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Job Opportunity: The Broad Foundation
The K12 Search Group, Inc "is a retained executive search firm (headed by a former Broad Foundation employee) designed to serve the needs of the growing entrepreneurial K-12 education sector."
What a term: entrepreneurial K-12 education sector captures the chasm between what teachers do and what the Broad Foundation wants them to do.
Besides the Broad Foundation, their clients include:
KIPP
DC Prep
Bright Star Schools
ICEF Public Schools
Uplift Education (interesting board of directors
Mastery Charter School
Pacific Charter School Development (whose partners include Aspire, Green Dot, ICEF, KIPP, PUC)
Job Opening
Senior Director - Cities, Systems and Tools
OPPORTUNITY
The primary role of the Senior Director – Cities, Systems and Tools is to oversee
the Foundation’s investment strategy to transform large urban school districts
through a set of integrated and targeted initiatives. These reform initiatives are
focused in the areas of systems redesign and human capital and development
and scaling of high quality charter management organizations. The Senior
Director will be responsible for managing a staff of six and a $40 million portfolio
of investments—the largest portfolio in the Foundation. Some of the exciting
investments in the portfolio include:
• Building teacher incentive pay systems in New York City, Houston and
Denver
• Transforming human resource operations in New York City, Chicago and
Boston
• Scaling high quality charter management organizations including: New
Schools New Orleans, KIPP, Green Dot, Aspire, Alliance, NYC – UFT and
Uncommon Schools
• Providing early significant seed money to new charter management
organizations through New Schools Venture Fund and the Charter School
Growth Fund
• Developing and supporting principal leadership academies in Long Beach,
Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Chicago
• Supporting district transformation in New York City, Oakland and
Washington, DC
The Senior Director—Cities, Systems and Tools will report to the Managing
Director of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
RESPONSIBILITES
The successful candidate will be expected to:
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of five full-time staff, including a
Senior Director, a Director, two Associate Directors, and a Program
Assistant
• Manage a portfolio of grants based on Foundations policies and practices
• Reach specific grant commitment targets annually
• Present strategy and investment recommendations to Founder, Eli Broad,
Board of Trustees, and Foundation leadership.
• Coordinate team to seek and evaluate new grant opportunities based on
Foundation priorities
• Be the principal Foundation contact with executives at grantee
organizations
• Represent the Foundation at relevant conferences, meetings, networking
events, and other engagements
• Identify opportunities and facilitate cross-team collaboration at the
Foundation
• Be an active member of the senior management of the Foundation, actively
engaging in projects, meetings, and improvement processes
• Engage the communications team to develop a communications strategy
for the portfolio to showcase success and share learning
• Identify grantee organizations and initiatives with the potential to support
TBF policy priorities and collaborate with the Policy Team on specific
projects.
• Support the Foundation’s Research and Evaluation function by developing
and implementing assessment mechanisms for each grant in the portfolio,
and develop and refine investment hypotheses based on analysis of grant
outcomes.
• Be current on leading challenges, issues, new thinking and personalities in
the major urban school districts that are relevant to achieving the mission
of the Foundation.
QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate will have:
• Ten or more years of professional work experience, with significant senior
management experience—P&L responsibility, portfolio management,
business development
• A track record of successfully leading people and teams
• Management or instructional experience in K-12 education with a deep
grasp of K-12 issues
• Strong analytical capabilities and the analytical capacity to understand
small or large, complex organizations and the ability to conceptualize,
conceive, coordinate, manage, implement, and evaluate projects
• Ability to devise workable scenarios for bringing initiatives to scale
• Superb writing skills
• The energy and perseverance necessary to find opportunities for highleverage
investments, and the judgment and organizational savvy required
to assess the probability of success of the ideas, the people, and the
organizations to implement them
• Influence and negotiation skills to ensure that high impact grants are
approved by Founder, Eli Broad and the Board of Trustees and supported
by Cities Team and Foundation staff
• The personal presence and communication skills to represent the
Foundation in diverse forums and organizational relationships
• Demonstrated personal commitment to the cause of improving urban public
education systems coupled with the determination to find creative ways to
improve upon traditional structures.
• Experience working in a start-up, entrepreneurial, and/or fast-paced
environment preferred
• The ability to commit to 25-35% travel
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree with an MBA, MPP or JD highly
preferred
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact:
Mollie Mitchell
The K12 Search Group, Inc.
mmitchell@k12searchgroup.
— Job Search
Broad Foundation
2008-05-09
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