Academic Curriculum and Content Development Manager
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Content manager leading Contour's India team producing Australian curriculum materials. Building AI-enabled QA systems, managing schedules, and aligning content with academic owners in Australia.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Contour's India content team across curriculum designers, content developers, question writers and markers
- Establish subject-by-subject quality standards against each study design
- Build checklists, KPIs and review points to maintain content quality
- Track output on a dashboard and intervene before schedule slippage
- Map VCAA, QCAA and NESA study-design or exam-format changes and deliver rework before the relevant term
- Return marked assignments within promised turnaround times
- Run marking calibration sessions for consistent grades and feedback
- Align expectations with Australian academic owners and brief the India team on changes
- Implement AI-drafted question variants, automated answer and formatting checks, syllabus tagging and workflow tracking
- Coach curriculum designers, content developers, writers and markers through 1:1s and performance conversations
- Plan function growth for new subjects, formats and volumes, including hiring when needed
- Diagnose and fix process causes of delays and post-release errors
- Report throughput, pass rates and rework to the VP of Global Enablement and Support and academic owners
Requirements:
- International exposure is essential: content built or led for a curriculum outside India, such as Australian VCE, QCE or HSC, IB, Cambridge IGCSE or A-levels, AP or SAT
- Regular work with academic owners, clients or examiners in another country
- Tech-forward, AI-first habits are essential: experience moving a content or QA step onto AI or automation, such as drafting, checking, tagging or tracking
- Experience leading a content or curriculum department spanning subjects beyond your specialism and held to an externally set standard
- Experience running a production schedule from brief to release while maintaining deadlines and quality
- Experience creating a checklist, KPI, dashboard or review step that made a standard visible and is still used
- Experience growing a content function into a new syllabus, format or larger group
- Experience leading performance conversations, including one that changed how someone worked
- Experience developing writers into bigger roles
- Hands-on experience in academic content, content development or publishing before managing it
- Excellent written English
- Clear, confident communication with academic owners in Australia
- Comfortable working across the India–Australia time difference
- Australian curriculum experience (VCE, QCE or HSC) preferred
- EdTech or education services background preferred
- Curriculum design, instructional design or assessment design experience preferred
- Experience with Zapier, Make, n8n, Apps Script, custom GPTs or AI workflows preferred
Benefits:
- Fully remote, anywhere in India
- Compensation is competitive and benchmarked to the role and your experience
- Compensation is discussed openly early in the process
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