Associate Partner, Customized Coaching & Training (NYC Reads MTSS)

Location: NYC Area | Type: Full-Time | Team: Professional Education, Customized Coaching & Training | Start Date: Immediate

About the role

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.

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.

This role will support campus and district leaders within a large NYCPS school district in implementing high-quality MTSS structures and frameworks across all Tiers of instruction, including but not limited to: Special Education settings, Tier 2 and 3 groups, data-driven differentiation within tier 1 classrooms, aligned to the Wit & Wisdom Curriculum. The Associate Partner may also 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. It is an outstanding opportunity to work in a growing educational leadership training program that is shifting the landscape in public education.

Responsibilities

• Virtual & On-Site Coaching (approximately 50%)
  • Provide exemplary coaching and successful partner support implementation by directly supporting a portfolio of partners in New York City.
  • Use baseline assessments annually to collaborate with local partners to set goals for coaching engagements.
  • 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, principal supervisors, 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.
• Design & Facilitation of Professional Learning (approximately 30%)
  • Facilitate Relay leadership professional learning sessions during summer intensives, intersessions, and regional trainings.
  • Design, incorporate feedback, and facilitate professional learning sessions to support individual partners with implementing Relay's core instructional leadership frameworks and practices.
• Individual & Team Development (approximately 20%)
  • Collaborate with Professional Education colleagues on a weekly 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 weekly basis to develop skills, systems, and strategies to support instructional leaders effectively.
  • Complete other duties as assigned in support of team goals.

Requirements

First and foremost, the Associate Partner must share the Relay community's commitment to working together to improve student growth and achievement through phenomenal teacher preparation and professional development grounded in diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism. This includes:

• Providing teacher preparation programs that set novice teachers up to succeed in the classroom from day one.
• Leadership programs that train new and veteran school and district leaders to best serve their school communities.
• Teacher-facing professional education that provides ongoing learning to educators.

Qualifications

• Master's or other graduate degree required.
• Minimum of three years as a Principal, Director of Special Education, or Director of MTSS (or equivalent) in a high-needs community, with proven K-12 student achievement and experience in leader and teacher coaching, observation and feedback, data analysis, school culture leadership, and professional development.
• Strong organizational skills and proficiency in managing processes and systems that support the team's work.
• Committed to fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
• Ability to work collaboratively and adaptively in a dynamic environment.
• Effective written and verbal interpersonal communication skills.
• A demonstrated passion for education and closing the opportunity gaps for historically under-resourced communities.
• Ability to travel at least 20%.
• Authorized to work in the United States.
• Live within 1 hour of NYC by subway or car.
• PETS clearance or ability to pass the NYCPS PETS Background check clearance process.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing school leaders and/or network academic and instructional programs as a principal supervisor or chief academic officer.
• Experience with the Wit & Wisdom curriculum.
• Experience with NYCPS-Approved Tier 2 and 3 reading curriculum.
• Experience creating or working within HQIM-aligned MTSS systems.
• Ability to travel at least 40% time.
• Experience with Relay leadership programs content, either as a NPAF/NPSA alumnus/alumna or as a leader in a school using Relay leadership program practices.

Benefits

Relay offers a comprehensive total rewards package. For full-time roles, this includes:

• Health insurance benefits.
• Disability and life insurance.
• Retirement plan.
• Professional development.
• Gym reimbursement.
• Adoption assistance.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Parental leave.

To learn more about Relay's benefits, please visit here.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $123,800 - $148,560. New hires will be offered a salary at the starting point of the range, $123,800, to allow for an equitable starting salary process and continual salary growth during an employee's time at Relay GSE.

Work Location Policy

Employees must have a primary work location within the U.S., where they are legally authorized to work. Relay is a registered employer in the following states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington State, and Washington DC.

Employees who choose to perform work from states not listed here will be subject to NYC state withholdings.