Senior Director, Custom Strategy Consultant

Summary

Join Instruction Partners as a Senior Director, Custom Strategy Consulting! This full-time, remote position (with up to 50% national travel) focuses on designing new service lines related to strategic staffing and curriculum-based professional learning/high-quality instructional materials (CBPL/HQIM). You will lead projects, manage consulting clients, and contribute to organizational strategy. The role requires significant experience in K-12 education, instructional leadership, and consulting, along with a commitment to anti-racist leadership. Competitive benefits and a generous salary are offered. Instruction Partners is dedicated to improving education for all students, particularly those in priority groups.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Salary: $143,750.00
• Competitive benefits
• Private retirement investment options
• Generous vacation policy