Content Specialist (Part-Time), Math, Literacy, or World Languages

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Use classroom experience, pedagogical practices, and knowledge materials to support content area instruction with colleagues, teachers, and leaders.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of Carnegie Learning products and solutions, and their placement in the market.
• Stay informed of current industry trends; actively identify opportunities for learning; learn and apply new concepts to improve performance; share information with others.
• Support Carnegie Learning sales teams by collaborating as a strategic partner in targeted regions to increase sales.
• Support prospecting efforts in collaboration with local sales teams.
• Present focused presentations of Carnegie Learning products to state and local review committees for adoptions and pilots.
• Travel to adoption presentations to help close business.
• Use consultative selling and active listening skills to win business opportunities and align product offerings with customer needs.
• Provide exemplary customer service by building relationships, investigating problems, developing solutions, and making recommendations to management and editorial teams.
• Support sales and customer satisfaction by curating materials, presentations, handouts, standards correlations, etc.
• Collaborate with the product team on special and ongoing projects.
• Participate in pre-work and market study of new instructional solutions as needed.
• Remain knowledgeable of competition in the content area(s), and alter messaging based on competitors' strengths and weaknesses.
• Help the Vice President judge the effectiveness of sales activities, strategies, and tools.
• Provide accurate and detailed information about content and educational trends that impact revenue.
• Collaborate effectively with internal teams including Sales, Product, Professional Learning, and Marketing.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in education content area.
• 3+ years of education experience in the content area.
• Flexible schedule and availability to travel on short notice, especially between January and May.
• Basic understanding of school and district infrastructure, including technology environments and management systems.
• Expertise with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Adobe & other design software, Google Classroom.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentational skills.
• Strong classroom experience and pedagogical knowledge.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing demands and manage transitions effectively.
• Understanding of current industry trends and educational content.
• Previous experience with Carnegie Learning products and sales experience are preferred.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience with Carnegie Learning products.
• Previous sales experience.
• School administrative experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in education content area.
• 3+ years of education experience in the content area.

Benefits & Perks

• Fostering Joy flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy.
• Empowering Parenthood reduced working hours for soon-to-be and new parents.
• Free access to Carnegie Learning products for employees and their children.
• Quarterly Wellness Incentives.
• Monthly employee activities and recognition programs.
• Participation in 9 Employee Resource Groups.