Lead Core Literacy Consultant

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential K–8 education organization in their search for a Lead Core Literacy Consultant. This is a player-coach role where you'll both lead a team of literacy specialists and maintain your own active caseload of curriculum pilots. You'll ensure consistent, high-quality professional learning delivery across your team while staying grounded in current classroom practice.

This is a remote position based in the United States requiring up to 65% travel, including overnight stays for pilot delivery, team coaching visits, and internal collaboration.

Responsibilities

As Lead Core Literacy Consultant, you will:

• Coach, manage, and develop a team of Core Literacy Specialists, providing regular feedback to strengthen their facilitation, consultation, and classroom-modeling skills
• Conduct co-observations and calibration sessions to ensure consistent pilot professional learning delivery across the team
• Partner with senior leadership on staffing, workload balancing, capacity planning, interviewing, and hiring decisions
• Onboard and train new team members, building their program knowledge and facilitation confidence
• Serve as first point of escalation for specialists navigating complex district relationships or instructional challenges
• Carry an active, focused caseload of your own pilots, delivering high-quality professional learning that models expectations for your team
• Facilitate pilot orientations and professional learning experiences that build educators' understanding of program design, instructional routines, and implementation expectations
• Build trusted relationships with teachers, coaches, school leaders, and district leaders as a consistent instructional partner
• Provide targeted consultation on lesson planning, pacing, instructional routines, and program resource utilization
• Demonstrate lessons and instructional routines when appropriate, followed by reflection connecting decisions to program design and student learning
• Conduct classroom walkthroughs and engage educators in conversations about pilot implementation across classrooms
• Aggregate insights from across your entire team and communicate meaningful patterns, successes, and challenges to leadership
• Support districts transitioning from pilot to adoption, creating continuity between pilot experience and full implementation
• Partner with district leaders to identify key pilot learnings that inform implementation planning and professional learning

What We're Looking For

Required Experience:

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

Required Skills:

• Deep knowledge of evidence-based literacy instruction and current best practices in reading and writing
• Strong knowledge of elementary literacy instruction and the demands of implementing comprehensive core literacy programs
• Exceptional facilitation skills and ability to engage adult learners in meaningful professional learning
• Strong classroom presence and ability to confidently model lessons with students
• Ability to provide direct, actionable, growth-oriented coaching and feedback
• Experience balancing individual client delivery with team leadership and management responsibilities
• Comfort making staffing, workload, and capacity-planning decisions across multiple pilots and territories
• Ability to observe instruction, recognize meaningful patterns, and clearly communicate insights
• Strong organizational skills managing teams, multiple pilots, stakeholder relationships, schedules, and competing priorities
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfort using digital tools and data to support professional learning and team performance

How We Work with You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not contact the client organization directly—all communication should flow through our recruiting team to ensure the best candidate experience.

Pay

Pay via Get A Job.ai has not been specified for this role. The original employer's range is $69,250 - $118,250, though Get A Job.ai's compensation structure may differ. We will discuss compensation details during the screening process.

Benefit-eligible employees receive medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage for themselves and their families. Additional benefits include 401k with employer match, flexible vacation and sick policy, twelve paid holidays, winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's, and additional perks.

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