Senior Director, Custom Strategy Consulting

This is a full time position located from a remote office anywhere in the country with a requirement of up to 50% national travel in accordance with public health guidelines.

What You’ll Do

At Instruction Partners, we are dedicated to achieving our vision that all students experience an excellent education that prepares them to contribute to their community, achieve economic security, and pursue their dreams. We are clear and effective in our focus on strengthening instructional leadership to achieve that vision. Our core services deeply attend to building leader capacity to lead strong instructional systems and as an organization, we recognize the centering of students in priority groups (students of color, multilingual students, students with disabilities, and students experiencing poverty) in partners’ visioning, planning, capacity-building, and integration of equitable teacher and leadership support systems, enables reliable, scalable, and consistent instructional improvement over time. At the same time, we seek to engage in equitable innovation on our work, pursuing learning in new areas as an opportunity to expand our service lines and deepen our impact as an organization. 

We anticipate three main priorities in our learning across the next few years: 1) AI/data-driven instruction 2) the intersection of curriculum-based professional learning/HQIM and strategic staffing and 3) principal role clarity. 

Critical to our learning and innovation, we seek a Senior Director, Custom Strategy Consulting to own  the development of new service lines specific to the intersection of strategic staffing and CBPL/HQIM, manage a portfolio of consulting clients across a variety of topics and foci, and support the development of direction and strategy for our innovation. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with consulting partners across math and ELA specific contracts that require flexibility in thinking from the highest balcony level to the in the weeds details. Reporting to the Executive Director of Engagement, the Senior Director, Custom Strategy Consulting will design and deliver consulting projects, solutions, and service model prototypes outside of Instruction Partners’ core services.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

Innovation + Service Line Design 

• Design and deliver projects related to CBPL/HQIM and strategic staffing aligned to Instruction Partners learning agenda, leading sustainable service design along the way
• Lead organizational learning and translation of learnings in CBPL/HQIM integration with strategic staffing into Instruction Partner’s core services
• Serve as the owner of CBPL/HQIM integration with strategic staffing projects within the Instruction Partners learning system, working closely with the Measurement and Evaluation team to develop appropriate learning questions, measurement plans, and aligned evidence
• Support design fundraising needs by writing/contributing to grant proposals and other grant updates

• Design and deliver user-centered, content-specific, cross-cutting, and simple solutions to challenges outside of core service offerings, both independently and in collaboration with other Custom Strategy Consulting team members towards agreed upon outcomes that advance the needs of our students in priority groups
• Codify learnings from projects to share across the organization and inform ongoing organizational development and learning, in partnership with direct reports

Business Development: 

• Support the Executive Director, Engagement in conversation with potential partners, following up on relationships, and finalizing project scopes of work 
• Leverage external networks across the country to build relationships and identify new partners for Custom Strategy Consulting team 
• Manage a portfolio of continuing and new custom partners, including ongoing relationship building and cultivation. 

Required Candidate Qualifications:

• A commitment to developing and applying anti-racist leadership through intentional engagement, reflection, and feedback 
• 12+ years of K-12 education experience including  3+ years of system-level instructional leadership, organizational leadership, or consulting experience
• Experience leading instructional improvement for a school, charter system, program, district, and/or state partnership with a track record of improving student achievement or program outcomes
• Experience in education consulting at a senior level, including experience in product and service design, including creating nuanced approaches and solutions in highly ambiguous environments
• An expert at relationship building and cultivation who leverages great communication skills to develop quick rapport and build trust across lines of difference. 
• Demonstrated success navigating and managing complex and nuanced relationships, including the ability to motivate and influence decisions of partners’ senior leadership
• The ability to critically assess challenges, center students in priority groups, and identify innovative, effective solutions in ambiguous situations
• Passionate about learning, with high-comfort in learning about new content areas, design frameworks, and approaches to the work
• Ability to travel across the country up to 50% of the time

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Hiring

At Instruction Partners, we know that difference enhances, transforms and strengthens our ability to serve students and schools. We invite and celebrate diversity of all perspectives, and we are deeply committed to ensuring equitable access and voice throughout our organization. Instruction Partners is proudly an equal opportunity workplace, and we value the inclusion of persons who have experienced poverty and/or for whom English is not their first language, and every race, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, culture, ancestry, religion, national orientation, age, marital status or Veteran status. Join us, and let's work together to support great teaching and accelerate learning for every student.

Compensation:

The salary for this role is $143,750.00. Detailed information about the organizational compensation philosophy can be given upon request. Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options are available, as well as a generous vacation policy. See our detailed benefits package here: 2023-2024 Benefits in Brief Overview.

Our Vision

All students experience an excellent education that prepares them to contribute to their community, achieve economic security, and pursue their dreams.

Our Mission

We strengthen instructional leadership in schools, school systems, and states to ensure teachers have the support they need to improve learning experiences and learning outcomes for students - with attention to students of color, students experiencing poverty, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities.

How We Work

Instruction Partners is a nonprofit organization dedicated to excellent instruction for all students, with a focus on students in poverty, students with disabilities, students learning English, and students of color. We keep one foot in practicality and the other in evidence-based best practices, because we believe that leveraging high-quality, grade-level content and providing just-in-time supports will accelerate learning for all students.

Instruction Partners spends time getting to know the needs of the educators, leaders, and systems it serves, allowing the team to custom-build service plans to support partner goals. Partnerships include on-the-ground support, and partnership team members serve as thought partners to the school systems they serve, a team educators can reach out to and feel supported by.

Instruction Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Instruction Partners complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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