Delivery Manager - Curriculum

About the team   

The newly created school-dedicated curriculum development team will focus on enhancements to our curriculum as identified by teachers and administrators at one of our Connections Academy schools. The intent of the team is twofold: first for our customers to participate in our development cycle and get immediate value from enhancements that will save them time better spent on building relationships with students and differentiating instruction; and second for our PVS (Pearson Virtual Schools) teams to build relationships with our schools, understand their problems and opportunities, and appreciate how they are using our curriculum. The team is comprised of a product manager, a delivery manager, content developers, an assurance analyst, a content architecture and integration analyst, and an instructional designer.  

Role Description:  

We are seeking a talented Delivery Manager to oversee the successful execution of product and project deliverables for our customers. The ideal candidate will possess a strong blend of leadership, product development, problem-solving abilities, and communication skills. As a member of the school-dedicated team, the delivery manager will lead a development team to work with teachers and administrators to identify and prioritize school needs, develop their solutions, and test, validate, and deliver the solutions to our school customers. This role will be vital to fostering strong relationships, driving positive change, and managing teams.

What will you be working on?

• Deeply understand context of features (created by Product Management) in order to effectively break down, create and refine user stories with development team members, and clearly articulate functional and non-functional requirements and user story acceptance criteria. 
• Facilitation of team ceremonies including daily stand ups, development team backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and system demos. 
• Lead and oversee the successful delivery of products, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet the quality standards and requirements as defined by the Product Management team. 
• Effectively communicate work in progress, and outcomes to stakeholders, accommodating and negotiating their needs while ensuring precise alignment with organizational goals and priorities. Responsible for visually representing tasks and milestones of team deliverables. 
• Support your team in change management by providing context and helpful information, particularly during pivots in work. 
• Validate and accept team’s work, supplying required artifacts to satisfy User Story Acceptance Criteria to support Product Managements feature acceptance. 
• Track and socialize team performance goals and metrics, including team velocity and capacity, to manage healthy team backlog and work in progress. 
• Lead and inspire project teams, fostering collaborative and result - driven culture. Promote effective and transparent communication across teams and stakeholders to grow, win, and serve our customers. 
• Prioritize commitments with the development teams while taking product feedback into account to deliver the highest level of return on investment. 
• Rapidly identify, communicate, and escalate problem areas (risks and impediments) with appropriate urgency and develop creative solutions to overcome obstacles, ensuring timely team deliverables. 
• Identifies dependencies collaboratively, swiftly addressing and removing blockers as they arise. 
• Generate regular reports on project status, highlighting achievements, next steps, risks and recommended actions, and overall health of the project or product. 
• Comfortable leading teams of individuals over whom you have no formal authority - holding individuals accountable to committed actions and deadlines in a collaborative and constructive manner. 
• Facilitate creation of, maintain, and hold teams accountable to ways of working. 
• Creating and maintaining proper tool hygiene to represent your team's work including User Story creation and acceptance, team backlogs, and team dashboards. 

Location: This role works on a remote model and has the flexibility to work from home, flexibility in working hours may be required to cover all time zones across the US. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree or 3 to 5 years of job-related experience (preferably in the role of scrum master, project manager, or product owner) that provides the necessary knowledge, skill, and a