Managing Director, Early Reading Initiative – Delivery
Instruction Partners
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $166,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Leads the ERI delivery team to implement the work with excellence, ensuring it is grounded in its theory of change and focused on achieving significant reading gains for partner districts
- Coaches and develops the team to strengthen their ability to build data-informed improvement plans, support leaders’ instructional and change-management capacity, and ensure coherent implementation with both internal and external partners
- Works closely with school systems to stay attuned to system needs and emerging trends, identifying bright spots and challenges in elementary reading
- Guides the direction of the initiative, offering recommendations on service design, tools, and resources, as well as measurement and data tools
- Plays a key role in sustaining strong relationships with current partners and expanding work with new ones
- Cultivates a big-hearted, inclusive team culture rooted in organizational values and focused on creating an excellent team experience
Requirements
- 10+ years of educational experience and 5+ years of system-level instructional leadership, either in a charter school network or traditional district
- Proven ability to translate organizational vision into a divisional strategy, manage work across teams, anticipate organizational interdependencies, and ensure aligned goals and resourcing for the Elementary Reading Initiative
- Mastery in coaching leaders (District Implementation Specialists) to diagnose systemic and instructional needs, make data-informed decisions, and build their capacity to manage performance and team culture
- Deep understanding of the instructional, systemic, and leadership conditions that enable improved elementary reading and language development for multilingual learners
- Expertise in translating senior-level vision into design outcomes, overseeing and designing workflows, and guiding the creation of new systems and processes to implement the initiative’s strategy and achieve intended goals at scale
- Expertise in managing a portfolio of system partnerships, balancing near-term delivery with long-term strategic impact
- Embodies a deep commitment to advancing equitable outcomes for students through trust-based partnerships.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options
- Generous vacation policy
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data-informed decision makingsystem-level instructional leadershipcoaching leadersperformance managementworkflow designsystem process implementationpartnership managementstrategic planningelementary reading improvementlanguage development
Soft Skills
team leadershiprelationship buildingorganizational valuesinclusive team culturechange managementcommunicationcollaborationtrust-buildingcapacity buildinganticipating interdependencies