Start Date: Immediate

Role Type: Full Time

Location: Remote, Southern CA preferred

Who We Are

Learner-Centered Collaborative (LCC) is an educator-led non-profit  company dedicated to partnering with districts and schools nationwide as they shift to learner-centered education. ‍ We have a growing network of public district and independent school partners using our professional learning services as part of their journey towards a learner-centered model. 

About the Learner-Centered Collaborative Leadership & Learning Team

Our Impact team leverages strategic and evidence-based offerings to meet schools, districts, and states where they are on the continuum toward learner-centered education. Our approach provides our partners with practice-embedded professional learning specifically designed to put learners first. 

Our work is guided by our Learner-Centered framework, which also serves as a blueprint for all our partners as they build out their unique learning models. Learner-centered education is most effective when a collective learning community progresses toward common goals. We facilitate this by helping partners develop and articulate learner-centered outcomes, support educators in developing effective instructional practices, and create the enabling conditions that result in transformative change.

What You Will Do

Design and Facilitate Professional Learning

• Design and facilitate workshops for teachers and administrators to shift to learner-centered practices
• Coach leaders and teams and engage in strategic planning to support long-term shifts to learner-centered practices
• Co-Design and curate learning resources including protocols, playbooks, toolkits, videos, white papers, etc. for a variety of audiences including regional, state, district, and teaching teams
• Explore new models and offerings for partnerships

Support portfolio of LCC partnerships

• Collaborate with Partners and Director of Strategic Partnerships and execute on contract deliverables to ensure desired impact
• Maintain project plans and track completion, satisfaction, and impact and communicate status to stakeholders, escalating project issues to leadership

Like your LCC colleagues, you:

• Respond to directions and requests from manager
• Set and follow through on a schedule that allocates, optimizes, and leverages use of time to accomplish highest priority goals with a high attention to detail and accuracy
• Identify and break down barriers to collaboration; share decision making authority and accountability, and consistently acknowledge contributions
• Comfortably and appropriately adapt communication style for different people and specific situations
• Offer opinions and recommendations to make movement toward our mission; identify, act and seize opportunities for improvement based in data
• 20-40% domestic travel ranging from a day up to a week. Travel costs and meals covered. 

What You’ve Done and Learned Along The Way

• 5+ years managing strategic partnerships across a broad range of audiences and outcomes
• Demonstrable experience with change management and comfort in navigating the unique needs, constraints, and expectations of partners
• Prior experience with coaching professionals to become better in their unique roles and responsibilities
• Proven track record of building long-lasting relationships with state level and/or district partners and stakeholders; ie year over year contracts for services
• Strong professional presence and the ability to connect with partners and decision-makers at all levels of an organization 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including strong public speaking and presentation skills and the ability to listen and synthesize information quickly
• Strong project management skills

Why You Want This Job! 

You are known for leveraging resources to creatively solve problems. You plan ahead and find alternative paths, when needed, to get to the finish line. You enjoy building authentic relationships across lines of difference, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, ability, gender identity, citizenship status, or other identities. An expert communicator, you can easily navigate complex conversations and keep them productive. You have a passion for meeting ALL learners (students, parents, teachers, leaders, support staff) where they are, finding their unique strengths and talents and co-creating support opportunities to accomplish their goals. You understand that an industrial model of education is a thing of the past and willingly embrace and navigate the messy middle of change to support educators as they shift to learner-centered models; anchoring the work in core values, learner-centered beliefs, and high levels of collaboration.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work in a mission-driven environment
• The annual cash compensation for this role in California is targeted at $80,000-$120,000 annually. Individual salary offers will depend on and may vary with location, relevant education, knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Greatly subsidized medical/dental/vision coverage for employees and their families
• Generous parental leave and paid time off, including volunteer time 
• FSA/401k
• A fun and flexible workplace that is serious about work/life balance
• We are a fully remote organization with two annual retreats

Apply Now

Please submit a cover letter that explains why you would be a great fit for this role along with your current resume to careers@learnercentered.org.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this opportunity.

​​Our firm is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States. If you require an accommodation during the interview process, please indicate the same when responding to this posting.

DEI Statement

At the heart of learner-centered education is an acknowledgment that every learner is unique and capable. Helping educators shift away from a model that prioritizes standardization and compliance, Learner-Centered Collaborative is part of a broader movement that empowers each student by seeing our unique Identities as assets.  As our CEO has written, “Being learner-centered is a direct challenge to inequality in all forms. At its essence, learner-centered education embraces the notion that equity requires us to see and know one another as real people and then to design improvements as a community.”

That same view holds true for our team: our unique identities are assets. Each employee’s unique experiences, perspectives, and identity are crucial to our success. We bring our authentic selves to our work, and pursue our goals together as a community. We are committed to attracting and retaining team members who reflect the broad, diverse populations we serve and to creating a work environment that is inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.