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Professional Learning Specialist jobs are open across K-12 districts, higher education, corporate learning and development, and nonprofit organizations, from entry-level instructional support to senior curriculum design and adult learning leadership, with specializations in coaching, e-learning, and professional development facilitation. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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Professional Learning Specialist
Part Time, Year Round Availability
What We Seek
Our Professional Learning team is looking for highly motivated current or former mathematics teachers, instructional coaches or leaders to join our team in a part-time year-round capacity. As the PL Specialist - Mathematics you will facilitate professional learning for K-12 educators utilizing Carnegie Learning mathematics resources on an as-needed basis year-round. A Carnegie Learning PL Specialist is a Carnegie Learning product ambassador, promotes implementation fidelity, and increases teacher effectiveness in each of the schools/districts they support.
As a member of the Professional Learning team, the PL Specialist, Mathematics reports to the Senior Manager of School Partnerships in their primary region and works collaboratively with many of our teams, including the internal Professional Learning Team, Regional Directors of Professional Learning, and Managers of School Partnerships to support professional learning objectives. PL Specialists may also support additional teams, including PL Design, Product, Sales, and Tutoring Services on content, design and PL support.
PL Specialists must successfully complete a suite of certification requirements, as prescribed by Carnegie Learning experts, including shadowing and co-facilitating professional learning activities with our experts. This position is part-time, year round and is recruiting throughout the calendar year; applicants will be contacted when the customer demand arises.
What Your Day Will Look Like
Delivering High-Quality Professional Learning
- Facilitating engaging professional learning workshops centered on Carnegie Learning products, best practices in teaching, and content expertise.
- Facilitating intentional adult learning experiences anchored in clear learning intentions, active participant thinking, and explicit connections to classroom practice.
- Preserving time for reflection, discourse, and application to ensure learning transfers meaningfully into classroom implementation.
- Refining workshops and learning experiences, when appropriate, to meet the unique needs and contexts of our partners.
- Delivering intentional and impactful, job-embedded professional learning to teachers and campus leadership (formal coaching cycles, collaborative lesson cycles, lesson internalization support, collaborative planning (PLC) facilitation, etc.).
- Facilitating reflective, evidence-based coaching cycles that surface teacher thinking, anchor conversations in classroom artifacts and student evidence, and build clear continuity from visit to visit.
- Cultivating teacher ownership of instructional goals and next steps by creating space for reflection, agency, and accountability over time.
- Upholding Carnegie Learning’s core commitments in every interaction—approaching educators with belief in their potential, honoring their voices and expertise, empowering their ownership of implementation, and inspiring progress and purpose in their growth.
- Leveraging data to drive teacher growth, inform ongoing support, and track partnership progress.
Operations & Documentation
- Following the Professional Learning process in all aspects of delivery: planning, confirming, communicating, executing, and following up.
- Ensuring timely completion of all documentation, including digital sign-ins, workshop feedback, coaching and support logs, courtesy emails, coaching feedback forms, and other deliverables.
- Maintaining and sharing accurate and up-to-date records regarding professional learning deliverables, including forecasting deliverables and managing your calendar.
- Using logs, feedback forms, and follow-up communication as strategic tools to strengthen continuity of coaching, clarify next steps, and build trust with educators and partners.
Other Fun Work
- Develop correlations, custom curriculum, rubrics and/or other documents to support specific PL partner needs.
- Support the sales team in pre- and post-sales environments including RFP/proposal design, pre-sales discussions, formal presentations, and supporting pilot opportunities.
- Provide Tutoring Services to CL customers as desired/available.
- PL Specialists will have varied work opportunities based on skills and experience. These opportunities are evolving continuously as the business grows.
- Performing other duties as assigned or apparent.
Exuding Our Team Core Values
- PASSION: Exuding a positive, contagious energy around the work we do.
- CURIOSITY: Seeking out new information and experiences, questioning the status quo, exploring possibilities.
- FLEXIBILITY: Quickly and calmly responding to changing circumstances.
- AGENCY: Appropriately taking initiative in your work and professional growth.
- PARTNERSHIP: Developing and effectively using collaborative relationships (internally and externally) to drive your work.
- INTEGRITY: Consistently demonstrating our core values through your work.
What You Can Expect
Primary Job Function
Approx. % of Time
Delivering High Quality Professional Learning
80%
Operations & Documentation
15%
Other Fun Work
5%
TRAVEL COMMITMENT NOTE
This job requires travel when delivering onsite professional learning. PL Specialists have the opportunity to accept or decline opportunities based on their individual schedules and plans.
What Should Be In Your Bookbag
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education (specific to your content vertical).
- 3+ years mathematics teaching experience.
- Residing in one of the following states within the territory: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia.
- Flexible schedule and availability during the summer and school year.
- Prior experience with Carnegie Learning resources (preferred).
- Experience mentoring/coaching teachers (preferred).
- Experience facilitating professional learning workshops (preferred).
- Cognitive Coaching (or equivalent) certification (preferred).
- Exemplifies Carnegie Learning’s core values to the highest level.
- Exceptional time management skills, including calendar management, goal setting, and efficiency in task prioritization.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive attitude.
- Solution-minded, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement of efficiency, communication, and customer experience.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
What Gives Us Purpose
Others teach what; we teach why. For over 25 years, Carnegie Learning has developed solutions that help students achieve Aha moments and set them up for long-term learning success. We’re driven to find new, better ways to support teachers and reach more students, so we put our leading cognitive science research and real-world insights into solutions for how students think, learn, and do their best. This is a key part of our commitment to helping teachers spark student curiosity. As a Carnegie Learning team member, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of students and educators.
What We Provide
- Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy.
- Reduced working hours for soon-to-be and new parents.
- Free access to CL products for employees and their children.
- Quarterly Wellness Incentives.
- Monthly employee activities + recognition program.
- Employee Allyship Groups (EAGs).
What We Believe
We celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that define each person's individuality. This fusion of perspectives enriches our collective knowledge, fosters innovation, and empowers us all. Together, we can collectively and more effectively address issues that face our business and industry.
If our commitment to building an inclusive workplace resonates with you, we invite you to join our mission and welcome you to apply with us. Carnegie Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Professional Learning Specialist
Part Time, Year Round Availability
What We Seek
Our Professional Learning team is looking for highly motivated current or former mathematics teachers, instructional coaches or leaders to join our team in a part-time year-round capacity. As the PL Specialist - Mathematics you will facilitate professional learning for K-12 educators utilizing Carnegie Learning mathematics resources on an as-needed basis year-round. A Carnegie Learning PL Specialist is a Carnegie Learning product ambassador, promotes implementation fidelity, and increases teacher effectiveness in each of the schools/districts they support.
As a member of the Professional Learning team, the PL Specialist, Mathematics reports to the Senior Manager of School Partnerships in their primary region and works collaboratively with many of our teams, including the internal Professional Learning Team, Regional Directors of Professional Learning, and Managers of School Partnerships to support professional learning objectives. PL Specialists may also support additional teams, including PL Design, Product, Sales, and Tutoring Services on content, design and PL support.
PL Specialists must successfully complete a suite of certification requirements, as prescribed by Carnegie Learning experts, including shadowing and co-facilitating professional learning activities with our experts. This position is part-time, year round and is recruiting throughout the calendar year; applicants will be contacted when the customer demand arises.
What Your Day Will Look Like
Delivering High-Quality Professional Learning
- Facilitating engaging professional learning workshops centered on Carnegie Learning products, best practices in teaching, and content expertise.
- Facilitating intentional adult learning experiences anchored in clear learning intentions, active participant thinking, and explicit connections to classroom practice.
- Preserving time for reflection, discourse, and application to ensure learning transfers meaningfully into classroom implementation.
- Refining workshops and learning experiences, when appropriate, to meet the unique needs and contexts of our partners.
- Delivering intentional and impactful, job-embedded professional learning to teachers and campus leadership (formal coaching cycles, collaborative lesson cycles, lesson internalization support, collaborative planning (PLC) facilitation, etc.).
- Facilitating reflective, evidence-based coaching cycles that surface teacher thinking, anchor conversations in classroom artifacts and student evidence, and build clear continuity from visit to visit.
- Cultivating teacher ownership of instructional goals and next steps by creating space for reflection, agency, and accountability over time.
- Upholding Carnegie Learning’s core commitments in every interaction—approaching educators with belief in their potential, honoring their voices and expertise, empowering their ownership of implementation, and inspiring progress and purpose in their growth.
- Leveraging data to drive teacher growth, inform ongoing support, and track partnership progress.
Operations & Documentation
- Following the Professional Learning process in all aspects of delivery: planning, confirming, communicating, executing, and following up.
- Ensuring timely completion of all documentation, including digital sign-ins, workshop feedback, coaching and support logs, courtesy emails, coaching feedback forms, and other deliverables.
- Maintaining and sharing accurate and up-to-date records regarding professional learning deliverables, including forecasting deliverables and managing your calendar.
- Using logs, feedback forms, and follow-up communication as strategic tools to strengthen continuity of coaching, clarify next steps, and build trust with educators and partners.
Other Fun Work
- Develop correlations, custom curriculum, rubrics and/or other documents to support specific PL partner needs.
- Support the sales team in pre- and post-sales environments including RFP/proposal design, pre-sales discussions, formal presentations, and supporting pilot opportunities.
- Provide Tutoring Services to CL customers as desired/available.
- PL Specialists will have varied work opportunities based on skills and experience. These opportunities are evolving continuously as the business grows.
- Performing other duties as assigned or apparent.
Exuding Our Team Core Values
- PASSION: Exuding a positive, contagious energy around the work we do.
- CURIOSITY: Seeking out new information and experiences, questioning the status quo, exploring possibilities.
- FLEXIBILITY: Quickly and calmly responding to changing circumstances.
- AGENCY: Appropriately taking initiative in your work and professional growth.
- PARTNERSHIP: Developing and effectively using collaborative relationships (internally and externally) to drive your work.
- INTEGRITY: Consistently demonstrating our core values through your work.
What You Can Expect
Primary Job Function
Approx. % of Time
Delivering High Quality Professional Learning
80%
Operations & Documentation
15%
Other Fun Work
5%
TRAVEL COMMITMENT NOTE
This job requires travel when delivering onsite professional learning. PL Specialists have the opportunity to accept or decline opportunities based on their individual schedules and plans.
What Should Be In Your Bookbag
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education (specific to your content vertical).
- 3+ years mathematics teaching experience.
- Residing in one of the following states within the territory: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Virginia, Washington DC, West Virginia.
- Flexible schedule and availability during the summer and school year.
- Prior experience with Carnegie Learning resources (preferred).
- Experience mentoring/coaching teachers (preferred).
- Experience facilitating professional learning workshops (preferred).
- Cognitive Coaching (or equivalent) certification (preferred).
- Exemplifies Carnegie Learning’s core values to the highest level.
- Exceptional time management skills, including calendar management, goal setting, and efficiency in task prioritization.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive attitude.
- Solution-minded, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement of efficiency, communication, and customer experience.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills.
What Gives Us Purpose
Others teach what; we teach why. For over 25 years, Carnegie Learning has developed solutions that help students achieve Aha moments and set them up for long-term learning success. We’re driven to find new, better ways to support teachers and reach more students, so we put our leading cognitive science research and real-world insights into solutions for how students think, learn, and do their best. This is a key part of our commitment to helping teachers spark student curiosity. As a Carnegie Learning team member, you’ll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of students and educators.
What We Provide
- Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy.
- Reduced working hours for soon-to-be and new parents.
- Free access to CL products for employees and their children.
- Quarterly Wellness Incentives.
- Monthly employee activities + recognition program.
- Employee Allyship Groups (EAGs).
What We Believe
We celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that define each person's individuality. This fusion of perspectives enriches our collective knowledge, fosters innovation, and empowers us all. Together, we can collectively and more effectively address issues that face our business and industry.
If our commitment to building an inclusive workplace resonates with you, we invite you to join our mission and welcome you to apply with us. Carnegie Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Cleveland Clinic5
- MultiCare Health System5
- UPMC5
- Anaplan4
- Michigan State University4
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services33
- Education22
- Technology & Software12
- Consulting & Professional Services4
- Government & Public Sector2
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in professional learning specialist jobs.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in education, instructional design, or a closely related field
- Experience designing and facilitating adult professional development or instructional coaching programs
- Proficiency with learning management systems such as Canvas, Schoology, or Cornerstone
- Strong knowledge of adult learning theory and evidence-based instructional practices
- Ability to analyze data to assess training effectiveness and inform program improvements
- State teaching certification or instructional coaching credential preferred for K-12 roles
Tips for Your Professional Learning Specialist Job Search
Tailor your resume to adult learning
Highlight specific professional development programs you designed or facilitated, not just that you delivered training. Hiring managers want to see measurable outcomes, like improved teacher retention scores or reduced onboarding time, tied to programs you built from scratch.
Certify your instructional design credentials
Many postings require or strongly prefer credentials like ATD's CPTD or a state-issued instructional coaching certificate. If yours are pending or informal, list relevant coursework and tools like Articulate 360 or Canvas to fill that gap on your application.
Filter openings by sector before applying
K-12 district roles, higher ed positions, and corporate L&D jobs use different vocabulary and prioritize different skills. Read each posting for whether they emphasize standards alignment, LMS administration, or change management, then mirror that language precisely in your cover letter.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists professional learning specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a facilitation portfolio sample
Most interview processes for this role include a demonstration lesson or a walk-through of a program you designed. Prepare one slide deck or workshop outline you can adapt on short notice that shows your coaching philosophy and your process for differentiating adult instruction.
Negotiate scope before salary in offers
Ask which professional development cycles you'd own, how many buildings or teams you'd serve, and whether curriculum design is included before you agree to terms. Role scope varies enormously across districts and organizations and directly affects your workload and career growth.
Professional Learning Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most professional learning specialists?
The companies hiring the most professional learning specialists right now include Cleveland Clinic, MultiCare Health System, and UPMC, with the largest share of openings in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Demand is consistently strong in large urban school districts, regional higher education systems, and mid-to-large corporate L&D teams.
How many professional learning specialist jobs are remote?
About 20% of professional learning specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, reflecting steady growth in virtual coaching and online curriculum delivery. Roles focused on e-learning development, LMS administration, and virtual facilitation have the highest remote availability, while site-based coaching and district-embedded positions almost always require in-person presence.
How do you become a professional learning specialist?
Start by earning a bachelor's degree in education, instructional design, or a related field, then gain direct classroom or training facilitation experience. Build expertise in adult learning theory and a core LMS platform. Pursue a credential like ATD's CPTD or a state instructional coaching certificate to strengthen your candidacy. Applying for instructional coach or curriculum coordinator roles first is a common path into dedicated professional learning specialist positions.
Can you get hired as a professional learning specialist with no prior experience in the role?
Yes, candidates without the exact title can break in by emphasizing transferable experience such as classroom teaching, corporate training facilitation, or curriculum writing. Demonstrating a working knowledge of adult learning frameworks, showing a portfolio of programs or materials you created, and targeting organizations that promote from instructional coach or trainer roles gives you a realistic entry point without prior specialist experience.
What does the professional learning specialist interview process look like?
Most hiring processes include an initial screening call, a structured competency interview focused on instructional design and coaching philosophy, and a practical demonstration where you facilitate a short session or present a sample professional development plan. Some organizations add a portfolio review or a panel interview with department heads. The entire process typically runs across multiple rounds before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to professional learning specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to professional learning specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your background, sector preference, and location, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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