Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Carnegie Learning is seeking a part-time Content Specialist in Literacy to support their sales team. The role involves collaborating with Account Executives and Managers to provide knowledge and tools for successful sales opportunities, including delivering presentations and customer follow-up.
Responsibilities
- Incorporate classroom experience, best pedagogical practices, and knowledge of literacy instructional materials into all day to day activities for 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
- Collaborate as a strategic partner in a targeted region to increase literacy sales
- Support prospecting efforts in collaboration with local sales teams
- Present focused presentations of Carnegie Learning literacy 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), alter messaging based on competitors strengths and weaknesses
- Help Vice President to judge the effectiveness of sales activities, strategies, and tools
- Provide accurate and detailed information about content and educational trends that impact revenue
- Effectively collaborate with internal team members and stakeholders including Sales, Product, Professional Learning, and Marketing
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in literacy education
- 3+ years of teaching experience in literacy required. School administrative experience a plus
- Flexible schedule and availability to travel on short notice, especially during the school year
- Within an hour of a major airport
- Basic understanding of school and district infrastructure, including technology environments and management systems; keeps up with current trends
- A mindset for learning; ability to perform a wide variety of tasks and can change focus quickly as demands change; manage transitions effectively from task to task; adapt to varying customer needs
- Expertise with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Adobe & other design software, Google
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentational skills
- Previous experience with Carnegie Learning products is preferred
- Previous sales experience is preferred
Benefits
- Competitive Pay
- We know this kind of work takes time and flexibility, so we make sure it’s worth it. We offer a competitive and transparent pay structure that values your time — with variable rates for travel time, administrative work, and customer-facing engagements.
- 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 CL products for employees and their children
- A Place for Connection
- Quarterly Wellness Incentives
- Monthly employee activities + recognition program
- 9 Employee Resource Groups
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