Senior Curriculum Mapping Specialist

Job Title: Senior Curriculum Mapping Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote — Work From Home

Level: Senior

About the Role

The Senior Curriculum Mapping Specialist is responsible for developing, maintaining, reviewing, and improving curriculum maps to ensure alignment between learning outcomes, course content, teaching activities, assessment methods, and institutional or professional standards. This role works closely with academic leaders, curriculum designers, subject-matter experts, faculty members, and quality assurance teams to strengthen curriculum coherence, identify learning gaps, reduce unnecessary duplication, and support continuous academic improvement.

The position is fully remote and requires strong analytical, documentation, stakeholder coordination, and educational quality assurance capabilities. The successful candidate will help institutions use structured curriculum mapping processes and digital tools to support consistent, measurable, and outcome-focused learning programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive curriculum maps across academic programmes, courses, modules, and learning pathways.
• Map programme learning outcomes to course-level objectives, teaching content, learning activities, and assessment methods.
• Evaluate curriculum alignment to identify gaps, overlaps, inconsistencies, and unnecessary repetition across courses.
• Review curriculum documentation to ensure learning outcomes are clearly defined, measurable, and appropriately sequenced.
• Analyse the relationship between intended learning outcomes, instructional strategies, and assessment approaches.
• Coordinate curriculum mapping exercises with academic departments, faculty members, programme coordinators, and subject-matter experts.
• Establish standard templates, mapping frameworks, documentation procedures, and quality review criteria.
• Assess curriculum coverage against institutional requirements, qualification frameworks, accreditation standards, and relevant professional benchmarks.
• Identify opportunities to improve learning progression, content sequencing, interdisciplinary integration, and programme coherence.
• Review proposed curriculum changes and assess their potential impact on programme outcomes and course dependencies.
• Maintain accurate curriculum mapping databases, matrices, version histories, and supporting documentation.
• Use curriculum management systems, spreadsheets, learning management systems, and reporting tools to organise and analyse curriculum information.
• Prepare curriculum alignment reports, gap analyses, coverage summaries, and recommendations for academic decision-makers.
• Monitor curriculum review schedules and coordinate the collection of feedback and supporting evidence.
• Support the development of curriculum improvement plans based on assessment results, stakeholder feedback, and academic performance indicators.
• Facilitate virtual workshops and consultation sessions to explain mapping methodologies and promote consistent implementation.
• Collaborate with assessment and quality assurance teams to verify that evaluation methods appropriately measure stated learning outcomes.
• Maintain clear records of curriculum decisions, review comments, approved changes, and outstanding improvement actions.
• Track emerging developments in curriculum design, competency-based education, learning outcomes, and academic quality assurance.
• Recommend improvements to curriculum governance processes and reporting practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Leadership, Academic Development, or a related discipline; a master's degree is preferred.
• Significant experience in curriculum mapping, curriculum development, academic quality assurance, instructional design, or programme evaluation.
• Strong understanding of programme learning outcomes, course learning outcomes, competency frameworks, and constructive alignment.
• Experience mapping learning outcomes to teaching activities, assessments, and qualification requirements.
• Knowledge of curriculum design principles, instructional strategies, assessment methodologies, and learning progression.
• Familiarity with higher education, vocational education, professional training, or institutional curriculum governance processes.
• Understanding of accreditation frameworks, educational quality standards, and relevant qualification frameworks.
• Experience identifying curriculum gaps, duplicated content, sequencing issues, and inconsistencies across academic programmes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and collaborative document management platforms.
• Experience using curriculum management systems, learning management systems, or academic programme databases.
• Strong analytical and information management skills, including the ability to interpret complex curriculum structures.
• Excellent technical writing, report preparation, and documentation capabilities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with academic leaders, faculty members, programme coordinators, and other stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple curriculum review projects and deadlines.
• High attention to detail and commitment to maintaining accurate, consistent, and traceable curriculum records.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment while coordinating effectively across departments and time zones.
• Professional integrity and discretion when handling institutional records, programme documentation, and academic information.

What We Offer

• A fully remote working arrangement based in the United Arab Emirates.
• Opportunities to contribute to curriculum development and academic quality improvement initiatives.
• A collaborative working environment involving academic and education professionals.
• Opportunities for professional development in curriculum design, educational assessment, and quality assurance.
• A structured full-time role with opportunities to support diverse academic programmes.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit an updated CV highlighting their curriculum mapping, academic quality assurance, curriculum development, and educational programme evaluation experience.

Application Subject: Application – Senior Curriculum Mapping Specialist (UAE Remote)

Candidates should confirm applicable employment arrangements, residency requirements, and work authorization before accepting an offer.

• Work Arrangement Clarification: This is a 100% remote position. Any physical campus reviews, in-person academic consultations, classroom observations, or institutional inspections must be conducted by appropriately qualified local personnel. Formal curriculum approvals, accreditation submissions, and statutory academic sign-offs must remain with the relevant authorized institutions or professionals.