Head of Curriculum Production

Head of Curriculum Production
About Us
Exam Papers Plus is one of the UK's best-known names in 11+ preparation, with a large bank of exam questions and practice papers and a learning platform that puts them in front of children and parents. Over the next 12 to 18 months, we will launch several new curriculum areas at once, across different subjects, age groups and assessment formats.
About the Role
You are the single person accountable for getting each new curriculum area out of the door on time, to specification and to budget. You are the Project Manager for every new vertical, from sizing and costing it through to publication on the platform, and you own the quality of what ships.
This is an educational production and project management role. It is not a marketing, SEO, journalism, editorial or exam board role, and you will not be writing the questions yourself.
Expect three or four programmes in production at once, across unrelated subjects, some with existing authors and some needing a subject network, a brief and a workflow built from nothing. You will need to be exceptionally organised, exacting on detail, and comfortable saying that something cannot be done in the time available if it compromises quality.
You will report to the CEO, sit on the leadership team, manage a small in-house team and hold your own freelance budget.
What you'll be responsible for:

• Delivery plan for every new curriculum area: scope, schedule, budget, milestones and risks, run in Linear with stage gates and visible to the whole business.
• Sizing and costing each programme before we commit and saying plainly what is achievable.
• Author network: finding, testing, briefing and managing freelance subject specialists in each subject, including from scratch.
• Quality standard: owning the review process so every question is correct, on specification and consistent, and fixing the process when something slips through.
• Production workflow: running a repeatable process, including AI-assisted drafting, tagging and first-pass checks, so each new programme follows the same system.
• Protecting delivery on the core 11+ business while new programmes are built.

What you'll bring:

• Experience delivering learning resources or exam practice material for an educational publisher or edtech company, accountable for delivery rather than authorship.
• A track record of running several production projects at once and landing them on time, to spec and to budget.
• Fluency in project management tools (we use Linear, ClickUp and Outline) and exceptional organisation. Nothing gets dropped or quietly delayed.
• Experience commissioning and managing freelance authors and subject specialists, including building a network in a subject you did not know.
• A quality assurance mindset and a high tolerance for detail at volume.
• Practical experience using AI and automation tools (Claude, n8n or equivalents) inside a production workflow.

What success looks like:

• Every curriculum area we commit to this year ships on the agreed date, to spec and within budget.
• At least one programme in a new subject taken from no authors and no material to published resources, on schedule.
• One project management system the executive team trusts without asking.
• A repeatable production system, so a new programme takes weeks to stand up rather than months.

What's on offer:

• £65,000 to £75,000 depending on experience.
• Permanent, full time, hybrid with two days a week in our London office.
• 28 days' holiday and 6% employer pension contribution.
• Eligibility for the group bonus scheme.
• A seat on the leadership team, reporting to the CEO.
• You must be based in the UK with the right to work here

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