Type of Vacancy: Salaried, full-time
Start date: August-September 2024
Location: New York, NY
Report to: Senior Manager, Program or Director, Program
Supervises: Dependent on project, Manager, Program may be a Project Leader with project team supervision and leadership development responsibilities
Compensation: The full salary range for this position is $80,000 - $121,007 annually. There are two types of experience being considered for this role: Experience that is directly relevant to the role and Total Working Experience, in all fields. This includes: internships and consulting work. In collaboration with the hiring manager, the People and Culture team calculates experience based on the candidate’s most current resume. When calculating the offer, consideration is given to candidates that possess additional qualifications (i.e., desired qualifications). Teaching Lab will generally cap salaries for new employees at 105% of the midpoint to allow for continued growth in the role over time.
Teaching Lab is an equal-opportunity employer committed to reflecting the diversity of the students we serve. We pursue equity as both a means and an end and enthusiastically welcome candidates of all backgrounds to apply for this role.
WHO WE ARE
Teaching Lab is a nonprofit organization with a mission to fundamentally shift the paradigm of teacher professional learning to achieve educational equity. We envision a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life-long learning and meaningful lives. In partnership with teachers, we transform professional learning from the ground up to dramatically improve student outcomes. We also work with school, district, and state leaders to create the instructional systems necessary to support these changes. To learn more about Teaching Lab, explore our website at
www.teachinglab.org.
SUMMARY OF POSITION
The Manager, Program - Coaching collaborates with others within the Program team and across the organization to meet Teaching Lab’s programmatic goals, takes ownership of the organization’s systems and processes, and implements them with consistency and success. In particular, the Manager, Program - Coaching, Bilingual ELA will provide in-person coaching to teachers and leaders in bilingual (Spanish language) settings in the New York City Department of Education
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Primary responsibilities for the Manager, Program - Coaching include:
- Implement excellent programmatic services
- Weekly, provide in-person coaching to teacher and/or leaders, engaging in the following: Engaging in phases of a coaching cycle of inquiry, including: Identifying needs and determining a focus; setting goals; implementation & support, which can include any of the following: conducting observations and providing feedback through instructional walkthroughs, providing in-person modeling, and/or co-teaching with teachers; analyzing & discussing data; Facilitating micro professional learning in PLCs; Collaborate/”coach the coach” with building and district level leaders; Debrief teacher leader coaching with school leaders
- Ongoing, engage in administrative and Teaching Lab programmatic responsibilities, including but not limited to: Creating a coaching plan for each coaching cycle; Completing one coaching log per coaching interaction; Collecting and reporting data to measure the impact and progress toward project goals, including but not limited to: conducting classroom and teacher coaching observations, collecting student work samples, administering educator surveys, supporting teacher leaders in administering student surveys; Attending internal planning and work meetings; Completing other tasks assigned by the Project Lead to be responsive to the needs of educators
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills, time management, and workflow management while attending to the diverse needs of partners and keeping a radically responsive orientation
- Support the development of systems, tools, and processes to support effective and efficient implementation of services to scale Teaching Lab’s partnerships and impact over time
- Maintain positive and responsive relationships with clients and support with contract renewals to sustain impact on teacher and student learning; support on business development, as needed
- Design high-quality, research based, user-centered professional learning content, services, and tools/resources
- Act as a content area expert aligned with organizational needs, i.e., has some area of content expertise (like subject-area expertise in ELA, math, science, or social studies curriculum and/or instructional expertise, or general expertise in coaching for continuous improvement or state/system level leadership development, etc.) that they bring to bear on aligned projects as well as support team members to build their content expertise
- Regularly design or adapt content and then facilitate professional learning with teacher leaders and school leaders, including but not limited to: Curriculum planning and implementation; Identifying research-based instructional strategies for teacher leaders to implement with their peers in professional learning community (PLC); Analyzing student outcomes data and utilizing data to inform instructional decisions; Supporting school leaders to implement an action plan and monitor progress
- Engage in Teaching Lab’s design process to develop content, including drafting, feedback cycles, pilot partnerships (as applicable), and finalization steps (e.g., adhere to Teaching Lab’s style and branding guidelines when developing new content)
- Apply best practices for virtual and in-person adult learning in the design of professional learning content
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration
- Collaborate with others on the Program team to continuously refine and develop high-quality professional learning content and implement professional learning
- Work with Teaching Lab team members to identify and engage new and existing school system partners on scopes of work that drive towards impact and outcomes for teachers and students
- Collaborate with the research and learning function to adapt and improve Teaching Lab’s high-quality Support Teaching Lab’s data collection and impact evaluation processes
- Engage in continuous learning
- Stay abreast of key research and guidance in the field, attend learning experiences to build skills and competencies in project management, client management, coaching, and adult facilitation
- Engage in personal and organized learning opportunities as a team member at an organization which champions racial equity and centers anti-racism
Perform other duties as assigned by the Senior Manager, Program, Director, Program, Senior Director, Program and/or Executive Team.