Director of Instructional Support - Elementary Reading Initiative

Summary

Join Instruction Partners as the Director-Instructional Support, Elementary Reading Initiative (DIS-ERI) and lead the ERI with school district and school leaders, aiming to improve reading skills for all children. You will be responsible for developing data-informed plans for reading improvement, strengthening leaders' instructional and change management skills, and collaborating with internal and external colleagues to ensure effective ERI implementation. This role involves extensive travel (50-60%) and requires strong instructional expertise, experience in elementary reading and supporting multilingual learners, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary of $120,000, comprehensive benefits, and a generous vacation policy.

Requirements

• 8+ years of educational experience and 3+ years of system-level leadership or school leadership
• Experience leading instructional improvement at the school level, with a track record of improving reading achievement and language development for multilingual learners
• Knowledge of school leadership levers, decisions, and change management implications — understand and able to provide recommendations on the full range of decisions that leaders can make at the school level to organize instruction, staff and student/family engagement
• Quick ability to understand the assets, needs and personalities of a school system in order to help develop plans that will work for their context
• Strong instructional instincts and experience in elementary reading and in supporting multilingual learners
• Great communication skills verbally and in writing, with an ability to develop quick rapport and build trust
• Detail orientation, organization and ability to keep multiple projects moving forward concurrently
• Data driven orientation and a commitment to whatever works best rather than attachment to pet theories or particular ideologies
• Versatility and a total learner mentality: comfort learning about new content areas and approaches to work and putting them into practice with partners

Responsibilities

• Support a portfolio of schools and systems to build, strengthen, and maintain a strong Elementary Reading System that ensures entire schools of classrooms deliver consistently strong Tier 1 literacy instruction to all children and data-informed individualized instruction that boosts and accelerates learning from Tier 1
• Lead system and school reviews to diagnose strengths and opportunities and work closely with partners to develop multi-year strategic maps of improvement and short cycle action plans to guide change
• Serve as the primary point of contact for partners and their questions; connect partners to resources, information and research from within the network and across the sector to help schools and systems solve targeted literacy and change management challenges
• Build relationships with school and system leaders and strengthen the instructional and change management capacities of these leaders
• Customize pre-designed ERI deliverables to reflect district and school context and internalize in preparation for project launch, summits, and key opportunities for educator professional learning
• Manage partner contracts and deliverables to achieve district- and school-level goals
• Support the implementation of a research study of the initiative, in close collaboration with the SD, an external evaluator, and our internal Research & Development team
• Prepare for and actively participate in internal learning meetings to monitor and continuously improve the implementation of ERI in both the short- and long-term, in collaboration with SD-ERI, SD-Elementary Reading Design & Implementation, Director-ML Support,  and our internal Research & Development team

Preferred Qualifications

Spanish proficiency is highly preferred

Benefits

Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options are available, as well as a generous vacation policy