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Curriculum Associates

Associate Specialist, Engagement

🇺🇸 Remote - Tucson, AZ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $38K - $59K 💻 Other 🗓️ April 9th, 2026
K-12 K-8

Edtech.com's Summary

Curriculum Associates, LLC is hiring an Associate Specialist, Engagement. The role involves scheduling professional learning sessions with educational sites or districts, maintaining accurate session and portfolio records, engaging educators through various communication channels, and collaborating with internal teams to ensure alignment and capacity for professional learning delivery.

Highlights
  • Schedule professional learning sessions for individual sites or multi-site district implementations.
  • Communicate consistently with educators via email, Zoom meetings, and phone calls.
  • Maintain accurate session planning notes and portfolio record keeping.
  • Require working knowledge of regional and national capacity to meet scheduling demands.
  • Collaborate with Sales, PSMs, and PL Leads to align implementations and plan sessions.
  • Analyze data to drive scheduling strategies and targeted communications to secure educator buy-in.
  • Minimum 1 year experience in classroom or edtech educator-facing role.
  • Familiarity with K-12 education landscape and adult learning best practices.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
  • Salary range from $37,875 to $59,375 with benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with employer match, paid holidays, and flexible vacation/sick policy.

Associate Specialist, Engagement Full Description

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation's K-8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Essential duties/responsibilities:
1. Schedule professional learning sessions with individual sites or multi-site district
implementations 
2. Consistently reach out to educators via email, zoom meetings, and phone calls 
3. Must maintain accurate session planning notes to streamline shift handoff to Resource Strategy
Ops for assignment and PL Specialist for session planning 
4. Must support accurate record keeping within individual portfolios including updating work
types to reflect recommended PL, contact information, and monitoring reconciliation to ensure
accurate delivery 
5. Must have a working knowledge of regional and national capacity to meet scheduling demands.
6. Must collaborate with Sales, PSMs, and PL Leads within individual portfolio to ensure
implementation alignment. This could include implementation meetings or BOY/MOY/EOY to
plan unscheduled PL sessions. 

Required Job Skills and Abilities:
1. Capability to prioritize high volumes of work with intrinsic motivation to meet elevated levels of
success. 
2. Ability to be strategic and solutions-oriented to engage customers. 
3. Knowledge of CA's professional learning offerings and products with continued persistence to
deepen command of content as content and products evolve. 
4. Develop, adapt, and maintain management systems to support portfolio scheduling by
gathering, verifying, interpreting, and acting on account information from various sources. 
5. Ability to analyze data to drive scheduling strategies and targeted educator communication to
secure buy-in. 
6. A foundational understanding of regional and national capacity and certification to meet
scheduling demands.
7. Strong listening skills, effective written and verbal communicator able to tailor information to
different audiences based on context 
8. Highly organized and detail-oriented with ability to leverage multiple data sources to make
quick and effective decisions 
9. Seeks opportunities to drive continuous improvement and efficiency via systems-focused
thinking
10. Strong problem-solving skills and confidence; approaches obstacles with solution-oriented mindset, creativity, objectivity, authority, calm, and professionalism 
11. Skilled at relationship-building with a relentless service orientation, focused on delivering the best possible outcome to internal and external stakeholders 

Required Experience and Education
1. A minimum of 1 year of experience in a classroom setting and/or in edtech in an educator-facing role 
2. Familiarity with the K-12 education landscape, with a high-level understanding of adult learning best practices 
3. Experience in working in a high-volume operations setting 
4. Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, required

Pay Range: This role's range is $37,875 - 59,375. The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that Curriculum Associates considers in making compensation decisions based on our Compensation Philosophy. Actual base pay within that range will vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, prior experience and relevant skill sets. At Curriculum Associates, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances for each case. The Company recognizes that minimum wage varies by location and will ensure all compensation decisions comply with applicable state and local laws.

Benefits: Benefit eligible employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees can enroll in our company's 401k plan and receive an employer match. Employees have access to a flexible vacation and sick policy in addition to twelve paid holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's, as well as a number of additional perks and benefits.