Senior Coordinator, Education

About Sesame WorkshopSesame Workshop is the global nonprofit behind Sesame Street with a mission to help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. We support children and the caring adults in their lives in the moments that shape early childhood, reaching families with playful learning in over 190 countries. Through beloved characters and joyful educational media, Sesame helps children understand themselves, connect with others, and make sense of an ever-changing world. Job SummaryThe Senior Coordinator, Education plays a key role in ensuring the development of high-quality, impactful educational content that aligns with Sesame Workshop's mission. This position supports the creation process, review, coordination, and publishing of educational materials that drive clear, consistent, and meaningful learning experiences for children and families. The Senior Coordinator collaborates with internal teams, advisors, and consultants to ensure content accuracy, cultural relevance, and educational effectiveness.This role sits within the Global Education Department, which creates, curates, and evolves educational messages and content that meet the learning needs of Sesame Workshop's audiences. Alongside its core writing and editorial responsibilities, the role helps maintain the editorial parameters, templates, and review practices that guide how departmental content is developed and published, and supports a recurring review of existing content assets so the team can make informed decisions about relevance, reach, and usability. The Senior Coordinator supports content across the department's programmatic portfolio - including emergency preparedness, the autism initiative, co-design work, family engagement resources, and child-facing digital experiences - and works fluently across the range of digital tools and platforms these efforts rely on. Responsibilities & DeliveryThe Senior Coordinator ensures educational content moves from concept to publication with consistency, accuracy, and care with an eye toward how that content is structured, maintained, and evaluated over time so the team can make well-informed decisions about what to build, revise, or retire. This role is the connective tissue between educational writing, editorial quality, and publishing execution.Delivery * Support project coordination for educational content development, ensuring materials move smoothly through all stages - from concept to final product - on time and within scope. * Assist with creating educational content (such as facilitator guides, family handouts, digital articles, and other materials) in collaboration with content developers and cross-functional teams. * Line edit, copyedit, and proofread educational materials to ensure consistency, clarity, style, tone, accuracy, and alignment with learning goals and brand standards. * Maintain and expand digital publishing of educational content across the department's digital platforms, ensuring materials are formatted, tagged, and structured appropriately for the channels and audiences they serve. * Support cross-departmental efforts (e.g., marketing, creative, research, impact programs teams) in implementing content into digital experiences and site updates, contributing to the programming, design input, and usability of content platforms and child-facing digital experiences. * Conduct fact-checking to enhance content accuracy and relevance. * Support content quality assurance, including layout reviews and final checks before delivery or publication. Help manage tracking and archiving of educational messages and goals for existing and new resources, and support a recurring review of existing content assets - gathering input and summarizing findings on relevance, reach, and usability for content owners. * Help maintain editorial guidelines, templates, and workflow documentation for the team, contributing to the continuous improvement of content development a