Sentence:
"Having started at the position of a teacher, I was later promoted to holding the role of the coordinator of the school."
I wonder if this sentence is correct.
The idea is that "holding the role" is a promotional responsibility and that is why I prefer using the gerund. Thoughts please?
it is awkward to speak of being promoted to “holding”, or any other verbal construction: one is customarily promoted to a position, not an action.
In any case, I would express this much more simply:
I started as a teacher and was later promoted to Coordinator of the school.
(But if you held intervening positions I would replace later with eventually.)
Position, hold and role are entirely superfluous: their sense is expressed in the narrative sequence. I have capitalized Coordinator on the assumption that this is the actual title you bore, which is what should go here.
