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About the Role

The Senior Program Manager implements high-quality programmatic services and manages complex projects to impact educator practice, leader practice, and student learning. This mid-level role involves designing and facilitating professional learning, providing instructional coaching, serving as a content expert, managing project plans, and collaborating across departments. Success requires strong collaboration, organizational skills, adaptability, content expertise, and a commitment to advancing excellent teaching, leading, and learning.

Responsibilities

Implement high-quality programmatic services
Manage complex projects driving impact on educator practice, leader practice, and student learning
Design and facilitate professional learning content, services, and resources
Provide direct-to-leader instructional coaching for improved implementation and student outcomes
Serve as a content expert
Take on project leadership roles when needed
Manage project plans, contracts, and invoices for accurate, timely service delivery
Collaborate across departments
Support team members through coaching or people management

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
Five or more years of combined experience in PK-12 education
Minimum two years of experience teaching PK-12 students from traditionally underserved backgrounds with demonstrated impact
Three or more years of combined experience working with external partners to manage workflow or deliver services
Three or more years of combined experience planning and implementing projects
Two or more years of combined experience leading or coaching school leaders to implement HQIM (in any subject area)
Deep knowledge and experience with College- and Career-Ready ELA content and practice standards
Experience designing impactful professional learning for school leaders
Experience facilitating impactful professional learning or coaching for school leaders
Experience managing relationships with clients and stakeholders in an education context
Experience teaching or coaching at least one of the specified ELA curricula (EL Education, Fundations, Guidebooks, Heggerty, HMH Into Reading, HMH Into Literature, Orton Gillingham, UFLI, Wit and Wisdom, S.P.I.R.E, Phonics For Reading, REWARDS, STARI, Wilson Reading System, Just Words, Aprendo Leyendo)
Advanced degree (Preferred)
Two or more years experience as a school or district leader (Preferred)
Experience providing professional learning support and services in and for consultative organizations (Preferred)

Skills

Leadership Coaching (coaching school or district leaders to maximize time, talent, and curricular resources for high-quality 6-8 ELA instruction)
Client Management (managing partner scope of work, coordinating service delivery, skilled communication, strong organizational skills, time management, workflow management)
Commitment to growth mindset for adults and students
Ability to continuously strengthen instructional practices and team capabilities
Ability to design and deliver high-quality, evidence-based professional learning
Compelling communication and facilitation skills
Strong organizational skills
Ability to manage complex projects, multiple priorities, and tight timelines in a fast-paced environment
Collaboration
Adaptability
Content expertise
Commitment to advancing excellent teaching, leading, and learning

Location

New York, NY
On-site with some remote work

Work Type

Full-Time
Salaried
Hybrid

Experience Level

Mid-level position
Five or more years of combined experience in PK-12 education
Minimum two years of experience teaching PK-12 students
Three or more years of combined experience working with external partners
Three or more years of combined experience planning and implementing projects
Two or more years of combined experience leading or coaching school leaders
Some management responsibilities
Two or more years experience as a school or district leader (Preferred)

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Advanced degree (Preferred)

Salary/Compensations

Full salary range: $90,500 - $136,889 annually
Anticipated hiring range: $90,500 - $119,381

Benefits

Organizational contributions toward medical, dental, and vision coverage
401(k) with employer match
Support for technology and home office expenses
Generous paid time off
Funding for professional development or well-being
Dedicated holidays

About the Company

Teaching Lab is a nonprofit organization focused on fundamentally shifting the paradigm of teacher professional learning.
Envisions a world where teachers and students thrive together in communities that enable life-long learning and meaningful lives.
Transforms professional learning in partnership with teachers to dramatically improve student outcomes.
Works with school, district, and state leaders to create instructional systems necessary to support these changes.
Ultimate goals include educators and students learning more, advancing educational equity, and ensuring educators love their approach.
Values include Collaboration & Responsive Service, Resilient Solution-Finding, Research & Learning With Humility, Accountable Excellence, and Equity & Justice.
The Program department designs, delivers, and continuously improves teacher professional learning programs to strengthen instructional practice and drive student achievement.
The Program department manages and implements scopes of work with partners, provides coaching and professional learning for teachers and leaders, and creates research-based content.
The Program department ensures every partnership drives measurable impact on teacher practice and student learning, advancing educational equity at scale.