Curriculum Coordinator, Native American Language Teacher Training

The College of Education and Human Sciences (COEHS) seeks applicants for a Curriculum Coordinator to support the American Indian Language Policy Research and Teacher Training Center’s training activities for Native American Language Teachers. The Center provides a venue for developing training materials, providing Native language teacher training workshops and technical assistance in support of Native American language teachers engaged in or preparing to teach their language in school or community-based language maintenance and preservation initiatives.

The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for the following:

• Assist the Project Director in preparing Native language teacher training curriculum and resource materials for workshops and Institutes conducted by the American Indian Language Policy Research and Teacher Training Center for American Indian language teachers.
• Serve as the main point of contact with tribes, tribal language programs and other collaborative constituencies requesting technical assistance and professional development support for Native language teachers, Native language curriculum development work and community engagement regarding Native language teaching.
• Assist with training activities for mentors of Native American language teachers.
• Assist in the production of Native language curriculum resource materials to be used in Native language programs and provide training to Native language teachers in the use of technology and equipment housed in the Center to develop various types of instructional resource materials.
• Assist in facilitating and expanding outreach activities for early childhood education in collaboration with EC programs focused on Native language and culture.
• Coordinate a schedule of materials development and training requests and distribution of resources in response to technical assistance requests from external constituencies.
• Assist with coordination and facilitation of planning summer institutes with teaching team consultants.
• Catalog, maintain, and archive all developed curriculum material samples.
• Prepare training reports and maintain communications with internal and external stakeholders on materials development projects; professional development planning meetings; and other curriculum tasks assigned by the Center Director. 
• Maintain an updated inventory of supplies and materials used in developing resources for training and instruction.

See the Position Description for additional information.

Bachelor's degree; at least 1 year of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.

Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis.

• Successful experience working with Indigenous language communities in the state of New Mexico.
• Successful experience in collaborative work with multiple stakeholder groups focused on Native language and education.
• Experience in designing Native language curriculums and developing visual and graphic materials for language teaching purposes.
• Ability to interact successfully with school administrators, students, language teachers, faculty and/or staff in a team environment.
• Knowledge of materials development equipment including, poster printers, laminators, book-making equipment, copiers, MacIntosh computers, and computer applications such as Word, Powerpoint, and other graphic applications.

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Positions posted with a Staff Type of Regular or Term are eligible for the Veteran Preference Program. See the Veteran Preference Program webpage for additional details.

The University of New Mexico is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

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