Senior Coordinator, Education

Sesame Workshop•New York, NY

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Coordinator, Education supports the development, review, coordination, and publication of high-quality educational content aligned with Sesame Workshop’s mission. The role is part of the Global Education Department and works with internal teams, advisors, consultants, and external reviewers to ensure content is accurate, culturally relevant, clear, and educationally effective. It supports content across the department’s program portfolio, including emergency preparedness, the autism initiative, co-design work, family engagement resources, and child-facing digital experiences. The position coordinates educational materials from concept through publication and contributes to editorial quality, digital publishing, and content lifecycle practices. It helps maintain editorial parameters, templates, review workflows, and documentation, and supports recurring reviews of existing content assets to inform decisions about relevance, reach, and usability. The Senior Coordinator collaborates across departments to support content implementation, digital experiences, site updates, and consistent communication throughout content development and publishing.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Education, Communications, English, Instructional Design, or a related field; or 1–2+ years of relevant experience in educational content development, editorial operations, content strategy, or a related area.
Strong writing and editing skills, including the ability to craft clear, engaging, developmentally appropriate content.
Experience with digital publishing, such as content management systems and formatting content for web and digital distribution.
Ability to line edit, copyedit, and proofread educational materials attentively and follow style guides.
Experience using content management and digital publishing platforms, design and prototyping tools, and AI-assisted writing, research, and search tools.
Understanding of how generative engines surface and summarize content.
Strong organizational and project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work independently.
Experience with collaborative documents, spreadsheets, project-tracking tools, and basic analytics and reporting dashboards.
Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience in educational media, curriculum development, nonprofit, or social impact settings.
Familiarity with child development, family engagement, or educational best practices.
Exposure to content-review or audit methods, such as content audits, analytics review, or usability feedback.
Exposure to user-centered design principles or design tools used in educational technology, such as prototyping tools or learning management systems.
Published consumer-facing work for children, parents, or providers.
Ability to learn quickly and apply new content areas, research, or tools.

Responsibilities

Coordinate educational content projects from concept through final product, ensuring work progresses on time and within scope.
Assist in creating educational materials, including facilitator guides, family handouts, digital articles, and other resources.
Line edit, copyedit, and proofread materials for clarity, consistency, style, tone, accuracy, learning goals, and brand standards.
Maintain and expand digital publishing of educational content, formatting and structuring materials for appropriate platforms and audiences.
Support cross-departmental implementation of content in digital experiences and site updates, contributing to programming, design input, and usability.
Conduct fact-checking to improve content accuracy and relevance.
Support content quality assurance, including layout reviews and final checks before delivery or publication.
Help track and archive educational messages and goals for existing and new resources.
Support recurring reviews of content assets by gathering input and summarizing findings on relevance, reach, and usability.
Help maintain editorial guidelines, templates, and workflow documentation and improve content-development and digital-publishing processes.
Prepare and distribute meeting notes, editorial tracking documents, and project updates for internal teams and external partners.
Coordinate content workflows with Education, Impact Programs, Marketing, Production, and Research and Insights teams.
Facilitate review cycles with internal stakeholders and external reviewers, managing feedback and revisions.
Build working relationships across departments and serve as a liaison for clear updates, documentation, and editorial tracking.
Contribute to a collaborative environment supporting high-quality, mission-aligned educational content.
Perform other related duties as needed to support team and organizational priorities.