Curriculum Development Associate
Organize instructional content, develop assessment materials, work with learning objectives and standards, and help maintain accurate, structured curriculum resources for Acuity products and programs.
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The Curriculum Development Associate supports the creation and maintenance of structured educational materials across Acuity Data Systems products and programs. This entry-level role works from established learning objectives, standards, source materials, templates, and production requirements to organize curriculum content, develop assessments, maintain question banks, and review materials for quality and consistency.
This role is designed for someone beginning a career in curriculum-development and educational-content operations. Associates contribute to defined curriculum workflows rather than independently owning full academic-program design.
What You'll Do
Organize Curriculum Content
Organize instructional information, educational resources, standards, activities, and supporting materials into structured formats.
Develop Assessment Materials
Create multiple-choice, short-answer, essay, and other assessment items using approved source content and established requirements.
Build and Maintain Question Banks
Organize assessment items using consistent fields for prompts, answer choices, correct responses, objectives, categories, difficulty levels, and metadata.
Work with Learning Objectives and Standards
Connect curriculum resources and assessment items to established learning objectives, competencies, standards, or course requirements.
Maintain Curriculum Data
Use spreadsheets and structured systems to track curriculum resources, assessments, standards, categories, and production status.
Follow Templates and Production Standards
Work from established templates, rubrics, naming conventions, formatting requirements, and production instructions.
Perform Content Quality Control
Review materials for completeness, consistency, duplication, formatting problems, missing information, obvious errors, and alignment with requirements.
Support Educational Content Production
Assist with exercises, activities, assessments, instructional resources, and other structured curriculum-support materials.
Maintain Digital Files
Organize curriculum documents, spreadsheets, files, and project resources using established file-management procedures.
Prerequisite Skills
Baseline capabilities expected before applying or before successfully performing the role.
- High school diploma, GED, or equivalent recommended.
- Basic computer and internet proficiency.
- Ability to create, open, save, organize, upload, and retrieve digital files.
- Basic familiarity with Google Docs, Microsoft Word, or equivalent word-processing software.
- Basic familiarity with Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, or equivalent spreadsheet software.
- Ability to read and follow written instructions, templates, standards, procedures, and rubrics.
- Basic professional written English communication.
- Attention to detail and willingness to review work for accuracy.
- Basic online research ability.
- Ability to organize information consistently.
- Typing proficiency of approximately 40 words per minute with at least 95% accuracy.
Desired Skills
Role-specific professional capabilities that strongly support success in this position.
Curriculum Content Organization
Organize instructional resources, standards, assessments, activities, and supporting materials into consistent structures.
Assessment Item Development
Create structured multiple-choice, short-answer, essay, and other assessment materials.
Question Bank Development
Build and maintain organized collections of assessment questions using defined fields and metadata.
Spreadsheet & Curriculum Data Organization
Use spreadsheets to organize curriculum resources, assessment information, objectives, categories, and status.
Learning Objective Alignment
Match instructional materials and assessments to provided learning objectives, competencies, standards, or requirements.
Template & Standards Compliance
Follow established templates, rubrics, naming conventions, formatting rules, and production requirements.
Content Review & Quality Control
Identify missing information, duplication, formatting inconsistencies, obvious errors, and misalignment.
Educational Content Development
Assist in creating exercises, activities, assessments, instructional resources, and curriculum-support materials.
Digital File & Document Management
Maintain organized digital curriculum files and records.
Professional Written Communication
Communicate questions, corrections, findings, and project status clearly and professionally.
Examples of Work You May Produce
How to Get Certified
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