Lead Core Literacy Consultant

About the role

Core Literacy Leads are experienced literacy educators and pilot specialists who lead a team of Core Literacy Specialists and deliver hands-on pilot support themselves. In this player-coach role, they coach, develop, and manage the performance of Core Literacy Specialists while carrying an active, focused caseload of their own pilots.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Core Literacy team, coaching, managing, and developing a team of Core Literacy Specialists, providing regular, actionable feedback that strengthens their facilitation, consultation, and classroom-modeling skills.
• Conduct co-observations and calibration sessions to ensure consistent, high-quality pilot professional learning and consultative support across the team.
• Partner with the Senior Manager, Curriculum & Instruction on staffing, workload balancing, and hiring decisions, and serve as the first point of escalation when a Core Literacy Specialist needs support with a complex district relationship or instructional challenge.
• Aggregate insights across the entire Core Literacy team — not just personal pilots — and communicate meaningful patterns, successes, and emerging challenges to Curriculum & Instruction leadership.
• Support districts moving from pilot to adoption during the installation period, helping create continuity between the pilot experience and full implementation.
• Provide consultative support throughout the pilot, building trusted relationships with teachers, coaches, school leaders, and district leaders, and serving as a consistent instructional partner throughout the pilot experience.
• Support the handoff from the pilot team to the teams responsible for ongoing implementation, ensuring important context, district needs, and pilot insights are carried forward.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in education with a strong focus on literacy instruction.
• Demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, or managing other adult professionals, ideally in a remote or field-based setting.
• Prior people-management experience preferred.
• Demonstrated successful classroom teaching experience in literacy; experience teaching with a comprehensive core literacy program strongly preferred.
• Experience providing professional learning, coaching, or instructional support to teachers and/or school leaders.
• Experience supporting curriculum implementation and/or participating in a curriculum pilot or adoption preferred.
• Demonstrated effectiveness working cross-functionally, building relationships with remote teams, and working with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in education, literacy, English language arts, or related field required; advanced degree in literacy, curriculum and instruction, or related field preferred.