The Senior Director of School Partnerships leads our organization’s efforts to create the strategy, partnerships, and innovations necessary for comprehensively helping high-risk schools succeed in reducing education disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, and income.
In collaboration with district and school partners, develop, implement, and support projects and partnerships related to successful school systems
- Build trusting relationships with district leadership, principals, cross-sector leaders, and community stakeholders
- Convene and facilitate collaborative working groups focused on school success
- Provide facilitation, strategic thinking, and project management to the activities of partnership groups
- Plan for how to spread and scale promising practices
- Manage group logistics, data, processes, and collateral
Engage in rigorous continuous improvement processes
- With support from data team, equip partnerships with the data and analytics to know where and how to invest their time, effort, and financial resources
- Plan, execute, and monitor effectiveness of our work with partners
Be accountable for results and foster the sense of accountability for results in partners
- Work with partners to develop a set of performance measures
- Provide coaching for partners conducting improvement cycles
- Establish personal and group norms that allow partners to feel highly accountable
Oversee school director team’s data collection and reporting on measures of school success
- Collaborate with the school team and with the data team to develop and implement data collection processes
- Create dashboards and standard reports for team and for leadership to monitor for school risk factors
- Use data insights to adaptively elevate concerns about schools to relevant partners
Responsible for tracking and understanding education-related policies and practices
- Determine how current education-related policies influence systemic practices
- Stay on top of research related to evidence-based educational practices
- Help team understand the implications of educational policy and practice change
Participate on the department leadership team
- Provide leadership, mentorship, and support for external partners and staff
- Align work across roles, set department strategy, and execute on that strategy
- Provide content to marketing and resource development teams to broaden awareness of our work and increase potential funding opportunities
Support our partnership’s leadership body, the Promise Partnership Regional Council
- Collaborate with council members to advocate for necessary systems change
- Prepare materials, talking points, and presentations for bi-monthly meetings
- Knowledge of educational systems, policies, and practices
- Ability to convene a group of partners from different agencies and inspire them to engage in systematic cycles of analysis and action that improve outcomes for students and families
- Ability to hold honest conversations that lead to shared goals and aligned actions
- Foster trust and open communication with diverse partners
- Recognize and address conflict and concerns; proactively and creatively problem solve
- Help draw connections and alignment between ideas, programs, initiatives, and partners
- Interact comfortably with many stakeholders
- Synthesize information and simplify complexity
- Locate, disaggregate, and use data to forecast, structure conversations, and make decisions
- Address disparities related to race, ethnicity, income, and other factors
- Confidence and humility to ask questions, admit and address challenges, and “fail forward”
- 3-4 years of directly applicable experience
- 2-3 years supervisory experience
- 1-2 years working with data and running reports and queries in databases
- Proficient with Microsoft and Google suites
Salary: $61,000 to $70,000 per year