trace discrepancies through source records, processes, configurations, mappings, transformations, and outputs.
Manage competing priorities and fixed deadlines with transparent status, documentation, review, and escalation.
Communicate clearly with technical, program, school, leadership, family, vendor, or agency audiences as appropriate.
Exercise discretion, preserve confidentiality, recognize limits of authority, and escalate material risk promptly.
Learn evolving requirements and technologies and improve processes without weakening controls or continuity.

Work Environment

Work is performed primarily in district offices, schools, service locations, meetings, training environments, and other computer-based professional settings.
The position requires sustained computer use and detailed review of records, systems, files, reports, requests, and technical or procedural documentation.
Work involves frequent interaction with teachers, instructional coaches, principals, special education, multilingual learner programs, assessment, technology, library/media staff, students, families, publishers, and district leadership.
Workload may increase substantially during annual cycles, reporting windows, implementations, releases, audits, incidents, school transitions, or other critical deadlines.
The employee may encounter frequent interruptions, confidential matters, ambiguous records, failed processes, competing priorities, and urgent requests.
The position requires secure handling of personally identifiable student, family, or staff information.

Other Requirements

Successfully complete required criminal-record, fingerprint, and employment clearances.
Complete a tuberculosis risk assessment and any examination required by applicable law or district policy.
Complete annual mandated-reporter training and fulfill all legally applicable reporting responsibilities.
Complete district-required cybersecurity, student-privacy, safety, nondiscrimination, records, and workplace training.
Maintain professional confidentiality and comply with district policies governing records, information security, acceptable technology use, and data access.
Travel between district offices, schools, service locations, meetings, and professional-development activities as assigned.
Possess a valid California driver’s license and maintain insurability when driving is an essential function of the position.
Occasionally work early-morning, evening, weekend, or extended hours during critical operational, reporting, testing, implementation, or incident periods.
Regularly sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, read, and operate computers and standard office equipment.
Use hands and fingers for keyboarding and handling documents; maintain visual attention while reviewing detailed records and computer displays.
Occasionally lift, carry, or move records, devices, equipment, or supplies weighing up to 25 pounds.
Perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.