Vice President of Program

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Education Board Partners
District of Columbia, USA
Full-time

In this newly created position, the Vice President of Program will report directly to the CEO and lead our lean program team of four staff members and a handful of program consultants. Specifically, this role will:

  • Support CEO to develop and grow program (10%)

    • Align program goals with revenue goals and monitor progress towards both

    • Build relationships with key external stakeholders to support program development and growth

    • Help determine which geographies EBP should be targeting and maintain and grow partnerships

  • Oversee program execution (50%)

    • Set clear program goals for board recruitment, board coaching and ecosystem leadership advising work, identifying top priorities for program development, design, and delivery and holding the team accountable to measures of quality and impact

    • Allocate program staff, consultants and material resources to develop and deliver high quality program content

    • Lead a high-performing program team, insuring quality delivery of services, a focus on organizational goals, high staff retention, and a strong team culture

  • Deliver program (40%)

    • Work with clients and partners to recruit and match board members, provide tailored coaching and training to boards, and advise funders, policymakers, authorizers, and other stakeholders around strengthening boards

    • Maintain a strategically defined client portfolio, including especially high profile or complex client engagements

    • Lead the team in developing innovative content and resources to support stronger governance

Areas of Responsibility: 

Here’s how we would describe the ideal person for this role:

  • Passion for governance: You are deeply aligned with EBP’s mission, demonstrated by a belief that strong governance is crucial to achieving excellent educational outcomes for all students and a commitment to educational equity and increasing diverse leadership in education

  • Strong team management: You have experience and greatly enjoy leading, inspiring, and developing a high performing team of experienced professionals

  • Anti-racist lens: You are committed to an anti-racist approach to the work, your colleagues, our partners and clients, and leaders in the field

  • Exceptional project manager: You are an exceptionally strong project manager, and you are great at executing your own work and holding others accountable to do the same 

  • Great relationship builder: You have demonstrated experience building strong, authentic, trusting relationships with a wide variety of individuals 

  • Collaborative, self-starting and adaptable: You are a team player, you enjoy working with a high energy, hard working, and slightly irreverent team, and you don’t mind having lots of balls in the air at all times

Skills/Experience: 

Additionally, we need someone who has: 

  • Led a team to achieve measurable success

  • Been on and/or worked directly with multiple nonprofit boards

  • A high level of comfort with all elements of the professional service business process (business development and/or fundraising, project scoping, project management, budget allocation, service delivery and client management)

  • Experience measuring client satisfaction, effectiveness of trainings and coaching, progress to goals and outcomes

  • A deep understanding of the national education reform landscape 

  • The ability to work independently and flexibly (we are 90% virtual, 10% in person) and travel regularly to client locations (approximately 20-30% of the job) 

Compensation/Benefits: 

Anyone joining the EBP team must demonstrate alignment with our Core Values: Achieve Impact, Create Community, Deepen Expertise, Be Courageous, and Embrace Humanity (please visit edboards.org for additional detail).

Benefits: We offer a competitive benefits package and salary commensurate with experience. We aim to be a great place for people to work and have a generous total benefit package for our team (e.g., half day Fridays in the summer, we close the week between Christmas and New Years, a generous 401k match, child care subsidy for travel, etc.). 

We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.  EBP values diversity and inclusion, both in our workplace and on the boards with which we work, and we are actively seeking talented team members who come from diverse backgrounds and bring different experiences and perspectives.

Job Function: 
Education, Professional Development & Training

Organization Info

Education Board Partners

Overview
Headquarters: 
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Website: 
edboards.org
Size: 
1-10 employees
Founded: 
2010
About Us
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Mission: 

Education Board Partners (formerly Charter Board Partners) is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to strengthening nonprofit boards in education. Volunteer boards in education — the boards of public charter schools, nonprofit education organizations, and autonomous district schools — are a powerful force operating independent of politics to improve school quality, equity, and accountability. They bring valuable expertise and leadership experience to schools, and they make decisions in close proximity to students, staff, and communities. In short, boards make the decisions that make schools better for kids.

Programs: 

Our three core areas of work include:

  • We recruit board members for schools that need deeper skills, relevant experience, and more diversity. 
    Board work is people work. EBP engages deeply with boards around their goals, recruits talented and motivated people, and personally connects them with the boards that need their skills and experience. We focus particularly on recruiting and building diverse boards: More than half of American public school students are students of color (a number that increases each year), but 86% of nonprofit board members in the U.S. are white. Through this work, we aim to ensure that education-related boards better represent the students in our public schools.   
     
  • We provide tailored support for board members and executive directors to help them govern well.
    EBP provides customized coaching, adaptable tools and templates, and robust trainings that help boards govern effectively and equitably. We train boards to understand opportunity and achievement gaps in our public schools and make decisions that help close them. We help educate all board members about the broader education landscape and equip them to speak up in favor of equitable access to high-quality schools for all students and families.
     
  • We help decision-makers incentivize strong boards.
    Because effective governance results in stronger accountability and higher-quality schools, EBP partners with authorizers, support organizations, and funders to help them more accurately measure board effectiveness and insist on engaged, diverse boards. 
Why Work For Us?: 

At Education Board Partners, we care deeply about how and why we do the work. Our name reflects our core principles:

  • We are driven by the belief that every child deserves access to a high-quality education; we measure our success by whether schools are better, not whether boards are better. (We are educators first and foremost; everyone at EBP has spent time as a classroom teacher and/or working in schools.)

  • Volunteer boards in education — the boards of public charter schools, nonprofit education organizations, and autonomously-governed district schools — are a powerful force, operating independent of politics, to improve school quality, equity, and accountability. They bring valuable expertise and leadership experience and make decisions in close proximity to students, staff, and communities.

  • We partner with individuals and organizations across the country and at every level of the ecosystem — boards, school leaders, funders, policymakers, authorizers, education support organizations — who are working to improve outcomes for students.

Independently governed boards put in place the context for success, shield schools from the ever-changing forces of politics, and insist on results. Boards also provide charter schools with volunteer board members who bring valuable skills, experience, perspective, expertise, and resources that public schools often have a hard time accessing. And serving on the board of a public school gives those individuals the opportunity to play a meaningful role in their communities, contribute to improving public education, and make a real difference in the lives of children.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jan 24 2020
Active Until: 
Feb 24 2020
Hiring Organization: 
Education Board Partners
industry: 
Nonprofit