Manager, School Partnerships – Literacy (ELA)

Jobtailor; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a dedicated Professional Learning Specialist to lead high-quality math-focused professional learning for teachers and leaders in Reading, PA. The role emphasizes partnership-building, workshop design, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful Carnegie Learning implementations.

You will design and deliver workshops, coach teachers, and support sales efforts while forecasting future service needs and contributing to thought leadership efforts across departments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Education (required).
• Master’s Degree in Education (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality professional learning to teachers and leaders.
• Build deep partnerships with teachers and leaders to ensure effective implementation of Carnegie Learning math products.
• Deliver workshops (initial implementation, academies, virtual) and job-embedded learning.
• Design custom professional learning workshops tailored to partner needs.
• Identify risks to implementation and develop action plans with cross-team collaboration.
• Set partnership goals, collect data, and track progress toward math implementation goals.
• Support sales team with pre/post-sales activities and pilot opportunities.
• Forecast service deliverables for partner accounts weekly.
• Develop correlations, curricula, rubrics to support partner needs.
• Collaborate across departments to influence product development and marketing.

Skills

Professional Learning Delivery

Curriculum Development

Data Tracking and Analysis

Goal Setting

Co-Teaching

Lesson Planning

PLC Facilitation

Implementation Risk Management

Custom Workshop Design

Educational Consulting

Effective Communication

Positive Attitude

Solution-Minded

Detail-Oriented

Task Prioritization

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Education

Master’s Degree in Education

Tools

None

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• Delivering High-Quality Professional Learning
• Building deep customer partnerships with teachers and leaders in your assigned accounts and using those partnerships to ensure successful implementation of Carnegie Learning mathematics products and to foster best practices
• Delivering engaging professional learning workshops; including, but not limited to, initial implementation workshops, mathematics academies, and virtual workshops
• Delivering intentional job-embedded professional learning; including, but not limited to, formal coaching cycles, demonstration lesson cycles, co-teaching, lesson planning, PLC facilitation, etc.
• Designing and delivering custom professional learning workshops according to the needs of individual PL partners
• Demonstrating a proactive approach to identifying risks to implementation success and developing effective action plans for resolution, collaborating with others where appropriate
• Strategically setting goals at the beginning of each PL partnership, collecting data as you support teachers and leaders, and using that data to track on the partnership goals throughout the mathematics implementation
• Supporting the sales team in pre- and post- sales environments including regular communication with your Account Executive, proposal design, pre-sales discussions, occasional formal presentations, and supporting pilot opportunities with professional learning activities
• Actively forecasting current and future service deliverable goals (weekly) for your assigned professional learning partner accounts
• Developing correlations, custom curriculum, rubrics and/or other documents to support specific professional learning partner needs
• Developing and using collaborative relationships within and across departments in order to influence product development, contribute to marketing and thought leadership efforts, etc. as a representation of our teachers and leaders
• Performing other duties as assigned or apparent

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Education (required), specific to the content vertical with which you will support (Masters degree in Education, preferred)
• 5+ years of mathematics classroom teaching experience
• Residing within driving distance of Reading, PA
• Experience teaching with Carnegie Learning resources (preferred)
• Experience mentoring and/or coaching others
• Experience designing and delivering professional learning workshops
• Understanding of school and district infrastructure including technology environments and management
• Experience as a principal, district administrator, educational consultant, Intermediate Unit (IU) leader, or similar K-12 education leader, preferred
• Exceptional time management skills including detailed calendar management, effective goal setting, efficiency in task prioritization, and consistently meets deadlines
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment maintaining a positive attitude in stressful situations
• Ability to remain solution-minded and detail-oriented; always looking for ways to improve efficiency, communication as well as the team and/or customer experience
• Ability to follow through on assigned tasks and projects with minimal supervision
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills

Hard Skills

• Professional Learning Delivery
• Curriculum Development
• Data Tracking and Analysis
• Goal Setting
• Co-Teaching
• Lesson Planning
• PLC Facilitation
• Implementation Risk Management
• Custom Workshop Design
• Educational Consulting

Soft Skills

• Effective Communication
• Positive Attitude
• Solution-Minded
• Detail-Oriented
• Task Prioritization

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Education
• Master's Degree in Education (Preferred)