Role Description As a Part-time Senior Manager, you will support a portfolio of academic, talent, teacher and leader development, and/or community engagement projects. You will contribute to state and regional strategy and help ensure individual projects are aligned to broader organizational priorities and goals for students. For this role, we are seeking team members with strong experience in education research, learning science, HQIM implementation, and Science content development. Successful candidates will be able to translate research and curriculum into clear adult learning materials, manage complex deliverables, navigate client and stakeholder dynamics with credibility, and strengthen work through high-stakes feedback and revision cycles. - Identify, review, and synthesize current research on effective instructional strategies in Science. - Locate credible, up-to-date research related to Science instruction, learning, and implementation of HQIM. - Distinguish between strong research, emerging evidence, and general best practices. - Connect research findings to instructional priorities, HQIM, and educator-facing practices. - Translate Science instructional research into clear, practical guidance for educators and adult learning materials. - Turn research findings into concrete guidance, examples, tools, and training content for a diverse group of stakeholders. - Explain the ‘why’ behind instructional strategies in ways that build educator understanding and buy-in. - Revise materials based on feedback while preserving research alignment and instructional clarity. - Manage implementation and influence strategy for a large, state-level agency, including but not limited to: - Contributing to team/project goals, engaging in innovation in alignment with goals. - Managing timelines, deliverables, internal checkpoints, and workstream coordination to ensure high-quality work is completed on time. - Tracking deliverable progress across content development, review, revision, approval, and implementation stages. - Identifying risks to timeline, quality, alignment, or stakeholder confidence early and escalate concerns with recommended next steps. - Maintaining strong systems for organizing work, tracking decisions, documenting feedback, and ensuring follow-through across team members. - Balancing speed, quality, and accuracy in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities and evolving client expectations. - Tracking progress towards contract goals and making strategic decisions regarding project management and support. - Contributing to the creation of high-quality, data-driven reports or other deliverables demonstrating the effect of the team’s approaches towards contract goals. - Develop, revise, and quality review materials while engaged in high-stakes feedback cycles. - Conduct quality reviews of instructional and adult learning materials for content accuracy, research alignment, HQIM alignment, coherence, clarity, and usability. - Identify gaps, inaccuracies, unclear explanations, or weak alignment and revise materials to strengthen credibility and instructional quality. - Review materials for clarity, accessibility, and usability for facilitators and participants across varied implementation contexts. - Interpret and incorporate client and internal feedback in ways that strengthen the substance of the work while preserving research and curriculum alignment. - Document decisions, feedback, risks, and next steps to ensure shared understanding and follow-through across the team. - Interpret stakeholder feedback thoughtfully, distinguishing between content concerns, alignment needs, preferences, and broader relationship dynamics, and respond with sound judgment. - Build client capacity, cultivate client relationships, and build and maintain credibility through strong content knowledge, careful preparation, clear communication and consistent follow-through. - Develop tools and resources in real time to respond to client needs. - Develop and cultivate client relationships that foster trust through authentic engagement and ensuring client satisfaction with our work. - Understand client priorities, hierarchy, decision-making structures, and stakeholder dynamics. - Prepare for and engage in client-facing interactions with awareness of context, sensitivities, and workstream implications. - Communicate clearly about content decisions, tradeoffs, risks, revisions, and next steps. - Respond to feedback and stakeholder needs with professionalism, judgment, and timely follow-through. Qualifications - Strong experience in education research, learning science, curriculum implementation, and/or instructional materials, with the ability to translate research into practical guidance for educators. - Content expertise in learning science and science. - Strong understanding of HQIM to support the development, refinement, and quality review of instructional training materials, tools, and adult learning supports. - Experience supporting content development within science with close attention to research, accuracy, coherence, and instructional relevance. - Knowledge of content and instruction, with at least three years PK-12 teaching experience, preferably in high-need schools or with high-need populations and a proven track record of raising student achievement. - Excellent oral and written communication skills. Requirements - Innovate and implement solutions to complex challenges. - Translate your expertise. - Know great teaching and learning when you see it. - Influence leaders to act. - Have a passion and understanding for education landscape and communities. - Build relationships. - Model cross-cultural agility. Benefits - Competitive hourly wage commensurate with experience in a similar position. - Compensation range for this role is $38.02 - $57.04 per hour. - Motivated team of dynamic colleagues. - Collegial atmosphere that values professional development and valuable feedback. - Chance to impact the direction of a growing, mission-driven company committed to the success of our nation’s children. - Reasonable accommodation for the interview process for individuals with disabilities.