University of Delaware
School Success Specialist
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Newark, DE
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Academic Advising
🗓️ June 17th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Customize and provide professional learning tailored to Local Education Agency needs.
- Deliver coaching support that aligns across multiple departments and workgroups.
- Develop and maintain brand integrity in all professional materials and communications.
- Promote SSC services through committee work, conferences, and printed and digital media.
- Contribute to grant writing and participate in SSC initiatives and hiring committees.
- Design and implement face-to-face, hybrid, and virtual professional learning and coaching sessions with full contact load.
- Collect and analyze data related to program effectiveness.
- Require a Bachelor's degree (advanced degree preferred) with five years of relevant experience and at least four years teaching PK-16.
- Must have strong knowledge of evidence-based leadership practices and professional development strategies.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Apps, and experience working with diverse and low-performing urban or rural schools is required.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel short notice both in-state and out-of-state.
School Success Specialist Full Description
The School Success Center (SSC) is a professional learning, research translation, and policy center that aims to improve public education in the K-12 community. With centers located in Newark, DE and Georgetown, DE, SSC provides district administrators, school leaders, and teachers with high-quality professional development, coaching and advocacy for evidenced-based education practices and policies. The SSC supports a dedicated team of approximately 40 full-time and part-time education professionals and maintains several school and community partnerships in Delaware and increasingly across the country.
Under the limited direction of the Assistant Director the School Success Specialist is committed to working with and supporting educators in schools by designing and delivering high quality professional development, coaching teachers, and administrators, and influencing State policy related to standards, training and working conditions for teachers and school leaders. This position requires someone with significant knowledge of PK-12 educational leadership in low-performing urban and/or rural schools with diverse populations.
The position requires coaching and professional development, as well as experience working with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), writing School Improvement Plans, designing and implementing professional learning programs for education leaders, responding to Requests for Proposals from the Delaware Department of Education or other external funding source, and understanding performance evaluation systems for teachers and administrators. This person must be committed to growing and developing school leaders throughout the career continuum, preparing them to tackle the challenges of leading schools in the 21st-century.
• Provide coaching support to Local Education Agency that is cohesive across work groups and departments.
• Ensure brand integrity across docs, slides, etc.
• Market services of SSC via committee assignments, conference presentations, print materials, product production, and networking.
• Collaborate with grant writing working group.
• Serve on and implement SSC initiatives.
• Design, plan, prepare, deliver, and follow-up on face-to-face, hybrid, and virtual Professional Learning and coaching with as assigned. 100% contact load.
• Serve on hiring committees.
• Collect data.
• Four years’ experience teaching PK-16.
• Strong knowledge of evidence-based practices for professional development.
• Deep knowledge of evidence-based practices in K-12 leadership, math, literacy, or Multi-tiered Systems of Support.
• Ability to provide professional development and technical guidance in integrating new curriculum and evidence-based instructional strategies into the classroom.
• Ability to problem-solve, implement, and evaluate solutions.
• Program coordination and organizational skills.
• Experience delivering professional development in schools, or at state and national conferences.
• Experience working in low-performing urban and rural schools with diverse populations.
• Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders including the State Department of Education, department, district and school administrators, teacher, parents and community members.
• Competence in Microsoft Office products and Google Apps with the ability to write reports and prepare professional presentations.
Special Requirements:
• Valid driver’s license.
• Ability to travel in-State and out-of-state with short notice, sometimes for a week.
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