Managing Director of School Partnerships - K12 Coalition : Job Details

About K12 Coalition

K12 Coalition provides products and services that help K-12 schools and teachers achieve transformational learning outcomes. We tackle many of today's toughest education obstacles, including teacher recruitment and retention, student learning acceleration, ongoing teacher coaching and development, long-range strategic planning, and school equity audits. K12 Coalition came together when educators with deep experience as teachers, school leaders and high-level district administrators observed a genuine need for something better. Our divisions include iteach, Teaching Channel, Insight Education Group and Lavinia Group.

About Lavinia Group

Founded in 2015, Lavinia Group closes the opportunity gap by helping our partner schools achieve world-class literacy and math instruction through exceptional leader and teacher training. As former teachers, school leaders and administrators, we know the key to excellent student outcomes is to invest directly in the professional development of educators. We provide our client partners with hands-on, immersive, side-by-side guidance so that schools build the capacity and capabilities to sustain their gains long after working with us.

Location: Remote with 40% of travel

Office and Travel: This role requires about 40% travel, which includes travel to client sites, meetings to build new partnerships, and conferences. We estimate the travel at about 8 days per month with seasonal highs and lows. There is no central Lavinia Group office, so the Managing Director will work from home when traveling.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Vice President of School Partnerships, the Managing Director of School Partnerships manages a focused strategy to achieve excellent outcomes across a diverse portfolio of network and school partnerships. They manage a team of consultants to deliver exceptional teacher and leader development in service of ensuring world-class, culturally responsive learning for students across the country. The Managing Director will oversee a variety of partnerships requiring skills in strategy development and implementation, data driven outcomes, management of others, leading adaptive change, and business development. They will manage a portfolio of district and school partnerships to meet or exceed impact and revenue goals and will work closely with the Vice President of School Partnerships and the Programs Team to ensure there is a robust pipeline of partnerships seeking to implement Lavinia Group's core instructional model. The Managing Director will drive outcomes aligned to Lavinia Group's theory of action, strategic plan and organizational mission. This senior-level position sits on the Schools Leadership Team, which is charged with the success and health of all school partnerships.

What You'll Do

Leading for Impact: Portfolio Management

* Oversee a portfolio of large, complex partnerships to achieve excellent student outcomes

* Build strong, trusting relationships with all stakeholders and leverage relationships to build capacity and drive towards outcomes

* Actively monitor progress towards goals and creatively intervene when projects are off-track to drive towards outcomes

* Boldy invite and lead discussions about diversity, equity and inclusion that lead to disruption of historical patterns of inequity

* Provide direct service delivery to selected partnerships

Team Mentoring, Performance Management and Talent Development

* Manage, develop, evaluate, and retain a diverse team of consultants in the oversight of their partnerships in order to achieve excellent student outcomes and business expansion

* Provide on-the-ground and differentiated coaching to consultant team members and ensure each consultant is developing new skills to effectively lead partners

* Ensure ongoing talent management, bench building and career development across teams

Partnership and Business Development

* Develop and maintain strategic relationships with national, state, district and other national education influencers

* Write proposals and serve as executive sponsor for RFPs

* Attend and present at national conferences and be fluent in Lavinia Group's core instructional model and curriculum products

* Actively pursue new partnerships to support business development

* Actively monitor feedback related to the delivery of services offered by Lavinia Group in order to maintain high quality and provide strategic advisement to the Program Team for new product development

Fiscal and Resource Management

* Oversee and drive revenue generation within portfolio with clear revenue targets

* Effectively oversee budget management for philanthropic, organizational and fee-for-service contracts within portfolio

* Forecast staffing needs across portfolio and work with other senior leaders to make staffing decisions, balancing field needs and financial sustainability

* Utilize and maintain systems for deploying full-time staff and consultants

* Manage financial and human resources to meet or exceed impact and revenue goals

Who You Are

You are a relationship builder and people leader - You have experience mentoring and leading others at all levels of the organization to reach successful results. You know that relationships matter and you are committed to supporting internal clients.

You show ownership and take initiative - With exceptional consultative skills, you are highly motivated, known as a team player and self-starter.

You shine as an independent problem-solver - You own your projects, contribute to a big-picture vision, solve problems proactively and think flexibly. You welcome feedback and apply it to future work. You take pride in meeting deadlines and your ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

You take pride in maintaining a high bar of excellence - With your attention to detail and ability to navigate ambiguity, you deliver excellence with incredibly high standards. You have an ability to envision the bigger picture.

You are strategic and solutions-oriented - You demonstrate outstanding strategic thinking skills, including the ability to make meaning of unclear and sometimes opposing priorities, to advise and move a client forward in work that maximizes their impact on student achievement.

Qualifications

* An accomplished leader with a minimum of 8-10 years of senior management experience in the K-12 district, charter, or non-profit space

* A track record of leading teams to achieve strong academic outcomes for students at scale, with a vision for instructional excellence

* Experience leading teams of 10 or more to achieve and exceed targeted goals

* Superior written and verbal communication skills

Why Work with Us

We offer a wide variety of benefits, including flexible time off, parental leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401K.

Compensation range for this position: $170,000-$210,000

As part of our commitment to pay equity, new hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the salary band minimum and the salary band midpoint depending on qualifications, location, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the role.

Our Selection Process

Our selection process typically includes an online application, short phone interview, hiring manager interview, candidate exercise, final interview and reference check.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Commitment to Diversity

At K12 Coalition, we are driven to build and sustain a culture of respect, belonging and inclusion. Our DEI committee includes team members across the company that drive grassroots change through affiliated team resource groups, unconscious bias training, and Equity Triads for continuous dialogue.

We operate with the deep belief that our world, our schools, and our team are made stronger by respecting, listening to, and amplifying the voices of the communities we serve and the world around us. Therefore, our curricular offerings, our work as a team, and our work with schools, reflect a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We aspire to deliver services, products, and practices that are deeply rooted in equity for all children. We are committed to building a diverse team to contribute to this work.

We will extend equal employment opportunity to all applicants without regard to age, race, ethnicity, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic background, disability status, military affiliation, pregnancy or any other status protected under federal, state and local laws. We encourage all who share our mission to apply.

K12 Coalition will provide reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process. If you need additional accommodations or assistance, do not hesitate to contact our HR team directly at [email protected].