Fast Facts

City Year LA is seeking a Senior Learning & Instructional Coach to enhance academic and behavioral interventions in schools throughout Los Angeles. This managerial role involves supervising a team of coaches and directly supporting AmeriCorps members in delivering effective educational support.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include coaching AmeriCorps members, supervising a coaching team, managing instructional practices, and facilitating training to improve educational outcomes across various schools.

Skills: Candidates should have strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills, as well as a commitment to equitable educational practices.

Qualifications: A Bachelor's Degree, 3+ years of classroom teaching experience, and experience in managing people are preferred, along with familiarity with adult learning theory and data-driven decision making.

Location: This position is based in Los Angeles, CA, with a hybrid working model that includes fieldwork in schools and office/remote work.

Compensation: $60000 - $70000 / Annually

Application Instructions

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Number of Positions: 1Compensation: $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 shared decisions, set strategies, and develop work outputs.
• Support other department functions as needed.

Key Competencies:

In order to succeed in this role, an applicant must have the following competencies: 

• Self Management: Holds self-accountable, sets high expectations for self, efficient time management skills, ability to meet deadlines, and prioritize multiple projects with a positive can-do attitude. Acknowledges and corrects mistakes. Demonstrated performance under pressure and strict deadlines. Can connect tasks to the organizational mission to communicate effectively internally and externally.
• Communication: Conveys thoughts clearly and concisely. Listens well and asks good questions. Communicates well verbally and in writing, tailoring communication for the audience and situation. Ability and desire to work with and promote young people ages 17-24 and a year of service. Seeks to incorporate others’ views into work.
• Relationship Building: Experience building relationships that advance organizational goals. Able to balance own projects against the needs of others. Approachable and friendly. Actively seeks feedback and to understand other’s perspectives, interests, and concerns. Adapts approaches to different people and situations.
• Problem Solving & Flexibility: Can be flexible and adaptable to schedule changes. Links problems & symptoms to identify issues, links decisions to potential consequences, knows when to seek guidance and gets diverse input for decisions.
• Desire to Learn: City Year has a unique service model and organizational culture. Successful applicants have strong experience and a track record of success in the above areas but must be willing and eager to continue to learn. Demonstrate a willingness to work in a collaborative and strong team-based organization.

Qualifications:

We listed what we see as key qualifications to succeed in the role. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement listed. If you have transferable skills and are excited about this role, please apply!

• Bachelor’s Degree; or equivalent work experience
• Experience managing people; or equivalent leadership experience
• 3+ years of classroom teaching experience.
• Experience teaching ELA and/or Math (multi-subject credential preferred)
• Experience teaching Common Core State Standards and English Language Learners.
• Experience tutoring and exposure to adult learning theory.
• Experience using data to identify challenges and develop solutions.
• Strong collaborator and individual contributor who can adapt their style to the circumstances.
• Tenacity and flexibility in the face of challenges; working in high-need environments.
• Passion for service and the City Year mission.
• Experience with Los Angeles Unified School District plus.
• City Year/AmeriCorps experience is a plus.

Benefits

Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. Currently, City Year offers medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document. For more information, click here.

Employment at City Year is at-will. 

City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.