Associate Director, LIFT Program Compliance

Instruction Partners

Associate Director overseeing compliance for the Texas Education Agency’s LIFT Program. Leading complex projects to ensure adherence to grant requirements and improve educational outcomes.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $101,500 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leads increasingly complex projects and ensures outcomes related to the end-to-end compliance lifecycle for the 3-year grant cycle including planning, implementation, and sustainability phases
Adapts and integrates multiple frameworks to ensure all deliverables, such as needs assessments and instructional leadership coaching, aligned with specific district pathways
Evaluates issues and anticipates challenges to ensure all assigned delivery team members provide required training content identified in district needs assessments
Assesses complex issues and weighs alternatives as the primary liaison for compliance-related data collection to ensure district partners meet reporting deadlines
Applies knowledge to shape programs and processes by coordinating with finance and program teams to ensure all allowable costs are tracked and documented according to federal and state fiscal guidelines
Supports district leadership in navigating application and reporting portals, providing guidance to strengthen team expertise
Collaborates with engagement teams to develop contract completion and impact templates to ensure accountability and sustained impact
Acts as a strategic advisor during the contract renewal process, translating complex grant requirements into clear operational guidelines for leadership

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of professional experience in program compliance, grant management, or educational operations
Regulatory Systems Mastery: Extensive training and proven experience navigating complex state-level regulatory databases and enterprise project management architectures to optimize data integrity and operational transparency
Strategic Operational Logic: Demonstrated ability to decode multi-layered regulatory frameworks and fiscal pathways, synthesizing them into clear, logical structures that bridge the gap between compliance and implementation
Relational Diplomacy: Highly developed skills in exercising emotional intelligence and sophisticated negotiation techniques to manage competing priorities and build collaborative capital with district leaders
Grant Management Expertise: Deep, specialized knowledge of state and federal grant guidelines, including the ability to provide accurate and reliable guidance on allowable costs and reporting milestones
Systems Design and Analysis: Proven ability to analyze information to solve problems and design efficient operational routines that support team effectiveness and organizational goals.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options
Generous vacation policy

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Hard Skills & Tools

program compliancegrant managementregulatory systems masterydata integrityoperational transparencyfiscal pathwayssystems designinformation analysisoperational routines

Soft Skills

emotional intelligencenegotiation techniquescollaborative capitalstrategic advisingproblem-solving