National Equity Project

Managing Director, PK-12 Strategy – Impact

National Equity Project

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: California • Illinois • United States

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Salary

💰 $185,000 - $192,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Are passionate about educational equity and ensuring that every young person in every community has what they need to learn, develop, thrive, and contribute
  • Have a minimum of 10 years leading project / client delivery within PK-12 education agencies (e.g. school districts, charter management organizations, other learning systems, etc.), youth development, or school-district support organization experience working within school systems and/or organizations that create learner-centered environments, a plus
  • Have demonstrated experience leading organization-wide, change management efforts and initiatives, including growing a program and/or organization in terms of both size and impact
  • Have a strong track record of coaching and building the capacity of leaders in PK-12 education agencies to do their jobs more effectively and with greater impact
  • Are comfortable leading proactively and opportunistically to move work in conditions of uncertainty
  • Model and champion NEP’s Core Values and Guiding Principles
  • Have a proven ability to effectively work and collaborate across differences, including race, gender and culture, and willingness to engage in honest conversations about challenging topics such as racism and systemic oppression
  • Live in California, Michigan, or Illinois. *Please note that these are preferred locations. *
  • Are able to travel 25-30% of the time
  • Are eligible to work in the United States
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement 403b
  • Voluntary life insurance, long-term disability, and short-term disability
  • Remote / work from home
  • $1,000 professional learning budget
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