Education Northwest

Consultant

• Lead and manage a portfolio of literacy-focused projects, including scoping, budgeting, staffing, risk management, financial monitoring, quality assurance, delivery, and closeout.
• Provide technical assistance and capacity-building support to schools, districts, state education agencies, and partners to strengthen coherent literacy systems, including curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional learning, and implementation support.
• Guide teams in developing and implementing evidence-based literacy interventions and improvement strategies grounded in reading, writing, language, adolescent literacy, and supports for multilingual learners.
• Collaborate with clients and partners to assess needs, analyze data and evidence, develop theories of action and improvement plans, and monitor implementation, outcomes, and sustainability.
• Design and deliver professional learning, coaching, consultation, communities of practice, convenings, and other learning experiences for educators and education leaders.
• Oversee reports, presentations, tools, professional learning materials, and other client-facing products to ensure they are accurate, actionable, equitable, and responsive to client needs.
• Build relationships with education leaders, policymakers, funders, researchers, preparation programs, and community organizations; represent Education Northwest through presentations, publications, and externally facing products.
• Lead and contribute to business development, including opportunity pipelines, strategic partnerships, proposals, grant writing, client presentations, networking, and new products or services that address emerging literacy needs.
• Mentor project teams and collaborate across multifunctional teams to strengthen project management, client engagement, quality, equity-centered practice, feedback, and coordinated delivery of consulting services.

Principal Consultant – Equity & Systems Improvement for Literacy