Education Consultant 3 TLLIT

**This position is located in Shreveport LA**

**This is a field-based position that requires traveling**

Office of Teaching & Learning - K-12 Literacy

Job Focus Area

• Previous instructional or leadership coaching experience
• Experience in middle and high school literacy
• Strong oral and written communication skills as well as effective organizational skills maximizing the use of technology and strong project management and customer service skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to engage in the observation and review implementation to refine strategy and plan through an ongoing improvement cycle
• Experience in collaborating with multiple stakeholders to deliver a common and consistent message to the field in support of Louisianas academic strategy

Seven years of experience in education teaching or administrative services; OR

Six years of full-time work experience plus four years of experience in education teaching or administrative services; OR

A bachelors degree plus four years of experience in education teaching or administrative services; OR

An advanced degree plus three years of experience in education teaching or administrative services.

The official job specifications for this role as defined by the State Civil Service can be found here.

Job Duties:
As an Education Consultant 3 you will help to support literacy instruction and professional learning experiences for educators and students across the this role you will:

• Provide job-embedded field support to assigned school systems and school leaders on effective literacy instruction and support local leaders in implementing literacy initiatives.
• Develop resources and tools to support instructional leaders and improve literacy outcomes in Birth -12 classrooms.
• Develop and deliver professional learning statewide literacy initiatives.
• Collaborate with system leaders school leaders and literacy coaches to develop a system- or school-wide focused literacy plan.
• Ensure that curriculum instruction and assessments are monitored and adjusted systematically at both the school and system levels in response to data from multiple sources such as student work samples student cognitive data teacher observation data and individual growth and coaching plans for teachers and students.
• Develop and conduct interactive sessions with the field to ensure effective implementation of initiatives and programs with administrators leaders principals and teachers.
• Assist in the implementation of specific projects to support the goals established by the Division of Literacy which may include strategic planning grants contracts and administration.

No Civil Service test scoreis required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy click on the Apply link above and complete an electronic application which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Information to support your eligibility for this job title must be included in the application (i.e. relevant detailed experience/education).Resumes will notbe accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Louisiana Department of Education Human Resources

PO Box 94064

Baton Rouge LA 70804