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Manager, Professional Learning Delivery
Amplify
Brooklyn, NY, United States
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Amplify builds innovative and compelling digital educational products that empower teachers and students across the country. We have a long history as the leading innovator in K-12 education - and have been described as the best tech company in education and the best education company in tech. While others try to shrink the learning experience into the technology, we use technology to expand what is possible in real classrooms with real students and teachers.
Amplify works with educators across the country - and about 2 million students. Although we’re a technology company, we don’t believe that our work is over the moment a teacher has a new software license. Instead, it’s just beginning - we work side-by-side with educators and school leaders, fitting our products into the lived reality of classrooms and schools.
The Manager of Professional Development for Amplify Science will be involved in all aspects of Professional Development: delivery of internal PL and teacher, administrator and district professional development; design of internal and teacher professional development materials; hiring, mentoring, on-going training of new Amplify Science Specialists; the supervision and evaluation of a region or group of Specialists; and administrative tasks to support the Science PL team, including onboarding of schools, budgeting and revenue recognition. The Manager of Professional Learning for Amplify Science will also work with other teams within Amplify to improve and expand the Amplify Science curriculum; to support strategic sales and marketing initiatives; and to ensure effective large-scale implementations.
The Manager of Professional Learning for Amplify Science will report to the Executive Director of Implementation and Professional Development: Amplify Science and be part of the Science PL management team, which includes the Regional Managers of Science, the Operations Manager of New Curriculum, and Executive Director of Professional Development of New Curriculum.
Responsibilities of the Manager; Professional Learning Delivery - Amplify Science
Service Delivery & Supports:
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with schools and districts implementing Amplify Science
• Run program centric assessment and/or usage data reports to lead customer and team data chats
• Facilitate and/or participate in regional customer meetings with sales reps or email communications with the sales reps to design PL for an implementation
• Participate in implementation calls for customers to learn about the school culture, clarify and develop plan based on services purchased; ensure the assigned Specialist is prepared to deliver against this plan; Work with teachers/admins to integrate the Science curriculum with school/ district curriculum objectives
• Maintain current information regarding status of a school’s implementation for internal and external reporting
• Manage regional Salesforce scheduling data and assignments for PL Specialists
• Manage delivery of “burn-down” reports of scheduled and outstanding delivery days
• Provide direct services delivery, as needed
Nurturing and Evaluating PL Specialists:
• Participate in the hiring of new Science Specialists - reviewing resumes, interviewing, and crafting tasks for potential hires.
• Participate in the ongoing development of new Science Specialists as coaches, mentors and course leaders (remote and onsite)
• Supervise a region or group of PL Specialists and lead the evaluation/performance review of these Specialists
• Work with the Executive Director of PL: Science to plan and facilitate Science PL team meetings and ongoing 1:1 strategy meetings with PL Specialists
• Collaborate with the Executive Director of PL on future planning for the Science PL team.
• Use customer satisfaction data effectively to provide team direction
PL/PL Design & Product Collaboration:
• Work collaboratively with the PL Design and Development team to write, review and create professional development and teacher materials.
• Collaborate with the PL Design and Development and Product teams to develop and deliver internal training on new features in the Amplify Science curriculum
• Participate in quarterly product planning workshops and be a member of 3 month product develop teams that require input from field.
• Act as a liaison between Science PL team and product to both bring the voice of the field to product discussions and relay product discussions and decisions to Science PL team.
• Coordinate with teacher focus group lead as needed for new product/feature testing.
• Work with product communication lead to create teacher-facing communication about new features/products and how to disseminate this communication
• Collaborate with CAO of Science and content team on the creation of new content and the revision of existing content.
• Be the voice of the field for other Amplify teams to inform their projects.
Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree of Education or Instructional Technology, Curriculum Development
• 3+ years of K-8 classroom teaching experience
• Experience delivering professional development for teachers; coaching experience
• Passionate about Teaching, Learning and Curriculum
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Proven efficacy in time management while facilitating multiple engagements; demonstrates business acumen
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrate proficiency of technology integration in workshops and in the classroom
• Demonstrate proficiency in use of technology based productivity tools such as Microsoft, Google Applications, etc…)
Preferred Qualifications
• Instructional leadership experience
• Experience analyzing data and using it to inform practice
• Curriculum Development Experience
• Current Licensure
• Biliteracy a plus (Spanish)
Regional and National Travel Required
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.