Equal Opportunity Schools Hiring for Vice President of Programs at Seattle, WA Full Time

Location: National. Remote, with 30% of expected travel.

Compensation: $150,000 – $170,000. Plus benefits.

Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, October 26

Who We Are:
Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS) creates equitable learning environments and ensures that students from diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds have the opportunity to enroll and succeed in your most rigorous high school courses.

Through the Action For Equity (A4E) framework, we support schools and districts with the coaching, data analytics, and student identification tools necessary to eliminate the opportunity gap.

We’ve partnered with over 800 schools, including 5 of the 20 largest districts in the country. We’ve maintained an 80% renewal rate with district partners, and have supported districts to enroll an additional 52,000 students of color and low income students into advanced academic pathways across the country. Over 75% of schools maintain their pass rates, average grade earned and average test score after working with EOS.

The Opportunity: The Vice President of Programs will drive the strategic direction and set the learning agenda for programs, foster a collaborative and inclusive culture, coach, develop and manage leaders in implementing the A4E program model, and cultivate relationships with school leaders and external partners.

What You’ll Do:
Cultivate relationships with external strategic partners and stakeholders. This includes supporting the Partnerships team with identifying and cultivating relationships with prospective partners, fostering relationships with school, district, state public education partners, other education nonprofits, and policy experts, amplifying the stories and impact of programs, serving as an EOS ambassador, and speaking at external-facing events.

Build and foster an inclusive and collaborative team culture. This includes prioritizing community and team-building, building a culture that centers empathy, feedback, and transparency into everyday practices, fostering the conditions for new ideas and creative solutions to be exchanged, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and working alongside cabinet and senior leadership to develop and implement employee retention strategies.

Coach, develop and manage leaders in implementing the A4E program model across public high schools. This includes co-developing regional strategic plans and goals, leveraging the expertise and build the capacity of leaders, establishing accountability measures, facilitating performance evaluations, helping to resolve school/district-level challenges or concerns that arise, and identifying and forecasting talent needs and gaps.

Drive the strategic direction and set the learning agenda for the A4E program model. This includes setting the learning agenda and vision for programs, developing and executing a data-driven strategic plan to scale programs, identify the highest value of program changes, integrate structures and systems that maximize the technology platform, and ensure practices and services are codified and implemented with fidelity to the A4E program model.

Who You Are

You believe in EOS’s mission to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color and low-income students.

You are a strategic and analytical thinker. You are able to see and communicate the big picture in an inspiring way. You determine opportunities and threats through a comprehensive analysis of current and future trends in education. You identify and work to remove barriers that get in the way of shifting and changing systems.

You are an equity and inclusion influencer. You bring an intersectional lens and emphasize dismantling all forms of oppression. You are personally committed to redressing power imbalances, developing mutually beneficial and non-paternalistic partnerships.

You are an operational and people manager. You have strong people & organizational management skills with expertise in developing and coaching leaders, who in turn, motivate and inspire teams. You strike a balance between pushing leaders to do their best, while providing the time and space to execute independently.

You are relational and collaborative. You facilitate high-learning, high-performing collaborative relationships and teams within initiative and external stakeholders.

You adapt change with a learning and solutions-oriented approach. You have an ability to maneuver through a remote culture that is in its growth stages.

You differentiate learning experiences and spaces based on the needs of people and teams. You co-create, leverage and uplift the expertise and unique perspectives of others.

Benefits: Equal Opportunity Schools offers a competitive benefits package and paid time off policy. This includes, medical, dental, vision life and long-term disability insurance, retirement planning/employer matching contribution, accrued paid time off (10 hours/month during first year), employee assistance program, funding of professional development, and flexible/alternative work arrangements.

Is this you? We’d like to learn more about you! The application includes a Round 1 – one-way interview that you’ll complete, along with your 1) two short-answer questions and 2) Resume. No Cover letter.

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Questions? Email [email protected].