Senior Coordinator, Education

About Sesame Workshop

Sesame 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 Summary

The 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 & Delivery

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Communications, English, Instructional Design, or a related field; or
• 1 - 2+ years of relevant experience in educational content development, editorial operations, content strategy, or a related area.
• Strong writing and editing skills, with a demonstrated ability to craft clear, engaging, developmentally appropriate content including experience with digital publishing (e.g., content management systems, formatting content for web and digital distribution)
• Proven ability to line edit, copyedit, and proofread educational materials with attention to detail and adherence to style guides including using content management and digital publishing platforms; design and prototyping tools; and artificial-intelligence-assisted writing, research, and search tools, including an understanding of how generative engines surface and summarize content
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work independently using collaborative documents, spreadsheet, and project-tracking tools; basic analytics and reporting dashboards;
• Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional teams, ideally in educational media, curriculum development, nonprofit, or social impact settings.

Preferred Qualifications

Sesame Workshop Hybrid Work Policy

This position is based at our headquarters office in New York (Manhattan) at 1900 Broadway, New York, NY, and follows a hybrid work model. In-office requirements vary by role and employee group, and currently range from two to five designated in-office days per week.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement

As a federal contractor, Sesame Workshop follows Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions as guided by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Equal Opportunity Employment (EOE) Statement

Sesame Workshop is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy-related condition, familial status, domestic violence victim status, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

PSEA Statement

Sesame Workshop is an equal-opportunity employer. All employment decisions are based on the business needs, job requirements & suitability of the candidate. Sesame Workshop strictly follows the Child Safeguarding Policy, and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of program participants from exploitation and to clarify the responsibilities of Sesame Workshop staff, consultants, visitors to the program and partner organization, and the standards of behavior expected from them.