Associate Partner, Customized Coaching & Training

Location: Texas and surrounding areas
Type: Full-Time
Team: Professional Education, Customized Coaching & Training
Start Date: As soon as possible

Relay Graduate School of Education (Relay) is an accredited not-for-profit institution of higher education serving thousands of educators from across the country, from pre-service teachers to system-level leaders. Our mission is to ensure that all students are taught by excellent educators in order to build a more just world where every student has a clear path to a fulfilling life.

At Relay, we know that great schools require great leaders. As part of the Professional Education vertical at Relay, the Customized Coaching & Training team is deeply committed to developing school leaders with the skills and mindsets to lead their students to academic and character success. The Associate Partner is a unique and challenging opportunity to influence and lead in this work by providing critical coaching and on-the-ground support to sitting principals, principal supervisors, and chief academic officers in Relay Leadership Programs and Relay partner networks and districts.

Reporting to and in partnership with the Managing Partner or one of the Partners on the Customized Coaching & Training team, this role involves collaborating with colleagues on instructional preparation, serving as the main contact for network and district leaders through professional learning communities, coaching, and site visits, and delivering feedback to enhance leaders' outcomes-driven practices. Additionally, the Associate Partner will help shape content and lead sessions for professional learning events like the National Principal Academy Fellowship.

This position offers the chance to join a dynamic Professional Education and Leadership Programs team, working alongside experts in school leader development.

This role will primarily serve the requirements of the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) LIFT grant, which focuses on planning and implementation of the Texas Bluebonnet curriculum for RLA and Math. This partner role will serve as a campus coach, responsible for supporting the implementation of large-scale HQIM implementation efforts and directly coaching principals and campus-based leaders, depending on the size and scale of the project.

This role may also require direct to teacher support in facilitating PLCs, data meetings, coaching, and/or modeling in classrooms. This role may also flex into other regional projects, as needed.

The essential responsibilities of this position, while not limited to the following, will include:

• Provide exemplary coaching and successful partner support implementation by directly supporting a portfolio of partners annually across the US
• Use the baseline assessment annually to collaborate with local partners and district coach to set goals for coaching engagements aligned to the larger district implementation plan.
• Establish systems for quarterly progress monitoring and communication in alignment with the coaching engagement's set goals; cooperate with local stakeholders to remove roadblocks to coaching implementation
• Provide individualized weekly or monthly coaching to principals and/or senior level instructional staff
• Facilitate regular data and video review/practice lab protocols as needed to achieve each engagement's coaching goals
• Facilitate problem solving and action planning consultancies as needed to support content implementation
• Conduct network or district site visits as outlined in partner contracts to observe and gather data and lead site-based action planning to accomplish engagement goals
• Synthesize performance data, track cohort progress and identify gaps in network, district, and participant understanding, implementation, and outcomes

Note: Partner portfolio will be determined annually based on overall team needs and may include onboarding and initiating new partnerships in the Spring and Summer

• Teach and facilitate Relay leadership professional learning sessions as needed.
• Design, incorporate feedback, and facilitate professional learning sessions to support individual partners with implementing Relay's core instructional leadership frameworks and practice.

• Collaborate with Professional Education colleagues on a regular basis to collect best practices, artifacts, and videos from current and past program participants to support strong, equity-centered content design across the Leadership Programs team.
• Collaborate with manager and Customized Coaching & Training colleagues on a regular basis to develop skills, systems, and strategies to support instructional leaders effectively.
• Complete other duties as assigned in support of team and project goals.

• A Master's degree or PhD
• Minimum of three years as a principal or equivalent in a high-needs community with demonstrated…