School Strategy Specialist - New York
About the role
Epic is a digital reading platform for kids 12 and under, with a library of high-quality children’s books, audiobooks, and read-to-me titles. Epic is free for educators, and teachers and librarians across the U.S. use it every day to get kids reading more, with more joy. Many of our biggest champions are school librarians and ELA teachers who brought Epic into their buildings on their own.
As a Strategic Partnerships Specialist, you’ll be Epic’s local, in-person presence in your community, based in New York City. Your mission: help more educators discover Epic, bring it into their classrooms and libraries, and make reading with Epic part of their everyday routine. You’ll work with schools and districts in your area, building relationships with teachers, librarians, and school communities. You’ll help educators who already love Epic share it with their colleagues, support teachers as they get started, and introduce Epic to schools that haven’t discovered it yet. This is a grassroots, educator-to-educator role. Epic is free for educators, so this isn’t about selling. It’s about being a trusted local voice who shows teachers how Epic fits into their day. Along the way, you’ll share what you learn in the field and help shape the school partnership playbook that guides this work as it expands to new markets.
Responsibilities
- Own your portfolio. Work a list of 10 to 15 priority districts and their elementary and K-8 schools, prioritized by tier: schools with only a few active teachers, schools with recent sign-ups who never activated, and schools new to Epic.
- Ignite school wide adoption. Partner with school librarians, existing Epic champions, or library media specialists, to turn one user into a whole school, and re-engage stalled teachers, with a class, students and daily routines like independent reading and read alouds.
- Showcase Epic where educators gather. Lead short demos at back-to-school night and PD at staff meetings, literacy