Professional Learning Delivery Consultants (Remote, Part-Time)

• Travel as necessary; expenses reimbursed by NWEA
• Work collaboratively with the Manager of Professional Learning Services to ensure delivery of successful professional learning events
• Attain and maintain NWEA qualification status in designated workshops by participating in required online and/or in-person learning events and completing necessary coursework
• Facilitate professional learning workshops for partners as they implement NWEA’s products and services; use adult learning strategies and other inquiry-based activities to ensure participant engagement, understanding of content and application of material learned to their work
• Facilitate professional learning content effectively and accurately, gauging the learners’ needs.
• Submit appropriate documentation and reports within specified timeframes
• Conduct planning conversations about the events with partners relative to professional development needs

Traits for Success

• Ability to collaborate with partners and staff to develop supportive relationships
• Seamless use and navigation of technology in the workshop setting (including projectors, Zoom-type applications, file download, Microsoft Office programs, etc.)
• Excellent writing, proofreading, organization, communication, and technology skills (PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Word)
• Strong problem-solving skills, situational awareness, and sound judgment to adapt professional learning opportunities to changing environments and partner needs
• Experience supporting schools/districts in the school improvement process
• Strong facilitation skills and experience conducting professional learning opportunities to a wide audience of professionals. Professional Learning Facilitators are not merely delivering a canned presentation; they engage the audience with enthusiasm, discussion, and hands-on adult learning approaches
• Experience with NWEA products and services highly preferred
• Comfort with online learning and delivery modalities. Examples include webinars, virtual collaborative workspaces, wikis, web-conferences, learning in an online classroom, and learning management systems
• Experience working with educators in the use of formative assessment

• Customer focus: build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Demonstrates self-awareness: use a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Action-oriented: take on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Collaborates: build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Interpersonal savvy: relate openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Situational adaptability: adapt approach and demeanor in real-time to match the shifting demands of different situations
• Instills trust: gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Communicates effectively: develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Drive results: consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances.
• Manages complexity: make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

• High School Reading, Math or Science
• Experience in guiding educators in use of data (preferred)
• Social Emotional Learning
• Minimum 2 years’ experience of classroom teaching or administration (in K-12) is required
• Spanish, ELL, ESL, EAL
• Accessibility & Accommodations knowledgeable
• Instructional Coaching
• Minimum 2 years’ experience teaching adult learners is preferred
• School Improvement
• Early Literacy
• Equity
• Experience with NWEA products and services (preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in Education required
• Experience in any of the following areas (preferred):
  • Early Literacy
  • Spanish, ELL, ESL, EAL
  • High School Reading, Math or Science
  • District/Executive Level Leadership
  • School Improvement
  • Instructional Coaching
  • Social Emotional Learning
  • Culturally Responsive Leadership
  • Accessibility & Accommodations knowledgeable
  • Equity
  • Assessment Literacy
• Assessment Literacy
• Culturally Responsive Leadership
• Formal educational training beyond college in formative assessment or coaching (preferred)
• Experience using formative assessment practices and strategies (preferred)
• Master’s degree in Education is preferred
• District/Executive Level Leadership

About Us
NWEA® is a research-based, not-for-profit organization that supports students and educators worldwide by creating assessment solutions that precisely measure growth and proficiency—and provide timely data to help tailor instruction. For more than 40 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K–12 assessments, including our flagship interim assessment, MAP® Growth™ and reading fluency and comprehension assessment, MAP® Reading Fluency™. Educators trust our professional learning offerings to accelerate student learning and our research to support assessment validity and data interpretation. More than 11 million students in 146 countries use our solutions to support their learning and growth each year.

NWEA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. For our EEO Policy Statement, please visit our website. If you’d like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please visit the EEOC website