TeachKind Program Coordinator

As TeachKind’s Program Coordinator, you'll strive to make the world kinder by helping K – 5 educators bring compassion for animals into their curriculum! Whether it’s maintaining TeachKind’s presence on education platforms, building creative, engaging features and activities for the TeachKind website, or coordinating various projects that help spread the important message of kindness to animals in schools, your work will make a huge impact on teachers and students! TeachKind, PETA’s humane education division, is growing every day, and we need someone with experience and knowledge in the classroom to help us be more effective than ever.

Position Objective:

To bring kindness-to-animals messaging into PreK–5 classrooms through creative curriculum resources, educator outreach, and digital platform engagement

Primary Responsibilities and Duties:

• Brainstorm and support the development of creative, engaging features and activities for the TeachKind website

• Assist with analyzing TeachKind’s presence and performance on popular education websites like Teachers Pay Teachers and Kahoot

• Assist with TeachKind media-related projects, including the promotion of vegan food sponsorships, TeachKind contests, and awards to educators, schools, and districts

• Brainstorm creative ways to get kindness to animals messages and activities into the PreK-5 classroom —from engaging, standards-aligned lessons and activities teachers can incorporate into their curricula, to features that support educators to be as effective as possible

• Work with the TeachKind team and the Production department on the creation of new downloadable and printed resources for PreK-5 educators

• Research the latest teaching news, education trends, and other relevant topics related to the PreK-5 grade level

• Build and maintain relationships with a network of PreK-5 teachers through e-mail and digital outreach efforts

• Seek out speaking opportunities targeting elementary teachers and administrators and prepare presentations that promote TeachKind resources and initiatives

• Review books geared to PreK-5 grade level

• Help to coordinate and attend education conferences and other events on behalf of TeachKind

• Perform any other tasks assigned by the supervisor