Reports to: Associate Program Director + Staff Development
Location: IL location required (Hybrid in Chicagoland)
Status: Full Time, Exempt (IC2/B5)
Salary Range*: $75,000 - $85,000
Start Date: by January 2025
Facing History & Ourselves is a global education non-profit organization that challenges teachers and students to use lessons of history to stand up to bigotry and hate.
Facing History seeks an experienced educator to deliver Facing History professional learning across the US, specifically in Illinois. The Program Associate, Chicago will:
- Facilitate professional learning for educators, school and district leaders through in-person and online workshops and seminars.
- Recruit new schools and districts to implement Facing History and Ourselves’ school and district programs.
- Consult on program implementation in multiple contexts and regions.
- Cultivate, maintain, and document relationships and communication with educators, school and district leaders.
Occasional evening and weekend work may be required to assist with regional or national initiatives. Between 10 - 20% travel may be required.
Who you are: You share our passion for education, youth, and the community, with a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. You thrive in a team environment, bringing both strong collaboration skills and independent initiative. You are confident facilitating workshops and conversations that explore identity, racism, antisemitism and other challenging topics in a range of educational settings.
Minimum Requirements:
- BA/BS; MA preferred.
- 5 years of secondary classroom (grades 7-12) teaching experience required; experience with Facing History content and professional development strongly preferred.
- Minimum 3 years of experience leading professional development and/or adult coaching in educational settings.
- Demonstrates effective communication and facilitation skills.
- Familiarity with social-emotional learning, school culture and civic education.
- Experience with culturally responsive teaching, equity and justice initiatives required.
- Knowledge of a humanities based content area: either European or US history or ELA and/or literacy strategies.
- Experience with designing and facilitating technology-enabled in-person, hybrid and online professional learning experiences leveraging digital tools and platforms.
- Comfort with handling multiple projects simultaneously.
Benefits Summary: In addition to meaningful and rewarding work, Facing History provides an excellent and competitive compensation and benefits package including medical with a health reimbursement account, dental, vision, life & AD&D, long-term & short-term disability insurance, 403(b) retirement plan with a discretionary organizational contribution, generous paid time off, and a friendly hybrid work environment.
Facing History values a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
*In the interest of transparency, fairness, and equity Facing History is now listing public facing salary bands. These bands are benchmarked to external market factors and our own internal pay structure.
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