What are the responsibilities and job description for the Professional Development Consultant position at Frog Street?
Professional Development Consultant
Job Description
Frog Street Press is a leader in quality early education programming and professional development. One of our cornerstones is to foster the continual professional learning of early childhood educators. In our quest to deliver purposeful, appropriate professional learning, we are looking to add a Professional Development / Training Consultant to the team.
The primary job responsibilities of the Professional Development Consultant are to create and lead professional learning trainings and to provide support to customers and early childhood educators wishing to ascribe to high quality environments / world class standards.
The consulting assignments will be throughout the United States with potential to travel to other countries. Up to 75% travel on an annualized basis, is possible depending on the assignment workload. Consultant may travel to several locations in a week period. When not traveling on an assignment, the consultant may work from home.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Create, manage, and conduct trainings for customers who have purchased product .
- Develop and implement educational best practices and emerging content as it relates to training.
- Expand the professional development portfolio by developing new professional learning offerings.
- Work with sales team to build a PL pipeline and generate revenue through professional learning via :
Creating specialized sessions, you or others can facilitate
Research and develop webinar trainings, techniques, procedures, and usability.
QUALIFICATIONS :
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit for extended periods, potentially up to 6-8 hours. Please note that a full day of training lasts approximately 6 hours and includes activities such as setting up and tearing down for presentations. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop. The employee is occasionally required to lift and / or move up to 50 pounds.
About Frog Street
Frog Street ( ), a subsidiary of Excelligence Learning Corporation, is a leading provider of comprehensive early childhood education solutions to public schools, Head Start programs and early child care centers, with a focus on children from birth to age 5. Frog Street's curriculum programs are based on early brain research and provide intentional age-appropriate instruction that is aligned to both federal and state standards. The Company also develops engaging and interactive professional development programs, including product training, conferences, continuing education, and quality assessment tools to measure students' progress.
About Excelligence
Excelligence Learning Corporation ( ) is a leading developer, manufacturer, distributor and multi-channel retailer of over 20,000 innovative, high-quality and grade-appropriate educational products and teaching solutions, which are sold primarily to early childhood learning centers, elementary schools, PTAs and consumers. The company has three core divisions : Supplies (Discount School Supply and Really Good Stuff), Equipment (Children's Factory, Angeles, and Steffy Wood Products) and Services (Educational Products, Inc., Childcare Education Institute and Frog Street).
