Curriculum Manager Online Masters

Are you an entrepreneur at heart and passionate about education? Do you thrive in an agile environment with a start-up mentality? Join our fresh and forward-thinking team within an established institution. Are you ready to make an impact in education and explore new paths? Then you could be our new colleague for the Online Masters team.

The Curriculum Manager for online master's programmes is responsible for overseeing curriculum, content, quality assurance, and continuous improvement with a focus on digital delivery. This role ensures high-quality, engaging content, collaborating with faculty and the academic director to develop future programme content, enhance design, and suggest innovations. The manager also evaluates tools like the LMS to optimise delivery and standardise processes.

The Curriculum Manager oversees programme administration, coordinates execution, and develops efficient work processes to ensure smooth operation while maintaining a focus on quality assurance throughout the programme lifecycle. We are searching for a skilled and motivated self-starter for this role.

You will be part of our Online Masters team that prepares the launch for two new Online Master programmes. This position reports to the Associate Director of the Online Master programmes and focuses on coordinating the content creation process rather than creating the content itself.

Your daily activities and responsibilities include:

• Effectively managing the programme operations and the delivery of the educational programmes.
• Planning, organising and executing the logistics and administration of the programmes to the highest professional service standard
• Supporting the preparation of the academic year and scheduling the programme
• Collecting and providing information and updates about the department’s curricula, courses, electives, instructors, credits, and student eligibility criteria
• Ensuring the timely delivery of complete and accurate course outlines
• Organising alignment and best-practice sharing between the programme’ s instructors
• Ensuring that all Canvas pages are of good quality and accessible for students on time
• Supporting the creating and documentation of the programme assessment plan
• Ensuring that assessment policies and guidelines are observed.
• Supporting with academic quality assurance; implementing short term and long-term QA loops
• Maintaining an overview of the quality of the courses, the programme
• Exchanging best practices with education coordinators of other departments and contribute to the community 
• Working to align the educational vision of the programmes
• Ensuring consistency within and across courses, focusing on coherence and alignment with programme goal

• At least three years of working experience with coordination of (educational) programmes
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English
• Proficient in Microsoft office 365, knowledge of Canvas or other similar learning platform desirable
• Ability to take initiative and programme ownership
• Ability to work independently and in a team (team player)
• Organisational talent - efficient, accurate and ‘on top of things’
• Flexibility and willingness to work outside of standard business hours
• Focused on quality awareness
• Strong customer orientation
• Ability to think critically to make timely decision

Preferably you also have

• The ability to collaborate with others on a common goal
• Experience with Online Masters/education and a true believer of this vision of next step higher education

We offer an ambitious, international and dynamic environment, in which we compete with the top business schools in Europe. You will be part of a close, innovation-driven team on a vibrant university campus. Your ambition and personal drive will be greatly valued and we invest in personal development. We make sure you feel good about yourself, that you enjoy your work and that you grow in your profession.

You will also get:

• A salary between € 4,000 – € 4,800 gross per month on fulltime basis (ex. holiday allowance), based on your education, knowledge and work experience.
• 25 holidays and 12 ADV days.
• Annual 8% holiday allowance.
• Variable end of year performance bonus.
• Hybrid working
• Travel cost reimbursement and working from home allowance.
• The opportunity to participate in our collective health insurance.
• Access to all facilities on campus.
• Participation in our collective pension scheme.
• The possibility to travel with NS business card.

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (RSM BV) is one of Europe’s most international and innovative business schools. Its primary focus is to develop business leaders with international careers who can become a force for positive change by carrying their innovative mindset into a sustainable future. RSM BV is privately funded and providesa first-class portfolio of MBA and executive programmes with an international team of 150 staff working from the university campus in Rotterdam.

RSM BV offers an environment where the staff is encouraged to embrace change as a challenge in helping the organisation reaching its goals and those of its students. The working atmosphere at RSM BV is informal and communication lines are short. Being an independent and commercial company within the Erasmus University, the situation of RSM BV is sometimes complex and challenging. At the same time the company itself it small enough to maintain personal contacts and be able to have an overview of what’s going on throughout the organisation. The environment is culturally diverse and very international.

RSM BV is located in a pleasant and relatively small office, based at the Erasmus University campus in Rotterdam. It’s a lively environment, with students, staff and different companies and restaurants. The office is easy to reach by public transport as well as by car.

RSM BV is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages applications from candidates of all genders, ethnicities and nationalities. RSM BV values internal mobility; therefore internal candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information, please visit the RSM BV website: www.rsm.nl

Would you first like to learn more about the position or about RSM BV? Please contact us at recruitment@rsm.nl

Due to the fact that RSM BV has a hybrid working set-up where we expect you to be in the office the majority of the week, we are looking for candidates that currently live in The Netherlands and within a reasonable travel distance from Rotterdam.

If you see yourself as a person who thrives to work in an innovative, stimulating and growing environment, please send in a CV and cover letter (in English) to Saskia Piercy, HR Advisor, Rotterdam School of Management BV using the application button.