School District Project Manager

About CSA Education

At CSA Education, we're more than just an educational content and services provider – we’re a dedicated curriculum development partner committed to our clients’ success. Our core values guide every decision we make and shape every interaction with our clients and staff. We pride ourselves on our welcoming culture, our dedicated team, and our innovative approach to high-quality solutions.

Position Summary

The School District Project Manager serves as a client-facing and governance manager for complex, multi-stakeholder K-12 school district and state-level engagements. This role combines high-level project management and client success partnership.

The Senior Director is responsible for the fulfillment of all contractual obligations for school district curriculum projects, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, high-stakes educational projects on time and on budget. This role oversees the day-to-day management of assigned projects, guides cross-functional internal teams and independent contractors, and collaborates with the team to design scalable workflows (including AI-enabled systems).

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Client Relationship: Serve alongside the School Solutions partner as the primary face of the project and a trusted advisor to client district and state educational leaders, guiding project scope, success criteria, and long-term partnership strategy.
• Expectation Management: Proactively manage client expectations, ensure high levels of satisfaction, and confidently lead internal and client-facing meetings.
• Communication: Maintain clear reporting and timely communication across all internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Project Architecture: Along with the project team, create, implement, and maintain project plans, schedules, timelines, budgets, folder structures, and operational frameworks from the ground up.
• Workflow Innovation: Collaborating with the project team, design and implement scalable workflows, including AI-enabled processes and automation to improve efficiency, quality, and content compliance.

• Cross-Functional Teams: Coordinate cross-functional teams (curriculum, creative services, subject matter experts, instructional design, and production), ensuring collaboration, efficiency, and fidelity to instructional intent.
• Risk & Change Management: Proactively identify challenges, manage scope evolution, and address escalated issues regarding contract compliance, public-sector review cycles, and pilot feedback loops.
• Financial Management: Build and monitor complex project budgets aligned with organizational goals, manage revenue streams, provide invoicing information to Finance team, and oversee independent contractor resource allocation.

Competencies

• Client Retention & Relationship Development: Proven ability to build trust with high-level school district stakeholders.
• Operational Efficiency & Innovation: Mastery of project management fundamentals paired with an ability to build structured systems and integrate new technologies.
• Advanced Problem-Solving: Exceptional capability to translate complex project data into clear, actionable insights and resolve high-stakes crises.
• Communication Proficiency: Top-tier written, verbal, and presentation skills for executive audiences.
• Organization & Time Management: Exceptionally well-organized with the ability to manage multiple large, multi-year projects simultaneously.
  

Work Environment & Physical Demands

• Environment: This job operates in a fully remote home office environment within the 48 contiguous states. The employee is required to maintain high-speed internet access. Standard office hardware and software will be provided.
• Physical Demands: Occasional sitting, standing, walking, and the ability to lift up to 20 pounds of office supplies.
• Travel: Position requires up to 10% travel, primarily overnight, to attend in-person client meetings, district presentations, and educational conferences.

Required Education and Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Education, Project Management, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of content development and project management experience within the K-12 education at the district level, or educational technology sector.
• PM Leadership Experience: Proven track record of managing large-scale curriculum development and production projects and leading cross-functional editorial/creative teams of 10+ people.
• School District Expertise: Deep familiarity with the unique review cycles, compliance requirements, and approval processes inherent in state and district-level contracts.
• Financial Acumen: Demonstrated experience monitoring and meeting large project budgets.

Additional Details

1.    This is a remote-based part-time contract position, up to 30hrs per week.

2.    Contracted rate $5,000 per month

3.    Flexible schedule within regular business hours

4.    Must have own computer with Microsoft Office and a reliable internet connection.

EEO Statement

CSA Education LLC and its subsidiaries, including Zia Learning, provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, CSA Education LLC complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.