[Hiring] Professional Learning Specialist, Literacy/ELA @Carnegie Learning

Role Description

Our Professional Learning team is looking for highly motivated current or former teachers, instructional coaches or leaders to join our team in a part-time capacity to help support professional learning initiatives.

As the PL Specialist you will facilitate professional learning for K-12 educators utilizing Carnegie Learning resources on an as-needed basis. A Carnegie PL Specialist is a Carnegie Learning product ambassador, promotes implementation fidelity, and increases teacher effectiveness in each of the schools/districts they support.

As a member of the Professional Learning team, the PL Specialist works collaboratively with many of our teams, including the internal Professional Learning Team, Regional Directors of Professional Learning, Managers of School Partnerships, and Implementation Managers to support professional learning objectives. PL Specialists may also support additional teams including PL Design, Product, Sales and Tutoring Services on content, design and PL support.

PL Specialists must successfully complete a suite of certification requirements, as prescribed by Carnegie Learning experts including shadowing and co-facilitating professional learning activities with our experts. This position is part-time and is recruiting throughout the calendar year; applicants will be contacted when the customer demand arises.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engaging professional learning workshops; including, but not limited to, initial implementation workshops, virtual workshops, and state/regional/national conference presentations.
• Deliver intentional job-embedded professional learning; including, but not limited to, formal coaching cycles, demonstration lesson cycles, co-teaching, lesson planning, PLC facilitation, etc.
• Design and deliver custom professional learning workshops according to the needs of individual PL partners as demand dictates.
• Develop correlations, custom curriculum, rubrics and/or other documents to support specific PL partner needs.
• Support the sales team in pre- and post- sales environments including RFP/proposal design, pre-sales discussions, formal presentations, and supporting pilot opportunities.
• Provide Tutoring Services to CL customers as desired/available.
• PL Specialists will have varied work opportunities based on skills and experience. These opportunities are evolving continuously as the business grows.
• Performing other duties as assigned or apparent.

Daily Activities

• Key Work Area : PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FACILITATION - 80%
• Key Work Area : CONTENT SUPPORT - 15%
• Key Work Area : OTHER - 5%

NOTE: This job requires travel when supporting Professional Learning Opportunities onsite. PL Specialists have the opportunity to accept or decline opportunities based on their individual schedules and plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Education
• 3+ years teaching experience in relevant field
• Currently residing within one of these states within the territory: Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming
• Previous knowledge of Carnegie Learning resources is preferred
• Flexible schedule and availability during the summer and/or school year
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or managing teachers and/or delivering professional learning (preferred)
• Understanding of school and district infrastructure including technology environments and management
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment maintaining positive attitude in stressful situations
• Solution-minded and detail-oriented; always looking for ways to improve efficiency, communication and the customer experience
• Ability to follow through on assigned tasks and projects with minimal supervision
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills

Benefits

• An inclusive range of Health Insurance options
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance at no cost to you
• Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy
• Your Time, Your Way - paid time off that you can use as you see fit to recharge and nurture your personal life
• Paid Parental Leave
• Reduced working hours on full pay for soon-to-be and new parents
• Free access to CL products for employees and their children
• Quarterly Wellness Incentives
• Monthly employee activities + recognition program
• Employee Allyship Groups (EAGs)