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.
Areas of Responsibility:
- 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
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or equivalent work experience) in education, public health, communication, sociology, or related field
Skills/Experience:
- 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
Compensation/Benefits:
Salary: $61,000 to $70,000 per year
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Jun 8 2019
Active Until:
Jul 8 2019
Hiring Organization:
United Way Worldwide
industry:
Nonprofit