The Opportunity

The Instructional Operations Associate supports Lavinia Group on all operational aspects related to curriculum design, training, implementation, and consulting.

Reporting to the Director of Instructional Operations, this individual will manage critical operational and administrative responsibilities such as training logistics, curriculum content management, and digital platform development.

This role is an exciting opportunity for a skilled operations team member to contribute to Lavinia Group’s organizational mission to provide high-quality educational support in an effort to close the opportunity gap across the country.

What You’ll Do

Project Execution

• Implement the product life cycle for multiple projects, completing the appropriate scope and sequence of work within the timeline required at each phase
• Communicate clearly within and across teams
• Exemplify a mindset that values an iterative cycle of ideation, thought partnering, prototyping, drafting, development, review, and revision
• Work independently in a remote environment
• Adhere to a task and deadline-driven workflow

Operational Skills

• Organize and run logistics for virtual trainings of up to 200 participants
• Organize and manage client-facing and internal-facing digital materials
• Edit and upload video content
• Manage content on our digital platform
• Develop systems for and manage supply and book order processes
• Support the finance team with tracking budget against goals and performing expense report audits
• Create reports and track data for Lavinia Group trainings, consulting days, and partnership accounts
• Support with the planning and execution of annual in-person team retreats

Who You Are

You are values aligned - You resonate with our core value to advance equity in all you do and you share Lavinia Group’s commitment to closing the opportunity gap. You utilize your skills to contribute to a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

You take pride in maintaining a high bar of excellence - With your attention to detail and ability to navigate ambiguity, you deliver excellence with incredibly high standards. You have an ability to envision the bigger picture.

You are a collaborative relationship-builder - Your collaborative spirit means you are receptive to multiple viewpoints, you work well with others within and across teams and you exude excellent customer service.

You shine as an independent problem-solver - You own your projects, solve problems proactively and think flexibly. You welcome feedback and apply it to future work. You take pride in meeting deadlines and your ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

You learn processes and systems quickly and independently.

Qualifications

• At least three to five years operational experience in a fast-paced work environment
• Expertise in Gsuite, especially Google Sheets
• Proficient in back office optimization software (CRM, accounting, project management)
• Familiarity with Canvas as an administrator and course designer preferred

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ABOUT THE POSITION 

Instructional Consultants play a critical role in directly supporting partner schools across the country to achieve world-class instruction through effective professional development and instructional coaching. The ideal candidate has experience leading teams to achieve excellent results in diverse educational settings. 

This role is an exciting opportunity for a skilled instructional leader to contribute to Lavinia Group’s organizational mission to close the opportunity gap across the country. 

Office and Travel: This role requires weekly travel to school sites, typically three-four days a week. While we make every effort to assign Consultants to clients that are in a similar geographic region of the country (e.g., south, northeast), we can make no guarantees about client site locations. There is no central Lavinia Group office, so consultants work from home when not in schools. 

Start date: This role will begin in July 2023.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE (but are not limited to): 

School-Based Support 

• Strategically set the vision for quality instruction and implementation of Lavinia Group’s curriculum and instructional models in a set of school or network/district partnerships to ensure excellent and equitable outcomes for all students 
• Ensure that high-quality, impactful instructional management plans, professional development, and coaching services are provided to teachers, instructional coaches, building leaders, and system leaders 
• Actively monitor progress of partners through onsite coaching, ongoing data analysis, and meetings with key stakeholders 
• Engage in collaborative team structures to ensure alignment between Lavinia Group team members and to continuously improve Lavinia Group’s instructional tools 

Other responsibilities 

• Facilitate high-quality, impactful professional development sessions to a national audience 

RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Track record of achieving excellent results in a school setting working across Grades K-12
• Deep content knowledge in English Language Arts (Bachelors or Masters degree in an associated content area preferred) or Mathematics (Bachelors or Masters degree in an associated content area preferred)
• Superior writing and communication skills
• Teaching experience (5+ years)
• Leadership experience (3+ years)
• Experience with teaching multilingual learners and diverse learner populations preferred
• Knowledge of the Common Core State Standards preferred

IDEAL ATTRIBUTES

• Demonstrates a collaborative spirit
  • Works well with others both within and across teams
  • Receptive to multiple viewpoints
  • Contributes to a big-picture vision 

• Demonstrates ownership
  • Receives feedback well and applies the feedback to future work ○ Problem-solves proactively and thinks flexibly 

• Builds relationships effectively 
• Maintains a commitment to excellence and incredibly high standards 

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ABOUT THE POSITION

The Instructional Operations Intern will support various operations projects related to curriculum and professional development.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist with managing our digital curriculum platform, including:
  • Customer account setup and maintenance
  • Creating, copyediting, and uploading content 
• Assist with supporting RISE summer school program logistics, including:
  • Customer service support 
  • Virtual professional development support
  • Curriculum and assessment platform management
  • Assessment data management
• Establish and maintain systems for organizing curriculum materials
• Assist with operations for professional development events
• Create slide decks and supplemental materials for trainings
• Assist the Director of Instructional Operations with key projects

QUALIFICATIONS

This role is an exciting opportunity for someone who is detail-oriented, organized, and is looking to take on substantial, meaningful projects on the Program Team. The work assigned is critical to support Lavinia Group’s organizational mission to deliver exceptional services to our partner schools as we work together to close the opportunity gap.

Specific qualifications include:

• Currently enrolled in a degree program at a college or university
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace
• Excellent organization skills with strong attention to detail and developed follow-up skills
• Process-oriented 
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team 
• Agile with various technology platforms, such as Zoom

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ABOUT LAVINIA GROUP

At Lavinia Group, we close the opportunity gap by helping our partner schools achieve world-class literacy and math instruction through exceptional leader and teacher training. Since 2015, we've partnered with hundreds of schools to deliver transformative results for over 250,000 students.

Whether as superintendent, principal, or classroom teacher, each Lavinia Group team member has delivered phenomenal results on behalf of the students that they served. As a result of our collective experience, our approach is firmly anchored on the following:

• Intellectual Preparation: The key to excellent student outcomes is to invest like crazy in the adults. We must support leaders and teachers to be confident, passionate, and precise in their own ability to analyze texts and understand the content. In preparing to teach students the art of reading, writing, math, or social studies it’s intellectual preparation that matters most.
• Science of Reading: In an educational landscape that suffers from over-complexity, we clear the clutter and help teachers and leaders make sense of and practically implement research-based Science of Reading methods, including keeping meaning front and center. From structured literacy small groups to building background knowledge through content-based reading to decoding and phonological awareness, we support schools in literacy instruction that leads to fluent readers, sophisticated thinkers, and improved student outcomes.
• World-class Literature: In order for students to be great readers, they must fall in love with reading. In order for students to fall in love with reading, they must have the best literature at their fingertips and ample time to unpack, analyze, and discuss complex grade-level texts.
• Purposeful Problem Solving: If we want to prepare students to solve the problems of tomorrow, then we must prepare them to be problem solvers today. To do this, students need purposeful problems that go beyond simple calculations or the replication of a teacher model, and they need opportunities to reason independently, with partners, and as a class to make meaning from each of these tasks. Through varied problems and experiences, we watch students become mathematicians, ready to take on any new problem that comes their way.
• School-based Training: Just like kids, leaders and teachers learn best by doing. The training / execution gap emerges when ideas presented during professional development are not realized in practice. We preempt this by working with leaders and teachers where the rubber hits the road: in schools and in classrooms. Through our Rapid Improvement Cycle, which includes robust intellectual preparation, practice, and feedback we propel adult learning within our partner schools.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Editorial Manager ensures Lavinia Group’s content is well-written, formatted, and clear while maintaining the organization’s high standards for inquiry-driven, results-based, and culturally responsive literacy curricula.  

Reporting to the Director of Curriculum, the Editorial Manager works closely with internal and external contributors to ensure the creation of clear, consistent, well-written, and well-formatted literacy curricula and supporting materials. The Editorial Manager will play a key role in editorial processes and materials production, evaluating copy edit and proof markup, providing feedback to writers and contractors, and reviewing formatting. This role is an exciting opportunity to contribute to Lavinia Group’s organizational mission to provide a high-quality curriculum to close the opportunity gap across the country.

Content Editing and Formatting

• Supervise and oversee the editorial processes for Lavinia Group’s grades K-5 literacy curriculum throughout all stages of creation and production
• Uphold an incredibly high bar for curriculum writing, editorial style, and formatting
• Liaise with internal and external contributors to achieve editorial alignment, format consistency, and writing quality within and across projects
• Identify content, formatting, and editorial misalignments within and across projects, and create and execute plans to address inconsistencies
• Apply a meticulous attention to detail consistently in all work and communication
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of grammar and expression
• Uphold the Lavinia Group style guide, and apply it to content consistently and flexibly
• Review and evaluate edited materials, and collaborate with and give feedback to writers, designers, copyeditors, and proofreaders
• Actively monitor and incorporate feedback to continuously improve the product
• Demonstrate an editorial sensibility, including the ability to:
  • write and edit using precise and clear language
  • copyedit and proofread for clarity, concision, consistency, and accuracy
  • apply constructive feedback locally and globally in a timely manner
  • implement revisions to project design and content
  • produce consistent content and quality across products and provide feedback to ensure others do the same
• Exhibit independent judgment and decision-making

Project Execution

• Communicate clearly within and across teams, including both internal and external contributors
• Exemplify a mindset that values an iterative cycle of ideation, thought partnership, prototyping, drafting, development, review, and revision
• Work independently in a remote environment
• Adhere to a task and deadline-driven workflow

QUALIFICATIONS

• At least 3 years of related experience, such as content creation and formatting, publishing, and/or editorial work
• At least 5 years of professional experience doing complex independent work, including experience managing processes, people, or projects

• Superior writing and communication skills with demonstrated writing ability

• Background or knowledge in elementary, middle, and/or high school English Language Arts or a degree in English is a plus

IDEAL ATTRIBUTES

• Demonstrates a collaborative spirit
  • Works well with others both within and across teams
  • Receptive to multiple viewpoints
  • Contributes to a big-picture vision
• Demonstrates ownership
  • Receives feedback well and applies the feedback to future work
  • Problem solves proactively and thinks flexibly
• Builds relationships effectively
• Maintains a commitment to excellence and incredibly high standards 

WHY WORK FOR US

We offer a wide variety of benefits, including flexible time off, maternity/paternity leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401K.

Compensation range for this position: $55,000–$85,000.

Sound like a fit? Get more information and apply!