[Hiring] Senior Early Literacy Coach @OnYourMark Education

Role Description

OnYourMark is hiring a Senior Early Literacy Coach to support our growing tutor support structure and provide expanded leadership within our Program Coaching Team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment that is ever changing and is ready to take on additional leadership within our mission-driven team.

• Manage a roster of tutors for coaching.
• Work closely with the Director of Tutor Development to strengthen internal systems and operational support for the coaching team.
• Combine core Early Literacy Coach responsibilities with additional actions such as:
  • Supporting Early Literacy Coaches.
  • Planning Peer Group coaching content.
  • Providing internal system support.
  • Creating score norms for coaches.
  • Undertaking special projects.
• Help ensure OnYourMark develops exceptional literacy tutors by supporting the Coaching team’s internal effectiveness and collaboration for various needs.

Qualifications

• Six + years of teaching, tutoring, and/or coaching experience focused in reading and/or ELA.
• Two + years as a coach at OnYourMark.
• A strong sense of possibility and a growth mindset.
• Love for the building process.
• Steadfast belief in the science of reading and the urgency of foundational skills instruction for new readers.
• Deep belief in the importance of early literacy.
• Center diversity, belonging, and inclusion of experience, thought, and action in all areas of work.
• Prior experience managing and onboarding new team members.
• Proven ability to own a new project from planning through execution with revisions.
• Strong technical knowledge and confidence in troubleshooting in various tutor, curriculum and school updates.
• Experience navigating difficult conversations and providing effective feedback.
• Analyzing data to determine trends of support.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to guide others through change.

Requirements

• Serve as the go-to support for the Coaching Team in navigating coaching tools, scheduling systems, coaching cadence trackers, and tutor coverage planning.
• Support onboarding of new coaches, and offer just-in-time coaching support when new tools or protocols are launched.
• Monitor our internal coaching documentation and systems in collaboration with the Director of Tutor Development.
• Drive consistent, high-quality tutor coaching practices by supporting coaching team implementation of feedback cycles, rubric scoring, and data-informed planning.
• Co-facilitate weekly coach meetings and contribute to the design of the meeting for improvements.
• Co-lead and design rubric norming sessions and rubric alignment walkthroughs to ensure all coaches are delivering clear, aligned support to tutors.
• Act as a thought partner to the Director of Tutor Development on coach performance trends, coaching strategy, and tutor tiering decisions.
• Identify gaps in tutor or coach support systems and propose process or tool improvements that elevate consistency and impact.
• Contribute to coach and tutor planning by helping evaluate trends in team needs.
• Collaborate with Director of Tutor Development on projects that strengthen coaching fidelity, streamline coach communication, and drive operational improvements across tutor development.
• Participate in strategic planning conversations around team capacity, tiered coaching, and cross-functional integration between coaching and training.
• Assist with other Program tasks as well as additional administrative tasks that will vary in nature as needed.
• Coach a smaller roster of tutors each term to stay grounded in direct coaching practice.
• Schedule and facilitate feedback conversations, rubric-aligned feedback, and skill-based practice of each of your assigned tutor tiers.
• Use session recordings and fidelity data to inform coaching goals and support tutor advancement.
• Support onboarding or facilitation/scheduling for New Tutor and Returning Tutor trainings, and collaborate with the Director of Tutor Development & Training & Development Coordinator as needed.
• Respond to tutor or coach needs and support tickets related to coaching tools, tech, or scheduling.

Benefits

• Join a national team dedicated to building OnYourMark in service of our tutors and young readers across the country.
• All OnYourMark teammates are fully remote and enjoy the flexibilities that come with that.
• Supportive environment that centers each teammate as a whole person with real life needs and responsibilities.
• Opportunity to step outside the lanes of job descriptions to lend a hand to various tasks across the organization.
• Problem-solvers and self-starters thrive at OnYourMark.
• Fully virtual work environment with offices based out of a home office, anywhere in the U.S.
• Competitive benefits package.
• Expected compensation at or around $70,000 - $85,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Company Description

Cambiar Education and OnYourMark Education are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, making all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other characteristic or classification protected by law.