Teaching and Learning Strategist Chemistry

The Teaching and Learning Strategist (Chemistry) works within the Discipline Strategy Teams to bring subject matter and instructional expertise to shape the pedagogical solutions envisioned by each discipline team. This Strategist is customerdriven and contextualizes the experience of our digital users of Achieve and other learning platforms utilized in higher education curriculum. The Teaching and Learning Strategist works externally with instructors and users develops deep understanding of the teaching and learning strategies employed by instructors and students in their disciplines and works crossfunctionally with product development sales marketing pedagogical design learning resource teams and technology. The Teaching and Learning Strategist utilizes their domain knowledge and collaborative skills to help define learning problems to solve. The Strategists solutions are informed by working in consultation with instructors to deliver pedagogically created courses that are instructor course or school specific. The Teaching and Learning Strategist provides a feedback loop of information and works towards both iterative improvements as well as thinking bigger and broadly towards innovation that is compelling and differentiating. Finally by strategically consulting with program management this role is key in helping grow digital sales and activations in consultation with crossfunctional partners.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they can perform every job description task. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds including women and people of color to apply for this role. Were eager to meet people that believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways not just candidates who check all the boxes. We believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and we recognize that unique perspectives and experiences contribute to the strength of our team. If you are interested in applying we encourage you to think broadly about your background and skill set for the role. We value your potential and we are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive and contribute their best.

Major responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Development and research
  • Review existing products to evaluate their pedagogical use alignment with instructor and student teaching and learning behaviors and ensure they are up to date and continue to meet quality standards.
  • Investigate our competitors media and pedagogical offerings and make suggestions/recommendations based on information gathered.
  • Meet with discipline strategy pedagogical design LSI and product colleagues to discuss new ventures.
  • Work closely with Program Management to help shape and form current revision and/or iterative update strategy (including participating in test & learns).
  • Work with pedagogical design group to create monitoring and evaluation plans on discipline specific resource and implement inclusive pedagogy and best practices.
  • Work with Marketing to develop the product marketing message around the pedagogical best practices for the discipline.
• Take on new initiatives aim to tackle the biggest common teaching challenges and do discovery work towards solving them in a distinctively unique and compelling way so that our platforms have a differentiating advantage vs our competitors.
• Collaborate closely with program management on key targets for current year sales campaign so we can work to grow the business.
• Develop effective tracking based on Salesforce data as well as known key competitive adoptions.
• Brainstorm create and implement innovative strategies with both internal and external customers to help support sales and marketing efforts.
• Contribute to the pedagogical design of the disciplines assessment story.
• Validate author/contributors formulate guidelines and training resources and provide feedback on the work of assessment and resource authors (including contractors) to maintain quality standards working closely with the Learning Resource Group.
• Provide support to customers by helping build courses for VIP instructors prior to first day of class each term.
• In addition help with presales efforts including syllabus matchups presentations of both print and media (either inperson or virtual); respond to questions via email phone chat and Slack and help troubleshoot during and after implementation.
• Provide key findings both positive and negative in a constructive method and communicate findings cross collaboratively with Content Product Technology LSI Sales and Marketing.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications:

• Master of Science or PhD in Chemistry or related field.
• 5 years experience teaching Chemistry at collegiate level or in educational publishing (college level a plus) or related; understanding of the business its processes market and trends.
• Demonstrated ability in planning implementing monitoring and meeting deadlines for multiple highly complex projects simultaneously. Experience with successful scheduling resource allocation and quality assurance.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize information from a diverse array of sources in order to understand issues identify opportunities anticipate outcomes and support sound decision making.
• Must demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills. Able to listen to and communicate clearly and strategically with diverse audiences promoting dialogue and building consensus to achieve objectives.
• Experience working collaboratively with a diverse team. Proactively assists and seeks input from others to achieve organizational goals.
• Track record of generating viable new approaches and solutions to problems or challenges in an increasingly digital learning environment.
• Experience embracing an environment that encourages creative initiatives new ways of thinking and innovation.
• Track record of being highly focused and productive with a cando attitude and team spirit. Experience embracing change with a willingness to continue to learn new technology systems and processes and new ways of working.
• Experience working in a conscientious consistent and thorough manner; following guidelines and procedures; identifying relevant details verifying accuracy of work results and coaching others on methods and tools to ensure accuracy.
• Experience supporting others to develop and learn recognizing their achievements and building an organizational culture where knowledge and growth are valued and rewarded.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with instructional or pedagogical design.
• Experience in customer outreach or customer service.

Salary Range: $80000 $90000/year

Exemption Status: Exempt

Physical Requirements:

Position requires concentrated screen time for long periods as well as multitasking; may involve working in a noisy/busy openoffice environment. Must be able to work over 40 hours a week occasionally. Must be able to travel 20% of the time for occasional afterhours meetings/dinners and out of town 46 times per year sometimes over a weekend.

Candidates located in or near the Austin Texas areas are preferred. 

The position is eligible for remote employment excluding the following locations: Alaska Arkansas Hawaii Mississippi Nevada South Dakota West Virginia Wyoming.

Additional Information :

Benefits 

Regular fulltime and qualifying parttime employees and their dependents are eligible for Macmillan benefits effective on the employees date of hire. Macmillan also offers health benefits coverage to qualifying samesex and oppositesex domestic partners (may require additional documentation) of active employees. 

• Competitive pay and bonus plan
• Generous Health Benefits (Medical Dental Vision)
• Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity 
• Generous paid time off sick time floating holidays and paid holidays (Spring Reset Day Juneteenth Indigenous Peoples Day Election Day and more!)
• Employee Assistance Program Education Assistance Program
• 100% employerpaid life and AD&D insurance
• And much more!

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences including race ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity/expression physical ability neurodiversity age veteran family and economic status and background geographical background and status and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints backgrounds and identities of the world in their staffs and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. You can read more about our Diversity Equity & Inclusion initiatives here.

The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group LLC d/b/a Macmillan Learning. Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group LLC has developed an affirmative action program in compliance with the NY Department of Educations guidance.  Portions of the affirmative action program are available for review by applicants and employees by contacting Human Resources at Macmillan Learning.