Literacy Implementation Specialist

About the role

The University of Florida Lastinger Center for Learning’s mission is to improve the quality of teaching, learning, and childcare. The Center targets kindergarten readiness, 3rd grade reading proficiency, and algebra proficiency as critical milestones in children's educational trajectory. It operates as a dynamic, entrepreneurial workplace focused on executing UF's service mission to strengthen the human condition and improve the quality of life.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and support team members facilitating face-to-face, virtual, and online professional development learning experiences.
• Model successful face-to-face professional learning experiences as new implementation staff are onboarded.
• Support virtual course offerings.
• Execute Implementation components of Project Charters with the implementation project budget available: Travel, Materials, Personnel, other items necessary.
• Instruct courses within a virtual professional learning management system.
• Create intensive, multi-day literacy-related professional learning experiences for school administrators, coaches, and teachers.
• Create agendas that support the goals and objectives of the Literacy Initiatives within the Lastinger Center.
• Affiliate in the creation of institute materials.
• Identify and manage systems for resource development and personnel as the literacy work expands.
• Provide onsite literacy coaching and school-level support for instructional leaders and teachers.
• Affiliate in the development of a framework that combines content-related expertise (i.e., reading instruction) and coaching practices.
• Collaborate in partnership with product managers, design managers, communications, technology, and other teams across the center to ensure research-based products are created and delivered to support adult learning principles.
• Serve as a liaison between practitioners and support positions including instructors, facilitators, and technology team members.
• Collaborate with all Lastinger Center teams to design and promote high-quality instructional practices and project implementation success.
• Support the direct supervisor to stay abreast of changes and share information from the field to guide ongoing refinement of products and services.
• Work closely with Research and Evaluation and Product Development to share feedback from educators to inform research and design.
• Keep accurate records which may include (but is not limited to) rosters; roster changes; starting and ending dates for training, attendance at meetings and trainings; receipts and invoice records.
• Participate in meetings referencing deliverables (dates, people, materials, other supports).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Preferred Master’s Degree in Reading, Special Education, or related field.
• Experience in early learning language, and literacy or K-12 literacy teaching/professional development.
• Experience in online learning environments.
• Expertise in literacy instruction as an educator, coach, or facilitator.
• Able to organize and track documents.
• Able to collaborate with colleagues.
• Able to prioritize when faced with competing obligations.
• Strong content knowledge in Science of Reading and/or the Science of Early Childhood instruction.
• Knowledge of adult learning principles.
• Skills and experience in coaching and/or mentoring.
• Experience using Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, Excel and/or SmartSheet.