• Job Description

  Req#: B020155

  The Foundation

  We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

  The Team

  The vision for the foundation’s US education work is to ensure that all students in the US have access to educational opportunities, from Pre-K to postsecondary, that enable them to develop the knowledge, skills, and agency needed thrive as adults and contribute to their communities. Within K-12 education, the foundation focuses on math and – given the opportunity gaps – specifically focuses on increasing the number of Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds (“priority students”) who are prepared for and complete Algebra 1 by the 9th grade, so they can be ready and able to progress through higher level math in high school and beyond.
  
  The foundation aims to improve math education in this country by increasing the quality of instructional materials so that they are more motivating and engaging for students – particularly priority students – and ensuring that teachers have high-quality supports to use those materials well. Our investments reach nationally, but we also focus within four states: California, Florida, New York, and Texas given the large populations of priority students in those states.

  Your Role

  You will develop and manage a portfolio of investments to advance our joint Early Learning and K-12 strategy to scale the availability and use of aligned, high-quality instructional materials in PreK-Grade 3 for math instruction.

  You will serve as a key K-12 advisor on K-5 (elementary) math and specific considerations for product design, PL, adoption and implementation of early math curriculum and professional learning offerings.

  You’ll leverage an understanding of the overall education landscape and market data on adoption to inform and evaluate and refine investment hypotheses specific to Early Elementary Math. Your synthesized learnings from your investments will be used to inform adjustments to our strategic approaches. You’ll coordinate your investment strategy with others within the US Program and K-12 Education team to ensure our work lands coherently for maximum strategic impact in our focus states

  What You’ll Do

  MANAGE RELATIONSHIPS & INVESTMENTS WITH KEY INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROVIDERS (75%)

  • Work through Partners to shape the market: Identify strategies and key partners that help shift the K-12 education product offerings to higher quality choices
  • Work through Partners to Improve Product Quality: Manage partners with quality instructional materials and professional learning offerings to further improve their products aligned with emerging learning from R&D partnerships and other quality improvement efforts.
  • Investment Management: Negotiate, execute, and manage complex portfolio of investments. Review proposals and provide clear, concise, and insightful written analyses and recommendations for funding.
  • Partner Management: Consult with grantees and other partners to improve impact of projects and ensure investments are meeting strategy goals. This may include site visits, providing operational guidance, and convening meetings of key partners.
  • External Leadership: Represent the foundation to key program-related external constituencies, as appropriate, on committees related to area of expertise and responsibilities of the position.

  SYNTHESIZE LEARNING FROM INVESTMENTS (25%)

  • Knowledge Management: Regularly review progress from your investments, synthesize learning, and share with others or through knowledge management system.
  • Performance Management: Represent synthesized learning and evidence from partner and investment strategy in internal strategy and progress discussions; recommend adjustments to investment strategy when warranted.

  Your Experience

  • Deep knowledge of teaching and learning in Elementary Math
  • Experience developing and implementing Professional Learning to support PreK-Grade 3 educators
  • Knowledge of education market: curricula, interventions, and assessment markets, publishers, developers, professional learning providers etc.
  • Knowledge of adoption, commercial sales cycles, and distribution channels
  • Understanding of curricula solutions enactment and impact on behavior
  • Background in dimensions of quality and their measurement
  • Commitment to a vision of product efficacy and quality centered on the assets of Black and Latino students and those experiencing poverty
  • Knowledge of instructional materials and teacher practice, and how those can be combined through professional learning to result in better teaching and learning.
  • Knowledge of professional learning market dynamics, including how districts and schools purchase professional learning.
  • Exhibited commitment to and ability around inclusive design and equity-centered approaches to investing.
  • Exhibited commitment to and ability around engaging organizations and leaders who are proximate to the work.
  • Advanced degree with 7+ years of experience, or equivalent experience. Experience in K-12 preferred.
  • Recognized internally and externally by the professional community as an expert within a particular specialized field.
  • Proven ability to influence others in a constructive manner and to build and sustain collaborative relationships.

  Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

  The salary range for this role is $182,600 to $283,100 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $199,000 to $308,400 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

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  Hiring Requirements

  As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

  Candidate Accommodations

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  Inclusion Statement

  We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

  All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.

• About the company

  We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual. We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young m...

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