Regional Education Quality & Coaching Manager

Sunshine House•Greenville, SC

About The Position

The Regional Education Quality & Coaching Manager is a field-based instructional leader for The Sunshine House’s Greenville region. The role develops Education Coaches, partners with center and regional operations leaders, and leads measurable improvement in early childhood learning experiences. Using data-informed problem solving, practice-based coaching, professional learning, and quality-improvement cycles, the manager builds adults’ capacity to sustain strong daily teaching practices for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and prekindergarten students, and school-age children as assigned. The position includes coaching and capability development, center diagnostics and quality-improvement leadership, curriculum and teaching-practice support, measurement and documentation, communication, professional learning, assigned project ownership, and cross-functional partnership. The manager is expected to be evidence-seeking, empathetic and candid, accountable, tactful in operations partnerships, self-directed, organized, adaptable, grounded in developmentally appropriate practice, and able to teach others to solve problems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Early Childhood Administration, or a closely related field with demonstrated early childhood content expertise.
At least five years of progressively responsible experience in licensed early care and education, including substantial classroom instructional experience.
At least two years leading, managing, or formally coaching adults.
Demonstrated understanding of center operations, including staffing and scheduling constraints, classroom ratios, licensing readiness, enrollment, and director responsibilities.
Knowledge of effective practice for children from birth through age five.
Evidence of leading a multi-step improvement effort, using data to inform decisions, and monitoring completion of an action plan.
Ability to conduct objective observations, facilitate professional learning, provide constructive coaching, manage multiple deadlines, and use common digital productivity and data tools.
Ability to meet required background screening, travel, driving, and other job-related conditions consistent with applicable law and reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Multi-site early childhood leadership experience.
Director or assistant director experience.
Previous formal supervision of coaches or managers.
Experience with Creative Curriculum, Brain Connect, or comparable curriculum.
Experience with ERS, CLASS, state QRIS systems, and reflective or practice-based coaching.
Experience with dashboard design, data cleaning, coaching logs, project management, and evaluation of training transfer.
Experience across infant/toddler and preschool/pre-K settings, and school-age settings where relevant.

Responsibilities

Develop and coach Education Coaches and build their capability.
Partner with center and regional operations leaders.
Lead measurable improvements in early childhood learning experiences through data-informed problem solving, practice-based coaching, professional learning, and quality-improvement cycles.
Conduct center diagnostic quality-improvement leadership.
Support curriculum and teaching practices for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, prekindergarten students, and school-age children as assigned.
Measure, document, and communicate progress.
Lead professional learning and own assigned projects.
Build adults’ capacity to sustain strong daily teaching practices.
Conduct objective observations, facilitate professional learning, and provide constructive coaching.
Lead multi-step improvement efforts, use data to inform decisions, and monitor action-plan completion.
Manage multiple deadlines and use common digital productivity and data tools.
Partner cross-functionally and demonstrate effective leadership conduct.

Benefits

Free childcare.
Regular bonus potential.
Same-day pay available.
Unlimited growth opportunities.
Health, dental, vision, and other benefit choices, including AFLAC.
Affordable Blue Cross Blue Shield plans.
Company-paid life insurance.
401(k) retirement plan.
Employee wellness program.
Paid time off accruing from day one, with accrual increasing with tenure.
Seven paid holidays.
Monday–Friday schedule.
Employee discounts on major brands such as Verizon.
Paid birthday holiday.
Paid required professional development and trainings.
CDA program funding.
Support for the TEACH program, including up to 95% tuition funding for CDA, associate’s, bachelor’s, or master’s programs; eligible bonuses may increase funding to over 100%.
Car and phone allowances.