Summary

Save the Children’s U.S. Programs (USP) division is committed to ensuring that all children in rural America have a healthy, strong foundation to thrive as learners and in life. Our contribution to a full cradle-to-career continuum is focused on the early years, birth through elementary school; and our goals are to increase kindergarten readiness and grade-level literacy and math proficiency for children in under-resourced rural communities. Save the Children does whatever it takes to be there for children in times of crisis. 

Save the Children is seeking an Advisor, Grade Level Proficiency. In this role, you will design high quality educational programs and strategies to accelerate learning outcomes for children across rural America. You will work closely with state-based colleagues implementing the programs and research and evaluation colleagues to ensure program quality standards are met, and you will collaborate with fundraising colleagues to drive program growth and development. The ideal person for this position will have extensive content expertise in school-age education specifically with elementary reading curriculums aligned with the Science of Reading, math instruction, experience working in rural communities, and deep knowledge of effective practices for advancing education outcomes for children throughout the elementary years.

 

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Design and Refine Program Models (45%)

Develop new, and refine existing models, strategies, and resources to broaden impact and fill programmatic gaps Design and refine literacy content utilizing latest research and ensuring content alignment with the Science of Reading Collaborate across teams following the organization’s processes to ensure programs are culturally relevant, backed by research and best practice, and aligned to community needs and insights Establish standards for high quality implementation and collaborate with other teams to determine options for customization Collaborate across teams to work with local educational agencies (LEAs), state educational agencies (SEAs), and to innovate and adapt approaches, to align strategies, and meet common goals Collaborate with other teams to utilize lessons learned to inform program design, refinements, and to enhance results

Build Capacity to Implement Programs (25%)

Develop and deliver trainings, technical assistance, and other resources to program implementation colleagues. Lead onboarding processes for school-age program implementation colleagues and other colleagues supporting school-age programming; support recruitment and onboarding of program implementation staff on an ongoing basis. Provide technical advice to support project implementation and to identify and resolve challenges Build programmatic competencies of program implementation colleagues, promoting best practices and ongoing professional development and learning through community of practices and standing technical assistance meetings

Data Entry and Analysis (20%)

Collaborate with program implementation colleagues to monitor quality of program implementation, ensuring programs are on track to meet key metrics (Renaissance STAR, reach expectations, other grant deliverables) Provide guidance to ensure accurate data entry into monitoring and evaluation systems. Support program implementation with analysis of data (Renaissance reports, reach numbers, metrics for quarterly reports, etc.) Analyze and summarize program implementation data to help drive decision making and inform learning (program observations, site visit summaries) Collaborate with research and evaluation colleagues to inform annual goals, targets and reach Collaborate with research and evaluation colleagues to analyze programs’ impact on 3rd grade reading, math scores, and other key metrics

Support Program Growth (10%)

Collaborate with the fundraising team and program implementation colleagues to support the cultivation of partnerships and/or relationships with external organizations, donors and other key stakeholders Contribute to the development of funding proposals, marketing content, donor meetings, proposal reviews, presentations and other external relations that require technical expertise

 

Required Qualifications

Minimum of a Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience Professional proficiency in MS Office suite, Canva, Learning Management System (LMS), and SharePoint Professional proficiency in spoken and written English and Spanish Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging Willingness to travel regionally up to 30%

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in education   Experience with curriculum development for elementary grades Experience developing and leading trainings for elementary education Experience coaching and supporting adults in an education or related area

 

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here). Employee may be eligible for an incentive program.  Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full-time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

 

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, pet insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more. 

Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in YOU!

 

About Save the Children

Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond.  As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.