Senior State Standards Specialist - ELA

Great Minds • Dc, DC

2d • Remote

About The Position

Great Minds is a mission-driven organization dedicated to providing students with meaningful, challenging content and educators with effective tools. We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich math, science, and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our products are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide, including Eureka Math, Wit & Wisdom, PhD Science, Geodes, and Arts & Letters ELA. We are entering a new stage of growth, focused on building connected, customer-informed experiences across the full educator journey and aiming to become a true partner in impact.

This role reports to the Sr Manager State Adoptions and will support and collaborate on preparing Great Minds curriculum standards alignments, ensuring accuracy for early years (K-4) through middle years (6-8) RFP and state instructional materials adoption requirements, with a specific focus on ELA. The Senior State Standards Specialist will function as a lead product expert within the Proposals team, supporting Sales with product area questions and contributing subject matter expertise to district RFPs and state instructional materials adoption submissions. This position will analyze products using a standards alignment lens, lead projects to update and improve standards alignments for product submission, and conduct quality assurance reviews of custom curriculum alignments. This role is a key conduit of product knowledge within the Proposals team and for the Sales and Product teams.

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.

Nice To Haves

• Deep knowledge of how Great Minds products align to market demand.
• Ability to work on cross-functional teams with a collaborative approach, equally comfortable discussing RFP and state submission proposal requirements with proposal writers, content development with Sales and Product stakeholders, and copy and positioning with product marketers.
• Strong organizational habits to ensure successful goal achievement and timely contributions to decision making.
• Outstanding capacity to handle precise and detail-oriented work.
• Ability to problem solve to create high-quality product submissions by established deadlines.
• Proficiency with technology and comfortable learning new applications.
• Proficiency at both working independently and collaborating as part of a team.
• Experience with Loopio or other RFP automation software and maintaining RFP language repositories.

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.
• Summarize the alignment data and highlight 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.

Benefits

• The base salary range for this position is $80,000-$91,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations..
• The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior