Senior Director, AI-Enabled Education Coaching

DREAM; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible medical plans

Parental leave (12 weeks)

403(b) with employer matching

Professional development fund

Employee assistance program

Job summary

DREAM is seeking a Senior Director of Program Coaching to lead coaching across its innovation programs in New York City. You will translate ambitious goals into coaching approaches and build a scalable model with two initial coaches, expanding as partnerships grow.

You will recruit, train, and supervise coaches, ensuring strong practice across school systems, partners, and leaders while driving continuous improvement through data.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time teaching experience with a record of strong student achievement and exemplary classroom culture.
• 4+ years of experience in a school leadership, network leadership, or education coaching organization with responsibilities for coaching other leaders and managing full-time teams.
• Proven ability to develop others’ coaching practice through training, observation, and actionable feedback.
• Excellent instructional eye and ability to identify root causes and precise action steps in coaching.
• Experience translating instructional or leadership approaches into clear processes, tools, and resources that others can use.
• Strong relationship-building, communication and influence skills to build trust across organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and codify coaching approaches for each Innovation program, defining goals and coaching structure.
• Ensure coaching enables leaders, staff, and teachers to utilize DREAM’s AI tools in instruction and data cycles.
• Create coaching playbooks and processes translating program design into implementation support.
• Establish approaches for coaching educators to use AI in assessment cycles and streamline workflows.
• Design and iterate coaching practices across different school systems and contexts.
• Directly manage and develop a team of coaches with ongoing feedback and growth.
• Train coaches through observation and feedback to ensure high standards.
• Coach coaches to strengthen work with leaders and staff, adapt to needs.
• Gather data to refine systems as programs expand.

Skills

Leadership experience

Coaching leadership

Data-driven decision making

Relationship-building

Communication

Adult learning strategies

Program development

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s Degree in Education or School Administration

Job description

DREAM is seeking a Senior Director of Program Coaching to lead coaching across its innovation programs in New York City. You will translate ambitious goals into coaching approaches and build a scalable model with two initial coaches, expanding as partnerships grow.

You will recruit, train, and supervise coaches, ensuring strong practice across school systems, partners, and leaders while driving continuous improvement through data.