Implementation Coach - New Mexico, Next Education Workforce

Arizona State University

Implementation Coach - New Mexico, Next Education Workforce

Off-Campus: Other US Locations

JR103045

End Date: March 3, 2025 (12 days left to apply)

Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Department Statement:

ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation creates knowledge, mobilizes people, and takes action to improve education. Nationally recognized as a leader in teacher preparation, leadership development and scholarly research, Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation prepares over 8,000 educators annually. MLFC faculty create knowledge by drawing from a wide range of academic disciplines to gain insight into important questions about the process of learning, the practice of teaching and the effects of education policy. MLFC mobilizes people through bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs, through non-degree professional development programs and through socially embedded, multilateral community engagement. MLFC takes action by bringing people and ideas together to increase the capabilities of individual educators and the performance of education systems.

Aligned with ASU’s charter, MLFC is committed to advancing inclusive excellence in our curricula, programming and institutional relationships.

Job Description:

Salary $60,000 - $116,000 per year; DOE

For the past five years, ASU’s Next Education Workforce Initiative has been working with school districts and charter management organizations in Arizona – and now across the U.S. – to envision, design and launch team-based, strategic school staffing models. All told, Next Education Workforce has supported more than 150 schools across nearly 50 districts in 17 states to launch team-based staffing models.

Our team comprises twenty-seven dedicated professionals who bring a range of experience in P-12 education to the work. We have held roles as superintendents, principals, teachers, paraeducators, teaching artists, and curriculum designers. The person hired for this role will be a member of the Next Education Workforce’s Implementation & Design team.

The candidate hired for this position will provide in-person coaching and support to New Mexico schools on a regular basis and also organize and host in-person and virtual professional learning for schools multiple times each year. The candidate may also support several schools outside of New Mexico to deepen their expertise in coaching schools that are implementing Next Education Workforce team-based models.

If you have questions about this position, please email Andrea LaRocca, hiring committee lead, at andrea.larocca@asu.edu.

Essential Duties:

Work with school and district/CMO partners and Next Education Workforce team members to:

• Synthesize and share implementation patterns and trends across the district/CMO.
• Inform strategy for expansion and implementation of team-based models in partner districts/CMOs and across New Mexico.
• Provide updates on progress and ensure project outcomes are being met.
• Support additional schools as they explore and prepare to launch team-based models.

Coach school leadership teams to drive impact:

• Cultivate strong coaching relationships with school leaders, grounded in trust, shared goals, and mutual accountability.
• Guide school leadership teams in aligning their vision, instructional priorities, and team structures to effectively implement team-based models.
• Support school leaders in setting clear priorities and goals rooted in the Elements of the Next Education Workforce, developing strong implementation plans, and establishing progress monitoring systems to drive continuous improvement at both the school and team levels.

Support educator teams through continuous improvement:

• In collaboration with school and system leaders, facilitate structured coaching cycles with pilot educator teams as needed, strengthening team effectiveness, collaborative planning, and the strategic use of shared instructional time.
• Partner with school leadership to conduct non-evaluative observations and provide actionable feedback that advances team-based model implementation.

Desired Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in any field AND advanced degree(s) in the field of education or a related field.

An ideal candidate for this position lives in New Mexico (or the immediate area) and has a deep knowledge and understanding of the state’s PK-12 schools, school systems and state-level conditions and policies.

Experience teaching and leading:

• Experience teaching and leading in PK-12 environments in varied roles, ideally in learner-centered or innovative environments.
• Experience teaching and leading in secondary settings, ideally in middle school.

Experience successfully managing multiple complex, concurrent projects:

• Thrives in a working environment that prioritizes action, iteration and continual learning with a large, inclusive set of stakeholders
• Experience establishing clear priorities when managing multiple large workstreams with competing demands.

Skillful relationship building and collaboration:

• Builds and sustains trust-based relationships to foster collaboration and achieve shared goals.
• Cultivates trust with a wide array of stakeholders, including school leaders, educators, and partners.
• Demonstrates empathy and active listening to understand needs and contexts.

Working Environment:

• This is a remote position.
• Requires travel within New Mexico for on-site time with partner schools.
• Travel to Arizona and potentially other regions several times a year.
• Percentage of travel time varies by month and home location.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and five (5) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Instructions to Apply

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• Resume/CV

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ASU Statement

Arizona State University is a new model for American higher education, an unprecedented combination of academic excellence, entrepreneurial energy and broad access. This New American University is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental health of the communities it serves. Its research is inspired by real world application blurring the boundaries that traditionally separate academic disciplines. ASU serves more than 100,000 students in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, the nation's fifth largest city. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all fifty states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.

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