Literacy Coaching Specialist

Job Title: Literacy Coaching Specialist

Accountable to: Director of Literacy Services

Department: Literacy

FLSA Status: Full-Time Exempt

Salary: $50,000+ commensurate with years of experience and graduate credit hours

Employees under their Direct Supervision: See most current organizational chart for direct and indirect reports under this leader.

Standard Office

Hours:

Ten-month, 195-day, position typically working Monday-Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm and other times as needed to reach agency goals or job duties.

Decision Making Authority: Responsible for the best interests of the South East Education Cooperative (SEEC) given what has been budgeted and carefully utilizes funding to achieve expected goals. Approval required from Director of Literacy Services (or assigned designee) on specific matters as outlined in policies and procedures.

This position is responsible for contributing to the development and execution of the literacy team's professional development and instructional support system for educators across the region and occasionally, in some cases, supporting programs and partner REAs across the state. The Literacy Specialist will join a highly collaborative team of educational coaches and specialists - both internally within the SEEC and externally with partners across the area.

The successful Literacy Specialist is committed to educational equity, uses best-practice research in designing adult learning activities and applies instructional coaching. This person understands evidence-based educational practices, is highly motivated and assures that every child in our schools has access to relevant and rigorous educational opportunities and brings a growth mindset to the work of pedagogical and systems improvement. The candidate is responsible for representing the South East Education Cooperative in a positive way to staff and member schools and supporting the overall goals, objectives, and strategies of the SEEC.

The Literacy Specialist will evaluate programs and use continuous improvement to ensure training opportunities that feed our member schools forward with programming that impacts student outcomes. This candidate will also be involved in supporting implementation and ensuring fidelity to the Reading Corps model and supporting schools in utilizing a data-based decision-making model to ensure students are making progress.

Position Accountabilities, Responsibilities and

Essential Functions:

A critical part of every position is achieving the goals set for the position while delivering high levels of satisfaction to internal and external stakeholders. This is realized by building positive internal individual and team relationships, positive relationships with external partners and exhibiting behaviors that contribute to the success of short and long-term goals of the agency. These behaviors include a focus on timely completion and high quality of work (with or without supervision) while following all legal, compliance, departmental, documentation, safety, timelines, program and other standards per company policies and procedures.

Position requires close collaboration with Director of Literacy Services, stakeholders, other Regional Education Associations, SEEC Employees, in addition to Community and Funding Agencies.

Performance is equally a function of goal attainment; timely and accurate completion of assignments; building positive internal and external relationships; and planning, communicating and coordinating work to avoid last minute confusion and adherence to legal/compliance guidelines and policies/procedures.

• 70% Program Management
  • Plan, develop and/or implement literacy programs, workshops and training for educators and support staff that is structured for learning, reflection and practice of new methods and content.
  • Collaborate with other organization(s) whose purpose and goals align with the program; collaboration and coordination with local, state and regional organizations is essential.
  • Ability to review and translate research in the program areas into effective practices through collaboration, demonstration, coaching and feedback to teachers.
  • Assist and provide input in review(s) and assessment(s) of district curricular needs and expectations involving program area.
  • Provide leadership and support to improve student learning by designing curricular strategies that infuse content area standards with best teaching practices.
  • Provide leadership and consultative services to local districts on designing, planning, implementing and evaluating strategies and projects.
  • Provide continuous monitoring and feedback to individual SEEC member teachers and administrators through direct consultation, meetings, professional learning communities and instructional improvement sessions.
  • Provide direct coaching to tutors, Internal Coaches, and sites in the SEEC to ensure successful implementation of the Reading Corps model and student progress in reading.
  • Communicate and coordinate…