Job Description
Position Vacancy – Early Childhood Coach & Facilitator
Bank Street College of Education
610 West 112th Street, New York, NY 10025
To: The College Community
From: Office of Human Resources
Date: October 2026
Subject: Position Vacancy – Early Childhood Coach & Facilitator to support the Early Childhood portfolio at Bank Street Education Center (the Ed Center)
Summary Position: Bank Street Education Center (the Ed Center), a division within Bank Street College of Education (the College) created to support the College’s work with school districts, is currently seeking a Coach & Facilitator to support project implementation in the Early Childhood portfolio, which focuses on the birth-to-5 experience.
Key relationships: The Early Childhood Coach & Facilitator will report directly to the Project Director leading the project team and will work closely with the Executive Director, members of the broader Ed Center team, and partner organizations.
Responsibilities: In collaboration with their supervisor and with support from the portfolio team, the Early Childhood Coach & Facilitator will:
Coaching Implementation and Facilitation
- Create a coaching plan for assigned sites focusing on child development, culturally responsive and sustaining practices, meaningful instructional practices;
- Provide direct in-person coaching to individual teachers, teacher teams and leaders supporting family engagement, and adult learning principles;
- Maintain clear and consistent communication with individual teachers, teacher teams, school-based leaders, and Ed Center staff to ensure timely delivery and expectations of coaching;
- Engage in collaborative work with teacher teams and encourage expanded learning by allowing other teachers to observe/participate in coaching;
- Facilitate continuous reflection practices to analyze learning experiences and relevant data to identify inequitable practices in schools to improve pedagogical practices;
- Create and implement coaching resources, tools, and materials aligned with the Bank Street and Ed Center approach and coaching model;
- Develop and facilitate professional learning aligned to district and partnership goals;
- Co-facilitate adult professional learning sessions.
Project Implementation and Team Collaboration
- Work with the project team to identify coaching goals, logs, and tools in order to measure the impact of coaching work across the lifespan of the project;
- Complete coaching logs and attendance records following school visits and provide coaching updates to the team in weekly meetings/check-in structures;
- Reflect on coaching experiences with Ed Center staff members to support the continued strengthening of the Ed Center coaching model;
- Partner with project leads and project managers to monitor the progress of coaching and facilitation;
- Partner with the project teams to ensure the successful implementation of all aspects of the project; and
- Perform related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Skills & Knowledge:
- Expertise in progressive constructivist approaches and adult learning principles
- Background in curriculum, instruction, professional development, and assessment in early childhood teaching and learning for birth to 5
- Strong communication skills (email, writing, in-person)
- Strong facilitator of adult learning
- Comfort in Google Suite (e.g., Docs, Sheets, Slides, forms); Qualtrics or other data-capturing tool
- Flexibility in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment of quickly changing priorities and tight deadlines
- Ability to work occasional weekends, as some program sessions are held on Saturdays
Experiences:
- Working in early childhood settings such as: community-based organizations, family childcare centers, and public school settings
- Minimum of 3-5 years of coaching and/or school leadership and/or district leadership experience
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop teachers, teacher teams, and leaders
- Experience designing and facilitating professional learning sessions for teacher teams and leaders
- Experience working with diverse and historically marginalized students
- Master’s degree in education, school leadership, or related field
Mindsets:
- An intersectional, anti-racist lens and strengths-based approach to racial equity and identity work and team collaboration
- A culturally responsive perspective to child and adult development and learning
- A reflective learner’s stance
Salary Range: $85,000 - $100,000
Application information:
Tracy Fray-Oliver
Vice President, Bank Street Education Center
Bank Street College
610 West 112th Street
New York, NY 10025
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At Bank Street’s Graduate School of Education, students are trained in a model that combines the study of human development, learning theory, and sustained clinical placement to promote significant development as a teacher prior to graduation. Our children’s programs—Bank Street School for Children, Family Center, Bank Street Head Start, and Liberty LEADS—foster children’s development in the broadest sense by providing diverse opportunities for social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth. The Bank Street Education Center disrupts inequity through system-level change to help design better educational experiences for both children and adults. The College further supports and influences positive outcomes for children every day through professional development programs, research projects, and other key efforts engaging educators, intermediary organizations, and government officials at the district, state, and federal levels.
