Professional Learning Facilitator - PART-TIME/TEMP

World Savvy•Saint Paul, MN

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

World Savvy is seeking a global education-minded professional for a part-time, temporary role as a Professional Learning Facilitator. This position is crucial for executing and refining program materials, tools, and resources aligned with the organization's vision. The role involves implementing programs with students, teachers, administrators, and community members, including facilitating professional learning and consulting on embedding global competence into teaching, learning, and school culture. The ideal candidate will have at least seven years of PK-12 classroom experience, previous experience coaching and providing professional development to PK-12 educators, and possess creativity, innovation, comfort with ambiguity, and an entrepreneurial mindset. Strong public speaking, presentation, networking, and engagement skills are essential. This temporary position offers an opportunity to contribute to educational impact within a collaborative, mission-driven team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Education
Minimum of 7 years of PK-12 classroom experience.
Experience leading professional development for educators and school leaders to engage and support ethnically, culturally, and socio-economically diverse youth.
Significant experience public speaking/ presenting in front of large groups (50+ people).
Strong presentation, interpersonal, intercultural, and written communication skills.
Experience developing and implementing project-based learning experiences.
Global education experience and proven success in the field.
Knowledge of the local and national education landscape.
Comfort with ambiguity and change
Entrepreneurial mindset and energy for innovation and iteration.
Ability to navigate varied and complex school environments as an outside consultant.
Ability to guide the ongoing improvement of core World Savvy program elements, as it connects to the organization's strategic growth.
Proven ability to use instructional technology and virtual tools to solve problems and work with others.
Ability to work effectively in a small and collaborative team environment.
Proficiency and willingness to use current workplace technologies, including but not limited to Zoom, Slack, Salesforce, and all Google applications.
Solution-oriented approach, with excellent project management skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, mission-driven, and goals oriented environment.
Comfort with small and large group facilitation as well as 1:1 coaching.

Nice To Haves

Experience with PK-12 school administration or instructional leadership preferred.

Responsibilities

Plan and execute, in collaboration with other Program Team members, all aspects of professional learning and coaching for school, district, and strategic partners.
Dynamically lead high-quality professional learning sessions (on-site and online) for educators, school leaders, and strategic partners that ensure active engagement of participants and yield high satisfaction and value ratings.
Empathetically provide coaching support for educators and school leaders to develop project-based curriculum and assessment that embeds global competence into practice and advances equity.
Empathetically provide coaching support for educators and school leaders to develop high-quality student projects that model the evolution of "Knowledge to Action."
Creatively and effectively use electronic and online technology and teaching practices to engage learners in-person and/or remotely.
Actively support the recruitment and retention of new and existing program sites and partnerships.
Skillfully translate educator, school, and district needs into tailored global competence activities, materials, tools, and resources.
Effectively implement all programming, ensuring high-quality, collaborative, and powerful experiences rated highly by participants.
Strategically acquire and apply knowledge of global competence education and the global education field, developing an understanding of educator and district needs to support continuous program improvement and valued learning opportunities.
Proactively coordinate with World Savvy staff to plan logistics around program needs and group gatherings, including professional development workshops.
Enthusiastically participate in Program Team and other World Savvy team meetings - bringing ideas, giving and receiving feedback, and supporting the mission of the organization.
Empathetically provide support to school leaders to help them think systematically about how to embed global competence into teaching, learning, and school culture.
Build and maintain relationships valued by participating educators and students, ensuring program retention and engagement levels remain high.
Research and develop aligned programmatic materials in a variety of formats for in-person and asynchronous use.
Represent World Savvy at regional and national conferences and be able to dynamically present our work in front of large audiences.