Title: Curriculum Manager Location: Hybrid Remote • West Covina, CA Curriculum Manager West Covina, Calif. | Office/other About our organization Since 1981, Options for Learning has been at the forefront of helping families break the cycle of poverty and improve their lives by providing tools to create a positive foundation for school, social, and life success. Our dedicated and passionate employees have helped our organization become one of Southern California's most innovative and progressive child development organizations, serving more than 9,600 children throughout the San Gabriel Valley. About this position The curriculum manager is responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs across all childcare sites. This role ensures that curriculum aligns with the organization’s mission, meets regulatory requirements, and promotes high-quality learning experiences for children, at various stages of development. What you’ll be doing - Overseeing the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs and curriculum across various age groups; - Ensuring curriculum aligns with state and federal educational standards, as well as organizational goals; - Leading curriculum quality assurance and continuous improvement initiatives; - Collaborating with supervisors, instructional coaches, and program directors to enhance student learning outcomes; - Collaborating with data team to analyze student performance data that will inform curriculum adjustments and instructional strategies; - Collaborating with training and professional development staff on curriculum-related trends and organizational needs; - Collaborating with family engagement team to develop resources for parents to reinforce classroom learning; - Developing training materials and lead workshops on instructional strategies and child development; - Integrating best practices in early childhood & school-age education, cultural inclusivity, and social-emotional learning; - Collaborating with community partners to enhance educational offerings and support services; - Representing the organization in professional networks and advocacy efforts related to early childhood education; - Staying current with educational trends, research, and best practices in curriculum design and early childhood education; - Supporting training, enrollment, grant writing and reporting efforts by providing curriculum-related data and narratives; - Abiding by all of Options for Learning’s policies; - Performing other duties as assigned. What you bring to the table - Bachelor’s degree in education, curriculum & instruction, or a related field; - Proven experience in curriculum development and educational leadership; - Strong knowledge of early childhood education and Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) and state early care and school-age care education standards; - Knowledge of early childhood curriculum, such as High Scope, Creative Curriculum, and approaches such as Project-Based Learning, Montessori, and play-based learning; - Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills; - Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines; - Familiarity with assessment tools and data-driven instruction; - Master's degree in education, curriculum & instruction, or a related field (preferred); - Experience working in nonprofit or community-based educational settings is a plus (preferred). What we can offer you - Medical/dental/vision for part- and full-time employees (organization pays up to 95% of employee's premiums; prorated for part-time); - Organization-paid and matching retirement plan; - Professional growth opportunities, including free child development courses and college reimbursement; - Generous and flexible PTO; - Dedicated, mission-driven colleagues, and much more! Job specifications - Reports to the vice president of learning and engagement; - Full-time, year-round position; - Eight-hour workday, four-day workweek; - Hybrid work schedule with approval by management; - Organization-wide winter break; - Limited evening or weekend work may be required; - Employment, responsibilities, compensation and other factors may be affected by changes in governmental regulations, the organization’s contracts, or at the organization’s discretion. Salary - $103,000-$138,000 per year (candidates should anticipate receiving an offer within the first quartile of the salary range).

• People Leadership: Provide leadership to support multi-site service hub • Initiate and support staffing requirements, coaching, training, and corrective action concerning employees and contracted partners; and succession planning. • Own the safety culture within the hub- inclusive of contracted partners and customers. • Execute daily Plan of the Day calls – prioritize and manage dispatch schedule. • Customer Point of Contact: Customer focused approach to build long term relationships with customers to deliver business objectives and meet contractual requirements. • Partner with CPM | Customer Performance Manager: Escalate customer concerns with priority. • Partner with cross-functional teams like Sales, Commercial Operations, Sourcing, Finance, HR to meet the deliverables. • Prioritize turbine performance to meet/exceed performance commitments. • Be innovative and engaged in all areas of facility operations aligned with individual site plans to include creative problem solving with LEAN thinking. • Lead operations within multi-site service hub ensuring weekly visits to each site; Drive safety focus. • Continue to grow customer relationship. • Team engagement and development.

• Execute Customer warranty claim evaluation and disposition in line with Warranty Policy and Standard Work • Interpret Customer NU Contract Warranty terms and conditions to determine claim validity • Review technical case resolution to support claim validity and disposition • Use Lean to drive culture, continuous improvement, and workstream productivity • Generate ideas to maximize Customer value and GE Gas Power business growth

• Work as a key member of the region Inquiry To Order (“ITO”) team in support of achieving the region’s and/or sub-region’s commitments, orders, sales, cash, operating profit, and margin targets for the applicable segment. • Collaborate with the region Sales, Operations, and functional teams. • Lead Complex Bidding processes for Mexico (CFE), Venezuela (Corpoelec, PDVSA) and Colombia Government Power & Oil State Owned Companies. • Lead the ITO proposal generation and contract formation process for high complexity/value projects across the segment with the intent of developing winning strategies to leverage successful deal closures while ensuring compliance with established guidelines for the Policy 5.0 risk management process. • Actively participate in commercial and technical meetings and contract negotiations with customers. • Support commercial operations for the combined Transactional and Contractual organizations, utilizing all associated ITO tools. • Prepare and lead the regional deal process in co-ordination with the Region Sales team and the local risk teams. • Support the regional Sales team before/during Customer meetings/negotiations. • Continuously identify and refine the proposal processes across the Core business, with special emphasis on Lean and simplification opportunities for improvement and waste reduction. • Support regional platform operating metrics, centered on offerings and individual productivity, to promote proposal throughput, yield, cost, and efficiency • Ensure process adherence to all government contracting requirements with support from GE legal resources. • Enforce order-booking requirements and manage the ITO-OTR turnover process to ensure the effective hand-off of contracts to the OTR team.