National Equity Project

Director

• Co-lead refinement of the Living Lab’s vision, theory of change, outcomes, and operating approach in partnership with the Managing Director of Field Strategy & Impact and key internal/external interest-holders.
• Translate the vision into an initiative charter (scope, success measures, roles, governance, decision cadence) and keep it current as conditions shift.
• Define and maintain a small set of outcome-aligned metrics and benchmarks (leading + lagging indicators) and ensure they are usable for decisions—not just reporting.
• Steward relationships with core partner leaders (e.g., superintendents, curriculum leaders, and key district/community partners) directly tied to the Living Lab’s success.
• Design and run a partner engagement strategy that clarifies value exchange, expectations, and contribution pathways across the California Cohort and National Network.
• Support partnership and resource development efforts by providing initiative narrative, partner intelligence, and coordination for proposals and funder communications (primary relationship owners as designated by NEP).
• Own the day-to-day delivery system for the Living Lab: workplan, milestones, roles/responsibilities, dependencies, risk management, and decision tracking.
• Establish lightweight project management routines and tools that create clarity and accountability across strands of work, without over-bureaucratizing the initiative.
• Co-develop and track the initiative budget and resource plan with the Managing Director / Chief of Staff; flag variances early and recommend tradeoffs to protect outcomes and organizational health.
• Coordinate staffing needs and role clarity across NEP teammates, contractors, and partners; support onboarding and operating rhythms (staffing decisions made by designated leaders)
• Coordinate a small, cross-functional leadership team with NEP staff in key roles and dedicated capacity to drive decisions, coordinate workstreams.
• Design and facilitate convenings, working groups, and collaborative sessions that move the work forward—alignment, decisions, learning, and commitments (not just “good conversations”).
• Navigate complex interest-holder dynamics across differing priorities, cultures, and constraints; surface tensions early and create pathways to resolution anchored in shared values and equity commitments.
• Build practical measurement and learning loops that help the initiative adapt in real time (what’s emerging, what’s working, what’s stuck, what we’re changing).
• Create systems to capture and synthesize promising practices across the California Cohort and National Network, in collaboration with internal partners.
• Partner with External Communications and Field Strategy & Impact leadership to translate learning into field-facing outputs (e.g., briefs, tools, convening insights, presentations), scoped to a realistic cadence.
• Contribute to funder management by supporting updates, learning briefs, and reports, helping translate progress and insights into clear narratives in partnership with NEP leadership.

Director, Living Lab for High School Reinvention

• Develop & implement a 3-year comprehensive service delivery strategy and model that is aligned to NEP’s outcomes, further expands and deepens our work with leaders and organizations, and results in $3.5M-$4.0M annual revenue.
• Strategize with Regional Directors to establish business development strategies that result in a robust pipeline that helps to grow the number of clients that NEP partners and works with, who are working towards creating thriving learning environments for students.
• Identify, assess, and pursue opportunities to expand NEP’s work and impact into new regions and locations, where we can support the efforts of aligned leaders and organizations.
• Improve, design, and codify service offerings based on feedback / learnings from past and current projects, that are responsive to emerging needs from the education field, and that leverages NEP’s content, approach, and frameworks, developed over a 30-year history.
• Establish clear expectations, standards, and processes for service delivery to ensure consistency in quality.
• Collaborate with and support Regional Directors to build and maintain strong relationships with partners, funders, and other stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and collaboration to advance regional strategy objectives.
• Lead and manage high-profile, complex client projects that help to advance NEP's strategy, build and cultivate new or existing partnerships, and/or support our field impact goals.
• Cultivate a nurturing team environment that operates in alignment with NEP’s core values and motivates and inspires teammates to work collaboratively towards shared vision and goals.
• Contribute to NEP’s expanding and deepening influence on the education field by serving as an external representative of the organization, contributing to external communications and products, and building the routines and practices for capturing impact stories from our direct services work.
• Serve as a key member of NEP’s executive leadership team, charged with stewarding NEP’s work, investments, and resources towards its intended impact and collaborating across all areas of the organization.

Director, Living Lab for High School Reinvention

Managing Director, PK-12 Strategy – Impact