Company
MGT is a leading provider of technology and advisory solutions serving state, local, and education
government agencies (SLED) across the United States. Through client partnerships, MGT’s almost
1,000 employees impact communities for good by managing and securing critical networks, solving
complex human capital and fiscal problems, elevating education systems, and advancing equity as a
performance imperative. MGT partners with thousands of agencies as a trusted advisor delivering
solutions that improve technology, operational, and economic performance to help communities thrive.
Founded in 1975, MGT initiated an ambitious restart in 2016, broadening the solutions portfolio to provide the most specialized solutions, tackling the most mission-critical problems that live at the top of the public agency leadership agenda. MGT drives over 20% compound annual organic growth and utilizes programmatic mergers and acquisitions to grow capabilities, attract top talent, and accelerate growth scale. Since 2020, MGT has successfully completed 10 acquisitions, driving over 60% compound annual inorganic growth.
Celebrating its 50th year in 2025, the firm attracts exceptional talent and empowers them to exceed client expectations as they navigate the dynamic demands of the clients they serve.
MGT’s Advisory Services group is dedicated to dramatically improving learning and life outcomes for all children. They believe that great public schools and high-quality education have the potential to be lifechanging, especially for students in underserved communities. They partner with leaders in government, philanthropy, and other education organizations and draw on their experience in the education space to solve complex problems facing public schools and communities. They deliver customized services and products – including data, finance, and instructional tools – from initial design through the last step of execution.
MGT’s work environment encompasses flexible and remote work options, a commitment to equity, and nationally respected teams in management consulting and technology services. We also offer opportunities to make a profound social impact through innovative projects, and professional development opportunities for career growth.
Opportunity
Reporting to the Vice President of Curriculum, the Director, Curriculum Development and Production will lead the development of high-quality, standards-aligned curriculum and instructional materials from concept through print-ready production. This is a true player-coach role: you will lead Curriculum Leads and subject-area teams while remaining deeply engaged in the work yourself—developing and refining curriculum, solving complex instructional challenges, and stepping into critical deliverables when needed.
- Lead Curriculum Development: Own multiple complex curriculum workstreams from initial concept and content planning through writing, revision, quality assurance, and print-ready production.
- Remain Hands-On: Personally write, develop, review, and refine curriculum and instructional materials, modeling the quality and pace expected of the broader team.
- Ensure Instructional Excellence: Maintain a high bar for instructional quality, coherence, rigor, usability, accuracy, and standards alignment, including TEKS, ELPS, RBIS, and other Texas instructional requirements.
- Lead and Develop Teams: Manage, coach, and develop Curriculum Leads while providing clear direction to writers, editors, subject matter experts, and other contributors.
- Drive Execution: Establish priorities, delegate effectively, make timely decisions, and provide actionable feedback to keep complex workstreams on scope, schedule, and quality standards.
- Partner with Clients: Work directly with clients to understand priorities, translate feedback into actionable direction, navigate evolving requirements, and resolve content and product challenges.
- Manage Partners: Oversee external vendors and production partners, setting expectations, reviewing work, resolving quality issues, and holding partners accountable for deliverables.
- Collaborate Across Functions: Partner with project management, production, assessment, editorial, operations, and other teams to resolve dependencies and move development forward.
- Contribute Strategically: Bring strong instructional judgment to curriculum strategy, product decisions, problem-solving, and the development of scalable, high-quality solutions.
Ideal Candidate
You are an accomplished curriculum-development leader who combines deep instructional expertise with the ability and willingness to do the work yourself. You have successfully led complex, large-scale curriculum development while managing high-performing teams, and you are comfortable operating with urgency, ambiguity, and high expectations for both quality and execution.
- Deep Curriculum Expertise: 8+ years of experience in curriculum design, instructional materials development, educational publishing, or a related field, including significant experience developing comprehensive, standards-aligned curriculum.
- Texas Expertise: Strong knowledge of the Texas instructional landscape, including TEKS, ELPS, RBIS, and relevant instructional materials requirements.
- End-to-End Development Experience: Demonstrated success taking large-scale curriculum products from concept through development, quality assurance, and print/digital production.
- Player-Coach Leadership: 5+ years of people-management experience with the ability to lead, coach, delegate, and hold teams accountable while personally producing high-quality curriculum work.
- Instructional Judgment: Deep understanding of research-based instructional practices, curriculum coherence, standards alignment, and the translation of instructional frameworks into practical lessons, assessments, and resources.
- Complex Project Leadership: Experience managing multiple curriculum workstreams, contributors, dependencies, vendors, and aggressive timelines without sacrificing quality.
- Client-Facing Experience: Experience working directly with clients, state education agencies, districts, publishers, or other senior education stakeholders.
- High-Ownership Mindset: Strong judgment, initiative, urgency, and comfort making decisions and solving problems in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Strong Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to provide clear, actionable feedback and work effectively across internal and external teams.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Education, Educational Leadership, or a related field preferred.
Areas of Specialty
Candidates should bring deep expertise in one or more of the following areas; experience spanning multiple areas is strongly preferred:
- Mathematics: K–12 mathematics curriculum, instructional progressions, conceptual development, procedural fluency, problem-solving, and research-based mathematics instruction.
- Social Studies: K–12 history, geography, civics, government, economics, and/or political science, with experience developing rigorous, age-appropriate instructional materials.
- Assessment: Standards-aligned formative and summative assessment design, item development, assessment architecture, rigor/cognitive demand, and measurement of student learning.
Location & Travel
- Work Commitment: This is a hands-on leadership role with periods of intensive curriculum development and production. During these periods, candidates should expect to work approximately 50 hours per week to meet critical project deadlines and maintain the quality standards expected of the team.
- Travel: Willingness to travel based on project and client needs.
Learn More
The Knowledge Leaders search process is thorough and may include: a written assessment, multiple interviews (recorded and in person), background and social media checks, employment and education verifications, a drug screen, and professional reference checking. After all, our mission is to transform education by recruiting the best world leaders.
Submit your resume to Peggy Williams.
Knowledge Leaders, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and candidates for employment. Knowledge Leaders, LLC prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
