Design and Coaching Specialist, ELA

About the role

The Design and Coaching Specialist - ELA plays a dual-focused role, combining school-based coaching with instructional design to ensure LE's programming translates directly into stronger teacher practice and student outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the main point of contact for school leaders, coaches, teacher leaders, and instructional leadership teams.
• Provide direct coaching to teachers and leaders while designing professional learning tools and resources tailored to each school's unique context and needs.
• Integrate design and coaching to create coherent cycles of learning that deepen teacher knowledge and shift literacy practice.
• Analyze ongoing evidence of student learning, teacher practice, and PLC leader development to monitor and refine program impact.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in education, including experience teaching, leading instructional practice, or supporting curriculum implementation.
• K-8 literacy content expertise required (comfort with elementary and middle school standards and research-based best practices).
• Demonstrated experience providing coaching to teachers, teacher leaders, or school leaders.
• Experience designing and facilitating professional learning aligned to curriculum, standards, and observable instructional practice.
• Experience analyzing student work, classroom observation data, and instructional artifacts to inform coaching and professional learning decisions.

Qualifications

• Expertise in providing high-impact coaching to teachers, teacher leaders, and school leaders focused on lesson internalization, student work analysis, goal-setting, and reflective improvement cycles.
• Experience in designing and facilitating professional learning aligned to curriculum, standards, and observable instructional practice.
• Ability to analyze student work, classroom observation data, and instructional artifacts to inform coaching and professional learning decisions.
• Ability to build trusting relationships with school leaders and instructional teams while maintaining instructional credibility and reliability.

Skills

• Practitioner-level AI fluency: ability to identify appropriate use cases, apply AI to improve efficiency and quality, exercise judgment about responsible use, and integrate AI into existing workflows.
• Ability to manage school-based relationships with professionalism, reliability, and instructional credibility.

Benefits

• Compensation: Base salary range is $100,320 to $127,680 per year, with a standard starting salary of $114,000.
• Benefits: 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for individual employees, 4% matching 401k plan, Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, childcare and commuter expenses, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Time Off: Full-time staff accrue 22 days a year, with five additional days accrued after the third and sixth year of employment, plus 16 additional paid days off for various holidays.

Pay

$100,320 to $127,680 annually

Schedule

Based in New York City, with local travel to schools and district meetings, as well as occasional national travel for organizational retreats, program related work, job related responsibilities, and professional development.