Curriculum Manager at Canonical

As a Curriculum Manager on the Credentials & Curriculum team, you’ll use your skills as a quick learner and effective communicator to balance an interest in open source communities, operating systems, DevOps and cloud technologies, scripting languages, and git repositories, with a passion for improving assessment and instructional content through  blueprinting, JTA surveys, and SME recruitment and management phases.

What your day will look like

• Working with stakeholders and cross-teams in analysing instructional design requests to determine technical resource requirements and project needs
• Creating relevant, engaging, accurate instructional, assessment, and supporting content based on blueprints, JTA surveys, item writing panels, SME guidance, and industry best practices
• Leading curriculum development efforts and manage multiple development projects through effective Agile techniques, regular meetings, privacy and security procedures, and SME recruitment and
• engagement to ensure extremely technical content is relevant, appropriately challenging, and offers the highest quality user experience.
• Act as internal Subject-Matter Expert (SME) for all products in verifying item and item instruction accuracy and determining exam delivery platform, specifications
• Working with technical vendors and internal teams to manage porting and transferring of content and user data in various internal and vendor-based systems, including GitHub repositories and JIRA

What we are looking for in you

• Effective communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams, vendors, and with internal stakeholders to ensure resources and needs align
• Relevant, engaging and accurate instructional design and assessment
• Industry best practices of exam blueprinting and job task analysis
• Strong initiative and leadership skills, Agile experience, and security and privacy assessment
• User-friendly, accessible methods of conveying highly technical information that is  relevant, appropriately challenging, and offers the highest quality user experience.
• Experience with GitHub repositories,CRMs, and JIRA
• Curiosity and the drive to learn highly complex technologies rapidly and autonomously in addition to working with SMEs.