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Professional Learning Consultant

About this role…

As a Professional Learning Consultant, you will draw upon your significant expertise and experience in facilitation and coaching to accelerate and deepen the acquisition and application of adult learning, develop skills, and coordinate methodologies and system-wide organizational practices to improve student growth. You will work with our partners to develop, coordinate, and deliver professional development plans that ensure deep use of assessment data to drive performance and outcomes at all stakeholder levels. In addition, you will work collaboratively with other teams within HMH and provide leadership and mentorship for other Professional Learning Consultants and Facilitators. This full-time opportunity includes competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package.

Your next challenge…

• Promote a team environment with partners and within the organization that values encourages, and supports differences that will help determine needs, values, and motivators.
• Provide virtual and in-person professional learning as partners implement HMH’s NWEA line of products, services, and solutions.
• Maintain documentation to support all necessary processes for scheduling, sharing information across the organization, etc.
• Demonstrate proficiency in using a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop a deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in meaningful ways
• Maintain composure with a positive attitude and growth mindset in stressful situations.
• Model collaboration across the organization, balancing own interests with internal stakeholders.
• Deliver messaging in a clear, compelling, and concise manner while actively listening to check for understanding including but not limited to establishing and maintaining contact with partners, particularly complex partners, to gather qualitative and quantitative data to inform professional development design and delivery.
• Engage learners to connect concepts to authentic local, and global challenges
• Quickly and decisively act in changing situations with partners and within the organization.
• Ability to travel regionally and nationally.
• Leverage individual differences, diverse cultures, and communities to ensure inclusive learning environments that enable each learner to meet high standards.
• Skillfully navigates between professional stances (e.g. consultative, coaching, facilitating, presenting)
• Effectively manage complex consulting scenarios and schedules.
• Facilitate planning, scheduling, resource allocation, implementation, and progress monitoring with partners leading to planning and prioritizing work that is aligned with the goals established that will lead to successful implementation.
• Partner with key stakeholders to drive successful outcomes, while sharing in ownership for attaining partner goals.

Traits for success…

• Ability to adjust communication content and style to meet the needs of diverse stakeholders.
• Honor commitments and keep confidence, gaining the trust of others.
• Awareness of financial and business perspectives that support organizational goals
• Ability to organize time effectively, determine priorities, and move work forward
• Ability to represent HMH/NWEA as a professional ambassador in our competitive market
• Technology skills in Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and business software connected to our work
• Superior writing and proofing skills and producing thorough and complete documentation in a timely manner
• Solid understanding of educational systems and structures within the current education environment
• Exceptional relationship-building skills with proven ability to coach, and consult with organizational leaders, school leadership teams, instructional coaches, educators, and other key stakeholders that lead to impactful results.
• Proven track record of skillfully navigating difficult internal and external conversations in order to move all partners forward
• Awareness of the skills needed to be successful in different situations and taking consistent action to develop those skills.
• Seek and act positively on feedback from a variety of sources.

Education and Experience…

• Experience with NWEA products and services like MAP Growth, and MAP Reading Fluency.
• Experience in developing and implementing professional learning plans for large, complex school districts and systems (preferred).
• ELL, ESL, bi-lingual or dual language education experience is a definite plus.
• Minimum of five years experience working with School, State, and District leadership teams (preferred).
• Minimum three years of experience facilitating professional learning, coaching school leaders, and/or consulting using data to inform decision-making (required).
• Experience with K – 2 literacy and or knowledge of the Science of Reading.
• Master’s degree in Education or related field; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered in lieu of Master’s degree (required).

Salary Range: 65k - 70k annually.

ABOUT US:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K–12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom. HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide.

For more information, visit http://careers.hmhco.com

PLEASE NOTE:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.