Learning & Instructional Coach

Reporting to the Learning and Instructional Director, the Learning and Instructional Coach is responsible for supporting the quality of City Year LA’s (CYLA) Attendance, Behavior, Math, and English Language Arts (ELA) supports during the school day and after school in ~20 schools across Los Angeles Unified School District. This person will typically be 60% field based, working at one of our partner schools (Elementary, Middle, or High Schools), and 40% based hybrid at our CYLA office or remote. The Learning and Instructional Coach ensures that AmeriCorps Members (ACMs) who work directly with students and their staff Program Managers have the training, coaching, and support they need to deliver meaningful academic and behavioral interventions.

This role is ideal for a quality coach and educator 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.

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.
• Give positive and constructive feedback to ACMs as well as connect them with resources to help support improving student outcomes.
• Use a variety of approaches (i.e. host monthly community builders, conduct 1:1 coaching conversations, etc.) to build rapport with ACMs and staff managers to enable productive coaching and learning.
• Conduct office hours to support ACMs in planning for interventions with their students.  
• 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.

Program Team Collaboration & Service Model Fidelity

• Facilitate collaboration meetings with Program staff to identify AmeriCorps Member learning gaps and develop solutions and/or targeted trainings.
• Coach Staff Program Managers in improving their coaching skills, understanding of our Service Model, and ability to develop their ACM teams in providing high-quality interventions to students.

Instructional Expertise

• Stay abreast of effective instructional practices and conduct research in subject areas as necessary.
• Collaborate with other members of the Learning & Instructional Team to monitor progress in socio-emotional and academic outcomes across our ~20 schools.
• Develop, update, and manage socio-emotional and academic tools and training resources for ACM and Staff.
• Collaborate with CYLA Impact Analytics Team to identify and improve data systems to monitor students’ socio-emotional and academic outcomes.

Adult Learning Facilitation

• Design and facilitate training for specific school-based teams based on observation data and progress monitoring.
• Work with a team of Coaches to design content, tools, and resources for ACM and staff learning and skill development to support student outcomes.
• Facilitate quality training to groups of 6 to 200 AmeriCorps Members to build necessary skillsets to support students in math, ELA, and behavior.
• Work with a team cross-departmentally to design and execute 5 learning summits throughout the fiscal year.

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 strategy, 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:  

• Executes to Results: 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 Development: 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
• 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.
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Full time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation and 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 and vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), 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.

COVID-19 Notice 

Our number one priority is the health and safety of our employees and AmeriCorps members and their families; our students and school partners; and the community at large from COVID-19. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for employment and service – all staff members, including remote staff, and AmeriCorps members are required to be fully vaccinated* no later than their start date. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons or sincerely-held religious beliefs, we will consider requests for reasonable accommodation consistent with our policy, and where we are able to provide such accommodations without undue hardship to the organization pursuant to applicable law. Notwithstanding any language herein, City Year will comply with any state, local, or federal orders, statutes, or regulations that may conflict with the COVID-19 vaccination policy. 

*Individuals are considered fully vaccinated 14 days after the completion of their primary vaccination series.