Job Details

Position Type:
Student Support Services

Date Posted:
3/4/2026

Location:
SEEC - Fargo

Date Available:
08/01/2026

Closing Date:
Until Filled

District:
South East Education Cooperative
Job Title: Literacy Coaching Specialist

Accountable to: Director of Literacy Services

Department: Literacy

FLSA Status: Multiple positionsavailable, full-time 1 FTE and part-time .5FTE

Salary: $50,000+ commensurate with years of experience and graduate credit hours

Employees under their Direct Supervision: See most current organizational chart for direct and indirect reports under thisleader.

Standard Office Hours: Ten-month, 195-day, position typically working Monday-Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm and other times as needed to reach agency goals or job duties.

Decision Making Authority:Responsible for the best interests of the South East Education Cooperative (SEEC) given what has been budgeted and carefully utilizes funding to achieve expected goals. Approval required from Director of Literacy Services (or assigned designee) on specific matters as outlined in policies and procedures.

Position Overview:

This position is responsible for contributing to the development and execution of the literacy team's professional development and instructional support system for educators across the region and occasionally, in some cases, supporting programs and partner REAs across the state. The Literacy Specialist will join a highly collaborative team of educational coaches and specialists - both internally within the SEEC and externally with partners across the area. The successful Literacy Specialist is committed to educational equity, uses best-practice research in designing adult learning activities and applies instructional coaching. This person understands evidence-based educational practices, is highly motivated and assures that every child in our schools has access to relevant and rigorous educational opportunities and brings a growth mindset to the work of pedagogical and systems improvement. The candidate is responsible for representing the South East Education Cooperative in a positive way to staff and member schools and supporting the overall goals, objectives, and strategies of the SEEC. The Literacy Specialist will evaluate programs and use continuous improvement to ensure training opportunities that feed our member schools forward with programming that impacts student outcomes. This candidate will also be involved in supporting implementation and ensuring fidelity to the Reading Corps model and supporting schools in utilizing a data-based decision-making model to ensure students are making progress.

Position Accountabilities, Responsibilities and Essential Functions: A critical part of every position is achieving the goals set for the position while delivering high levels of satisfaction to internal and external stakeholders. This is realized by building positive internal individual and team relationships, positive relationships with external partners and exhibiting behaviors that contribute to the success of short and long-term goals of the agency. These behaviors include a focus on timely completion and high quality of work (with or without supervision) while following all legal, compliance, departmental, documentation, safety, timelines, program and other standards per company policies and procedures.

Position requires close collaboration with Director of Literacy Services, stakeholders, other Regional Education Associations, SEEC Employees, in addition to Community and Funding Agencies.

Performance is equally a function of goal attainment; timely and accurate completion of assignments; building positive internal and external relationships; and planning, communicating and coordinating work to avoid last minute confusion and adherence to legal/compliance guidelines and policies/procedures.

Significant Job Duties:

1. 70% Program Management
   • Plan, develop and/or implement literacy programs, workshops and training for educators and support staff that is structured for learning, reflection and practice of new methods and content.
   • Collaborate with other organization(s) whose purpose and goals align with the program; collaboration and coordination with local, state and regional organizations is essential.
   • Ability to review and translate research in the program areas into effective practices through collaboration, demonstration, coaching and feedback to teachers.
   • Assist and provide input in review(s) and assessment(s) of district curricular needs and expectations involving program area.
   • Provide leadership and support to improve student learning by designing curricular strategies that infuse content area standards with best teaching practices.
   • Provide leadership and consultative services to local districts on designing, planning, implementing and evaluating strategies and projects.
   • Provide continuous monitoring and feedback to individual SEEC member teachers and administrators through direct consultation, meetings, professional learning communities and instructional improvement sessions.
   • Provide direct coaching to tutors, Internal Coaches, and sites in the SEEC to ensure successful implementation of the Reading Corps model and student progress in reading.
   • Communicate and coordinate benchmark assessments; perform assessment reliability checks prior to data collection for reliability and verify data is being recorded accurately.
   • Observe each tutor using an integrity checklist for interventions and assessment. Provide feedback and review student progress; frequency of visits is a minimum of once per month. Additional visits are dependent on the site's needs and tenure of coach.
   • Review each student graph for progress and determine the need for intervention changes and/or exiting students from Reading Corps services.
   • Monitor and support the accuracy of student data in the Reading Corps online data management system.
   • Communicate directly with each participating school and serve as the main point of contact related to the literacy implementation of the Reading Corps model that includes, but not limited to, intervention implementation, student assessment and data entry.
   • In conjunction with Director of Literacy, review past program trends, data and funding to provide input and/or write for future grant application(s) following agency procedures and policies.
   • Communicate the value, results and effectiveness of services provided to enhance continuous improvement.
   • Develop, implement and document specific programs and practices designed to build and sustain engaged clients and other stakeholders; these are efforts that go beyond the interactions required for development and delivery of professional development programs.
2. 10% Program Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
   • Collaborate with Data Support Coordinator, collect and analyze training, professional development and program impact data.
   • Manage program data; assist individual schools in gathering evaluation data; and ensure accurate and meaningful data is being collected, reported and analyzed.
   • Generate and publish required reports, metrics, documents, forecasts and special reports for full transparency.
3. 10% Programmatic Financial Management
   • For each fiscal year, manage assigned program operations so that actual expenses fall within budget. Contributes to agency overall operations remaining within budget.
   • Proper and ethical management of assigned grant funding including expenditure approvals to established limit, budgeting and grant reporting to meet established expectations/metrics.
   • Responsible for generating and/or coordinating with the Business Services department for all required reports, documents, budgets, forecasts and special reports.
4. 5% Sustain Long-Term Viability and Growth
   • In conjunction with the Director of Literacy Services, review the current programs and identify potential funding opportunities that align to the agency's strategic goals.
   • Participate in the strategic planning and implementation for the agency by attending meetings and planning sessions.
5. 5% Professional Development
   • Build and extend own knowledge through a variety of professional development activities including but not limited to webinars, training classes, special certifications and by engaging in other professional development activities.

• Interaction level with others: Requires high levels of interaction with others internal and external to the agency.
• Position requires travel within the SEEC service area, North Dakota and beyond to fulfill job goals. If not traveling, work location is in Fargo at the SEEC office.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining professional demeanor.
• Alternative schedules and extended days are frequent.
• Sit/Stand/Walk/Stoop: Up to 8-10 hours a day for each activity individually or combined.
• Use of Phone/Computer/Software/Office Equipment: Up to 8-10 hours a day for each activity individually or combined.
• Climb/Pull/Lift: Up to 8-10 hours a day for each activity individually or combined. Move and lift up to 25 pounds.
• Temperature ranges for work environment: Mostly a typical office environment with temperatures of 60-85 F but can experience temperatures from -40 F to 110 F when performing tasks outside of office.
• Noise: Noise levels reflect typical office environment and may require hearing protection when using certain equipment or entering certain areas.
• Hazardous Conditions or Chemicals Exposure: Exposure to small quantities of hazardous chemicals found in office supplies such as toner, glues, etc.

• Education: B.S., B.A. in Education or closely related field and a current ND Teacher certificate. Master's degree preferred along with the current ND Teaching certificate.
• Experience: Three to five years of experience leading, developing, delivering professional development services to a variety of school personnel, students and parents (K-12); accountability for short and long-range goals; financial management; human resources policies and procedures; legal and compliance issues. Preferred knowledge and experience with Science of Reading training and implementation at the school building or district level. LETRS completion preferred. Experience coaching or mentoring teachers for the purpose of improving student learning and providing feedback in a non-evaluative manner. This includes modeling best practices for the purpose of helping teachers quickly implement best practices in their own instruction.
• The skills and capacities to collaboratively plan and deliver outstanding professional learning.
• Knowledge of how K-12 schools and early learning environments are currently structured.
• A strong desire to work closely on a team and to collaborate with educators across the region.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate groups in meetings and workshop settings.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Requires excellent customer service and interpersonal communication skills. Able to effectively collaborate with diverse groups and develop high performing teams; yet smoothly manage individual and group conflicts. Handles last minute pressure and keeps calm when faced with competing demands and priorities. Must possess excellent written, verbal and oral presentation skills. Ability to express complex ideas with clarity and precision both orally and in writing.
• Strong technical skills including the use of presentation software, word processing and the ability to learn to use registration software to communicate with participants as needed.
• Action oriented, entrepreneurial, and innovative approach to service delivery.
• Attention to Detail/Organization and Short/Long-Range Planning: Excellent skills required.
• Confidentiality: Requires proper protection, handling, storage and disposal of confidential and personally identifiable information (PII).
• Math Skills: Adept at addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, fractions and basic descriptive statistics.
• Financial Management and Analysis: Able to develop, track, analyze and explain budgets, expenses and variances.
• Driver's License: Required.
• Use of software and office equipment: Ability to use smart phones and tablets, cloud-based and internet apps, standard office equipment (copier, fax, etc.), computers, Office 365, other specialized software and the internet. Working knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to create and alter documents, forms, presentations and graphs. Able to retrieve/store documents on computer (desktop/laptop), shared site or on cloud-based service.

• Travel: Moderate travel; primarily within North Dakota.
• Clothing: Professional attire that creates a positive impression on staff, stakeholders, Board Members and funding or partner organizations.
• Background Check: Pass a background check.