Senior Learning & Instructional Coach

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Number of Positions: 1

Compensation: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00 Commensurate with Experience and Location

Position Overview

Reporting to the Senior Service Director, the Senior Learning and Instructional Coach is responsible for supporting the quality of City Year LA’s (CYLA) Attendance, Behavior, Math, and English Language Arts (ELA) intervention services during the school day and after school in ~20+ schools across Los Angeles Unified School District and other partner districts. The Senior Learning and Instructional Coach ensures coaches and Program Staff have the training and structure to ensure AmeriCorps Members, who work directly with students, deliver meaningful academic and behavioral interventions.

This managerial position leads a team of 3-5 coaches and supports adopting a site-wide approach to developing AmeriCorps members. This person will typically be 50% field-based, working at one of our partner schools (Elementary, Middle, or High Schools), and 50% based hybrid at our CYLA office or remote. This role is ideal for a quality coach and educator with managerial experience who is looking for an opportunity to expand their impact working with our young future leaders to support improving our education system towards more just and equitable outcomes for all students.

City Year values and continuously works to build an equitable and inclusive culture where people with diverse lived experiences feel they belong.

Job Description

Responsibilities

AmeriCorps Member Academic & Behavioral Support Coaching

• Visit 2 to 3 schools per week.
• Conduct weekly observations of ACMs in-classroom and/or out-of-classroom planned academic and behavioral interventions with students
• Provide positive and constructive feedback to ACMs and connect them with resources to support improving student outcomes.
• Use a variety of approaches (e.g., hosting monthly community builders, conducting 1:1 coaching conversation, office hours etc.) to build rapport with ACMs and staff managers and enable productive coaching and learning.
• Collect and share observations/trends of our work with students with the program leadership team to support ongoing progress monitoring and improvements to our program.

Team Management & Service Model Fidelity

• Supervise a team of three Learning and Instructional Coaches.
• Create and maintain a positive, inclusive, and collaborative work environment that fosters open communication, mutual respect, and high team morale.

• Collaborate closely with the Learning and Instruction Director to ensure accurate delegation of training and content.
• Manage a site-wide approach to observation and coaching for the department.
• Coordinate team support to the Learning and Development Director and Program staff with all AmeriCorps member learning, training, and service evaluation.
• Coach Staff Program Managers to improve their coaching skills, understanding of our Service Model, and ability to develop their ACM teams to provide high-quality interventions to students.
• In collaboration with the team, develop a system for measuring ACMs practice with students to identify areas of growth and appropriate next steps.

Instructional Expertise

• Stay abreast of effective instructional practices and research subject areas as necessary.
• Collaborate with other Team members to monitor progress in socio-emotional and academic outcomes across our ~22 schools.
• Develop, update, and manage training resources for ACM and Staff, as needed.

Adult Learning Facilitation

• Design and facilitate training for specific school-based teams based on observation data and progress monitoring.
• As needed, facilitate quality training for groups of 6 to 200 AmeriCorps Members to build the necessary skills to support students in math, ELA, and behavior.

Site & Department Support

• Partner with CYLA departments and staff through stakeholder engagement, event and service day participation, and cross-departmental committees as needed to ensure site-wide goals are met.
• Use your expertise and understanding of CYLA’s service model to support ACM selection through interviews.
• Support the execution of site-wide goals through collaboration with program staff and leadership.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to make share