Senior Coordinator, Education

Sesame Workshop; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Sesame Workshop in New York, NY seeks a Senior Coordinator, Education to oversee high‑quality educational content from concept through publication. You’ll collaborate with Education, Marketing, Production, and Research teams to ensure accuracy, cultural relevance, and alignment with learning goals.

Responsibilities include editing, coordinating content creation, maintaining publishing workflows, and supporting digital distribution across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Communications, English, Instructional Design, or related field.
• 1–2+ years of experience in educational content development or editorial operations.
• Strong writing and editing skills with digital publishing experience.
• Ability to line edit, copyedit, and proofread with attention to style guides and CMS/digital publishing tools.
• Excellent organization and project management skills with cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience in collaborative teams in educational media, nonprofit, or social impact settings.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate educational content development from concept to publication, ensuring on-time delivery.
• Create educational content such as facilitator guides, family handouts, and digital articles with cross‑functional teams.
• Line edit, copyedit, and proofread materials for consistency, tone, and learning goals.
• Oversee digital publishing across platforms, ensuring proper formatting and tagging.
• Support cross‑department initiatives and content integration into digital experiences.
• Conduct fact‑checking and participate in content quality assurance and archiving.
• Maintain editorial guidelines and update workflow documentation; prepare meeting notes and project updates.

Skills

Strong writing and editing

Editorial operations

Content management systems

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education or related field

1–2 years of relevant experience in educational content development

Tools

Content management platforms

Digital publishing platforms

AI-assisted writing tools

Design/prototyping tools

Job description

About Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop is the global nonprofit behind Sesame Street with a mission to help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. We support children and the caring adults in their lives in the moments that shape early childhood, reaching families with playful learning in over 190 countries. Through beloved characters and joyful educational media, Sesame helps children understand themselves, connect with others, and make sense of an ever-changing world.

Job Summary

The Senior Coordinator, Education plays a key role in ensuring the development of high-quality, impactful educational content that aligns with Sesame Workshop's mission. This position supports the creation process, review, coordination, and publishing of educational materials that drive clear, consistent, and meaningful learning experiences for children and families. The Senior Coordinator collaborates with internal teams, advisors, and consultants to ensure content accuracy, cultural relevance, and educational effectiveness.

This role sits within the Global Education Department, which creates, curates, and evolves educational messages and content that meet the learning needs of Sesame Workshop's audiences. Alongside its core writing and editorial responsibilities, the role helps maintain the editorial parameters, templates, and review practices that guide how departmental content is developed and published, and supports a recurring review of existing content assets so the team can make informed decisions about relevance, reach, and usability. The Senior Coordinator supports content across the department's programmatic portfolio — including emergency preparedness, the autism initiative, co‑design work, family engagement resources, and child‑facing digital experiences — and works fluently across the range of digital tools and platforms these efforts rely on.

Responsibilities & Delivery

The Senior Coordinator ensures educational content moves from concept to publication with consistency, accuracy, and care with an eye toward how that content is structured, maintained, and evaluated over time so the team can make well‑informed decisions about what to build, revise, or retire. This role is the connective tissue between educational writing, editorial quality, and publishing execution.

Delivery

• Support project coordination for educational content development, ensuring materials move smoothly through all stages — from concept to final product — on time and within scope.
• Assist with creating educational content (such as facilitator guides, family handouts, digital articles, and other materials) in collaboration with content developer and cross‑functional teams.
• Line edit, copyedit, and proofread educational materials to ensure consistency, clarity, style, tone, accuracy, and alignment with learning goals and brand standards.
• Maintain and expand digital publishing of educational content across the department's digital platforms, ensuring materials are formatted, tagged, and structured appropriately for the channels and audiences they serve.
• Support cross‑departmental efforts (e.g., marketing, creative, research, impact programs teams) in implementing content into digital experiences and site updates, contributing to the programming, design input, and usability of content platforms and child‑facing digital experiences.
• Conduct fact‑checking to enhance content accuracy and relevance.
• Support content quality assurance, including layout reviews and final checks before delivery or publication. Help manage tracking and archiving of educational messages and goals for existing and new resources, and support a recurring review of existing content assets — gathering input and summarizing findings on relevance, reach, and usability for content owners.

• Help maintain editorial guidelines, templates, and workflow documentation for the team, contributing to the continuous improvement of content development and digital publishing processes.
• Prepare and distribute meeting notes, editorial tracking documents, and project updates to internal teams and external partners.

Engagement

• Partner with cross‑functional teams (Education, Impact Programs, Marketing, Production, Research and Insights) to coordinate content workflows and ensure alignment across departments.
• Facilitate review cycles by engaging internal stakeholders and external reviewers and managing feedback and revisions efficiently.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across departments to ensure smooth communication throughout the content development and publishing process.
• Serve as a liaison between the Education team and other departments, delivering clear updates, documentation, and editorial tracking.
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment that fosters high‑quality, mission‑aligned educational content.

This role may perform other related duties as needed to support team and organizational priorities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Communications, English, Instructional Design, or a related field; or
• 1 - 2+ years of relevant experience in educational content development, editorial operations, content strategy, or a related area.
• Strong writing and editing skills, with a demonstrated ability to craft clear, engaging, developmentally appropriate content including experience with digital publishing (e.g., content management systems, formatting content for web and digital distribution)
• Proven ability to line edit, copyedit, and proofread educational materials with attention to detail and adherence to style guides including using content management and digital publishing platforms; design and prototyping tools; and artificial‑intelligence‑assisted writing, research, and search tools, including an understanding of how generative engines surface and summarize content
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work independently using collaborative documents, spreadsheet, and project‑tracking tools; basic analytics and reporting dashboards;
• Experience working in collaborative, cross‑functional teams, ideally in educational media, curriculum development, nonprofit, or social impact settings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with child development, family engagement, or educational best practices.
• Exposure to methods for reviewing or auditing content (e.g., content audits, analytics review, usability feedback).
• Exposure to user‑centered design principles or to design tools used in educational technology (e.g., prototyping tools, learning management systems).
• Published consumer facing work for children, parents, or providers.
• Ability to learn quickly and apply new content areas, research, or tools to your work.

Sesame Workshop Hybrid Work Policy

This position is based at our headquarters office in New York (Manhattan) at 1900 Broadway, New York, NY, and follows a hybrid work model. In‑office requirements vary by role and employee group, and currently range from two to five designated in‑office days per week.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement

As a federal contractor, Sesame Workshop follows Pay Transparency and non‑discrimination provisions as guided by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Equal Opportunity Employment (EOE) Statement

Sesame Workshop is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy‑related condition, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

PSEA Statement

Sesame Workshop is an equal‑opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on the business needs, job requirements & suitability of the candidate. Sesame Workshop strictly follows the Child Safeguarding Policy, and the Anti‑Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of program participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Sesame Workshop staff, consultants, visitors to the program and partner organization, and the standards of behavior expected from them.