Secondary Literacy Consultant

Job Description

Secondary Literacy Consultant

Division:
Academic Services

Location:
Membertou, Nova Scotia

Language:
English Required, Mi’kmaw would be an asset

Immediate Supervisor:
Director of Academic Services

July 2025

Client Service Results:

The Secondary Literacy Consultant is responsible for encouraging and promoting literacy best practices by mentoring and coaching education staff in effective literacy practices and approaches. The Secondary Literacy Consultant will help build capacity and provide access to culturally relevant and high-quality materials to institutions within our MK Family of schools. The Secondary literacy consultant will possess the skills and experience to work cooperatively and collaboratively with classroom teachers and members of school teams to support classroom instruction, monitor and track student growth & support students within a family of schools in their literacy development within our MK Family of schools and communities. 

The Secondary Literacy Consultant should possess many of the following skills and competencies:

Skills:

• Effective organizational and time management skills 


• Ability to write reports, correspondence, proposals, and procedure manuals


• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists


• Use of technology and the ability to integrate digital learning environments within the classroom


• Computer literate (including word processing, spreadsheets, internet, G-Suite, and Apple-based products)


• Ability to communicate effectively (oral, written, presentations)


• Strong interpersonal skills


• Understanding and application of good change management principles


• Familiarity with the MK family of schools. 


• Providing professional development, mentorship, and coaching  for teachers


• Implementing literacy programs


• Development with teachers of culturally relevant materials and links to the curriculum and member communities. 


• Current with 6-12 English Language Arts curriculum


• Strategies for developing and maintaining positive relationships built on trust, and collaboration to enhance planning, problem solving, risk taking, and decision making


• Strategies for supporting teachers to become self-monitoring practitioners and self-extending learners


• Authentic, balanced assessment strategies


• Effective instructional strategies based on current research and concepts of Etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing 


• Knowledge of how students learn to read and write across all subjects


• Use of technology and the ability to integrate digital learning environments within the classroom

Summary of Duties:

Oversight of literacy programs:

• Succeeding in Reading
  
  
  
  • Promotion of community-based literacy projects
  
  
  • Scheduling monthly meetings with educators
  
  
  • Providing professional development opportunities both in person and hybrid model 
  
  
  • Managing program budget
  
  
  
  

Development and facilitation of literacy-related professional development offerings for educators by:

• Reviewing literacy assessment results


• Determining development requirements/opportunities


• Preparing, coordinating, and facilitating professional development sessions


• Providing relevant materials to schools


• Supporting mentorship and coaching  in the MK schools

Development of literacy assessment tools by:

• Reviewing school success goals with member communities and the MK team


• Working collaboratively to develop tools to assess literacy rates


• Reviewing assessment results


• Support the usage of literacy data to inform instruction


• Developing improvement strategies and plans based on assessment results with schools/educators


• Providing school/educator-specific support (mentorship) through the implementation of improvement plans


• strategies to interpret and respond to the changing contexts they experience from school to school, from teacher to teacher, and from one time to another


• Awareness of and participation in a range of professional learning opportunities


• Strategies for monitoring, assessing, evaluating, and reporting on the progress and success of coaching


• Use of data to improve instruction and student achievement

Performing other duties as assigned, including the following:

• Participate as the organization’s representative on all Department of Education and Early Childhood Development committees related to literacy


• Sourcing and purchasing literacy materials at affordable costs, and coordinating delivery to schools


• Development of an operational plan to achieve program-specific objectives


• Monthly reporting on the progress of literacy goals

Education/Experience:

• Master's Degree in Education, or equivalent, specializing in Literacy


• 5 years of teaching experience

Knowledge:

• Mi’kmaw Education Act


• First Nations communities


• Government relations/organizations


• First Nations education trends and developments


• Mi’kmaw culture and traditions


• Provincial curriculum (literacy, numeracy, etc.)


• Basic understanding of band-operated schools


• Data analysis techniques and the ability to identify trends


• Assessment tools, as they relate to education