Stride
Quality Specialist
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $41K - $52K
💻 Other
🗓️ August 21st, 2025
Salesforce
Edtech.com's Summary
K12, a Stride Company is hiring a Quality Specialist. The role involves researching state teacher certification requirements, managing certification and course assignment databases, ensuring compliance with state laws, and supporting hiring and onboarding processes. The specialist collaborates with leadership and various teams to maintain quality staffing and compliance.
Highlights
- Research and manage state certification laws and compliance for teaching staff.
- Maintain Course Management Database, Teacher Certification Management System, and Learning Management Systems.
- Ensure teachers are assigned to courses according to state certification requirements.
- Manage teacher workloads, cross-certification, and staffing needs based on enrollment and regulations.
- Coordinate teacher recruitment, interviews, hiring, and certification verification.
- Provide consultation to Sales and Client Success teams regarding client support and staffing changes.
- Required qualifications: Bachelor's Degree, 5 years education experience, ability to travel 10%, and pass background check.
- Preferred skills: Microsoft Office suite, web proficiency, Salesforce experience, database management, and master's degree in education-related field.
- Compensation range is approximately $40,575.60 to $52,000 annually, with eligibility for bonuses and benefits.
- Work is full-time, home-based, with typical hours of 9-5 or as defined by the school.
Quality Specialist Full Description
Quality Specialist
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Job Description
Residency Requirements
- This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.
K12, a Stride Company, believes in Education for ANY ONE. We provide families an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience. Students can thrive, find their passion, and learn in an environment that encourages discovery at their own pace.
Passionate Educators are needed at the Stride K12 program, the Shared Teacher Pool (STEP). We want you to be a part of our talented team!
The mission of the Shared Teacher Pool (STEP) is to provide an exemplary individualized and engaging educational experience for students by incorporating school and community/family partnerships coupled with a rigorous curriculum along with a data-driven and student-centered instructional model. Student success will be measured by valid and reliable assessment data, parent and student satisfaction, and continued institutional growth within the academic community. Join us!
The Quality Specialist (QS) is responsible for conducting research related to state teacher certification requirements. The QS manages information databases, ensuring the appropriate certification records are maintained for the teaching population and appropriate course assignments are made. The QS researches, organizes, monitors and distributes information for to ensure quality staffing and compliance with state laws. The QS also organizes and participates in the hiring and onboarding process.
This is a full-time position. Ability to work independently, typically 40+ hours per week is required. Ability to maintain a professional home office without distraction during workday, typically 9-5 (or 8-4) or as defined by the school.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Subject matter expert for State Department of Education certification and compliance laws and regulations
- Research certification laws and requirements; reports findings to Leadership, Compliance and Legal teams
- Propose plans and collaborates with Leadership, Compliance, and Legal teams to make decisions that impact instructional implementation and staffing
- Consultant for Sales team by providing a prognosis on ability to support potential new clients and/or offering solutions to meet client needs
- Supports and notifies Client Success team of changes due to workforce management and/or compliance
- Manages and ensures accuracy of Course Management Database, Teacher Certification Management System, and Learning Management Systems
- Determines appropriate placement of all teachers to ensure individual courses are assigned to properly certified teachers, according to state laws
- Balance teacher loads according to state laws, fiscal responsibility, and workforce management
- Manages teacher cross-certification, identifying business needs, state requirements and potential candidates
- Determines staffing needs and FTE adjustments based off state laws and regulations, enrollment trends, and potential new clients
- Creates and manages requisitions, serves as point of contact for recruitment of all teachers, facilitates digital interviews, and determines new hire placement
- Ensures certification submissions meet requirements for all new hires and re-certifications (e.g. legal evidence of cert, validation of cert type for subject, in good standing and current)
- Actively participates in training and professional development
- Collaborates with team to identify teachers of the month and teacher of the year
- Identifies teacher availability for short- and long-term projects, special assignments, etc.
- Other duties as assigned
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Five (5) years of experience in education
- Ability to travel 10% of the time
- Ability to clear required background check
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Teams etc.); Web proficiency
- Ability to renew teaching certificate
- Knowledge of company’s instructional platforms, course catalog, Instructional Services Team Teacher Guidelines, and SharePoint
- Experience with database management
- Experience using Salesforce
- Master degree in an education related field
Compensation & Benefits: Stride, Inc. considers a person’s education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position’s work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee’s salary level. Salaries will differ based on these factors, the position’s level and expected contribution, and the employee’s benefits elections. Offers will typically be in the bottom half of the range.
- We anticipate the salary range to be $40,575.60 - $52,000.00. Eligible employees may receive a bonus. This salary is not guaranteed, as an individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions. Stride offers a robust benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This is a home-based position
Job TypeRegular
The above job is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor. All employment is “at-will” as governed by the law of the state where the employee works. It is further understood that the “at-will” nature of employment is one aspect of employment that cannot be changed except in writing and signed by an authorized officer.
If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you can request the appropriate accommodation by contacting stridecareers@k12.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
Stride, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law. Stride, Inc. complies with all legally required affirmative action obligations. Applicants will not be discriminated against because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
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