Curriculum Editor

Springboard Collaborative closes the opportunity gap by closing the gap between home and school. By enlisting families as teaching partners, Springboard increases students’ access to instructional time, thereby improving learning outcomes. We envision a world in which educators and families work together to help children unlock their full potential. The Curriculum Editor supports this goal by ensuring our curricular and org-wide materials promote impact and empower students and families to succeed.

About the role

This is a remote position, and candidates must reside in the U.S. The Curriculum Editor will report to the Assistant Vice President, Curriculum & Instruction, and work as part of the Product & Services department. This is a great opportunity to support an entrepreneurial team to maximize the impact of a rapidly growing organization.

Priorities in the First Year

• Resolve at least 90% of editorial review requests on time and to the requester's satisfaction, ensuring all materials meet editorial, accessibility, and quality standards prior to publication.
• Complete editorial work from backlog through final review, delivering assigned work that meets quality expectations, design specifications, and agreed-upon timelines.
• Strengthen organizational editorial and accessibility practices by facilitating one digital accessibility enablement session per quarter and maintaining current editorial and accessibility guidance for cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the overall editorial quality of organization-wide digital and printed materials, providing editorial support across enterprise materials to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment with organizational standards.
  • Edit materials for grammar, punctuation, and adherence to editorial style.
  • Analyze materials (print and digital) for clearness of expression, logical flaws, repetitiveness, and uniformity of design.
  • Prepare training manuals, guides, and other support materials for conferences and events.
• Maintain a unified style guide for all digital and printed content and serve as an org-wide shared service for editorial support.
  • Maintain style and format guides for various editing projects across various media (print and digital) and collateral types.
  • Ensure that internal partners are trained in, and adhere to, style expectations.
  • Advise internal staff on questions regarding editorial style expectations.
• Collaborate with other individuals and teams to develop high-quality materials.
  • Consult and collaborate with partners to ensure use cases and expectations are well understood.
  • Apply the appropriate level of editorial review—from developmental and substantive editing to copy editing and proofreading—based on the purpose, audience, and stage of development.
  • Maintain editorial workflows and systems to ensure timely, efficient, and high-quality editorial support across the organization.
• Ensure curricular materials are instructionally sound, accurate, and aligned.
  • Apply your content expertise to edit and refine K–5 literacy and math instructional materials, ensuring standards alignment, instructional soundness, and coherence across related assets.
  • Conduct research as needed to ensure technical quality and accuracy of materials.
  • Work with internal and external subject-matter experts to ensure materials are accurate.

Competencies

• Writing Precision & Editorial Excellence: You demonstrate technical mastery of grammar, syntax, and formatting to produce content that upholds our organization's professional credibility.
• Brand Integrity & Storytelling: You translate our organizational impact into a unified, high-integrity voice that inspires investment and ensures mission consistency across all channels and stakeholders.
• Professional Reliability: You meet deadlines, deliver high-quality work compliant with the standards of practice, and take ownership of mistakes in your editorial work.
• Strategic Business Partnering: You act as an internal consultant, using your editorial expertise to solve problems and align work with the company's mission.
• Process Reliability & Improvement: You design, maintain, and optimize low-risk, highly efficient workflows for your work and use tools to maximize your operational capacity and ensure quality consistency.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional editing experience.
• 2+ years of experience editing or working with K-12 educational curricula.
• Experience creating and/or maintaining style guides.
• Experience managing editorial workflows and internal processes.

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise in the Chicago Manual of Style guidelines.
• Experience as an elementary classroom teacher.

Pay

The midpoint of the compensation band for this role is $87,188. The actual level and corresponding salary will be based on compensable factors such as job-relevant education, experience, training, licensure, and demonstrated competencies. You may also be eligible for Springboard's bonus program.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance: Options include PPO and High Deductible/HSA, with a cash stipend for those who waive Springboard coverage.
• Disability Coverage: Fully covered short & long-term disability.
• Retirement: 403(b) retirement contributions with up to 6% salary match after the first twelve months.
• Paid Time Off: Four weeks (20 days) annually, plus all 11 federal holidays, two floating holidays, weekdays between December 25th and January 1st, and your birthday.
• Sick Days: Uncapped sick days.
• Paid Leave: 12 weeks of parental leave after the first 6 months of employment, and 5 days of marriage leave.
• Technology: All employees receive a Springboard laptop and an optional monitor.
• Professional Development: $2000/year for personal & professional development.
• Wellness: Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing support for stress/anxiety, finance, law, family, substance abuse, grief, and more.

Schedule

This role is remote, with up to quarterly travel required to participate in team and org-wide retreats. Applications are welcome from any location within the United States.