Regional Education Quality & Coaching Manager

Regional Education Manager

Love making a difference? You'll fit right in. As a coaching manager, there’s something truly special about knowing you’re shaping a child’s future. When you join The Sunshine House family, you’re not just taking a job—you’re making an impact. Our preschool education managers play a crucial role in mentoring education leaders. Learn more about our 50-year legacy of love & early childhood learning:

The Regional Education Quality & Coaching Manager is a field-based instructional leader who develops Education Coaches, partners with center and regional operations leaders, and leads measurable improvement in early childhood learning experiences. Through data-informed problem solving, practice-based coaching, professional learning, and quality-improvement cycles, this position builds the capacity of adults to sustain strong daily teaching practices for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, prekindergarten students, and, as assigned, school-age children.

Now Hiring for: The Greenville region

Compensation & Pay Range

$57,000-$64,000 annually plus free childcare, car/phone allowances.

Candidates with preferred requirements may qualify for higher pay within the range. Regular increases are considered with additional education, stellar performance, and years of service.

Essential Accountabilities

• Coach management and capability development
• Center diagnostic quality improvement leadership
• Curriculum and teaching practice
• Measurement, documentation and communication
• Professional learning and assigned project ownership
• Cross-functional partnership and leadership conduct

Key Attributes

• Evidence-seeking
• Coachable
• Empathetic and candid
• Accountable
• Tactful in operations partnerships
• Self-directed
• Organized
• Adaptable
• Grounded in developmentally appropriate practice
• Able to teach others to solve problems.

Requirements

Minimum required

• Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Early Childhood Administration, or a closely related field with demonstrated early childhood content expertise.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in licensed early care and education, including substantial classroom instructional experience and at least two years leading, managing, or formally coaching adults.
• Demonstrated understanding of center operations (staffing and scheduling constraints, classroom ratios, licensing readiness, enrollment, director responsibilities) and effective practice for birth through age five.
• Evidence of having led a multi-step improvement effort, used data to inform decisions, and monitored completion of an action plan.
• Ability to conduct objective observations, facilitate professional learning, provide constructive coaching, manage multiple deadlines, and use common digital productivity and data tools.
• Ability to meet required background screening, travel, driving and other job-related conditions consistent with applicable law and reasonable accommodation.

Preferred

• Master’s degree; multi-site early childhood leadership; director/assistant director experience; previous formal supervision of coaches or managers.
• Experience with Creative Curriculum, Brain Connect or comparable curriculum; ERS, CLASS, state QRIS systems, and reflective or practice-based coaching.
• Experience with dashboard design, data cleaning, coaching logs, project management, and evaluation of training transfer.
• Experience across infant/toddler and preschool/pre-K, and school-age settings where relevant.