General Summary:
The Instructional Facilitator drives literacy and academic progress for Safer clients by delivering basic skills instruction, High School Equivalency (HSE) prep, and credentialing services using proven frameworks like the Safer Basic Skills Methodology.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Stakeholder Interface and Service
- Partner with academic and administrative staff to streamline student intake, enrollment, and database tracking, improving efficiency for Education Department students. Co-design clear class rules to improve student academic outcomes across grade, mastery, and NRS levels.
- Guide learners to solve real-world problems through current event analysis.
- Tailor instruction to diverse student needs and abilities to build core skills for the HSED credential.
- Partner with adjunct colleagues to tailor lessons for Career Exploration, IET, and bridge students on evaluations to accelerate student progress and achieve workforce credentials.
- Design and document successful GED and basic skills lesson plans and teaching techniques to add to the shared library resource for instructors to improve literacy instruction, and reduce preparation time.
- Collaborate with data analysts to streamline departmental assessments and improve student performance tracking.
- Collaborate in regular staff meetings to exchange critical information and update participant progress plans. Plan, instruct, and assess learning for individuals, small and large groups.
- Partner with management to champion a continuous professional development (CPD) culture, co-driving a mandatory 18-hour annual training program to build new skills and refresh core competencies.
- Create Digital presentations and visuals via Office 365
- Design daily or weekly lessons using digital tools
- Perform other duties as assigned
Stakeholder Outreach and Recruitment
- Assist in the intake and enrollment of students; maintain full course records of participants for purposes with student participation, and database collection.
Tracking, Document, and Reporting
- Observe and evaluate students’ work to determine progress and make suggestions to focus on literacy improvement.
- Drive evidence-based student progress by partnering with members of the education team to track and report key metrics such as attendance, performed lessons, and assessments.
- Track and submit student learning metrics such as attendance, performed lessons, and assessments to ensure students’ progress can be effectively measured for evidence-based progress.
- Partner with data staff to track student progress and reduce lag time recording performance goals.
- Enter information and leverage Salesforce database to build and deliver custom organizational reports
- Data tracking – Enter and monitor student data using computer systems
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Language, Math, and Science – Strong grasp of English grammar/composition, applied science (biology through physics, and computer), and applied math (arithmetic through statistics).
- Applied Proficiency – Practical experience using adult student-centered instruction across multiple subjects.
- Applied Proficiency – Practical experience using various learning/meeting platforms as instructional delivery tools (example: Canvas, Zoom, Google Classroom, Web-Ex).
- Applied Strategies – Co-build collaborative learning spaces focused on driving performance goals and peer learning.
- Enter information and leverage Salesforce database to build and deliver custom organizational reports
- Build and update digital spreadsheets for student records, milestones, and other educational data
- Hands-on experience and self-sufficiency with Microsoft productivity tools, including Outlook (for email), Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), and online collaboration tools (video conferencing, Zoom/Teams, messaging).
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors Degree in related discipline
- 2 years teaching basic skills/GED to youth and/or adults is a plus.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. Safer Foundation is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas, including H-1B, TN, E-3, or other employment-based visas.
Safer Foundation is a drug-free workplace
Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action/Minorities/Females/Veterans
www.saferfoundation.org
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