Partner, Network Learning and Development
Start Date: Immediate
Role Type: Full time
Location: Flexible -- Fully remote/virtual team
Travel: Willingness to travel up to 25-30%, assuming safe to do so
Who We Are:
Transcend’s mission is to support communities to create and spread extraordinary, equitable learning environments. Founded in 2015, Transcend has partnered with over 200 schools and 50 systems which collectively serve nearly 500,000 students in 30 states across the country. As a research and development (R&D) hub for the education field, Transcend provides schools and systems with research-backed, community-driven models, resources, and capacity so they can make significant leaps to reimagine the future of education. Transcend is a nonprofit that operates with a fully remote, nationwide team.
For more information, visit our website; follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter; or check out this recent podcast featuring our two co-founders on Class Disrupted.
The Opportunity:
The Partner, Network Learning and Development has a unique opportunity to help Transcend create systemic change that’s required for all communities to be able to pursue the creation of extraordinary, equitable learning environments. In this role, you will design, plan, orchestrate, and at times, directly facilitate powerful adult learning experiences with and for ecosystem leaders. These include funders, system leaders (district superintendents, charter leaders, and their leadership teams), policy influencers, and leaders of other influential organizations. The learning experiences you create will elevate insights, voices, perspectives, and practical resources from Transcend’s direct work with school communities. Often, this will happen in role-alike groups where ecosystem leaders can also discuss key issues on their mind and reflect openly together. When successful, your work will meaningfully grow ecosystem leaders’ understandings, mindsets, and ultimately actions in support of equitable innovation across school communities.
Specific responsibilities include:
Strategize creative and engaging learning opportunities for targeted ecosystem leaders
Craft and design experiences -- including associated materials -- that respond to the needs of participants, leverage Transcend’s current work and resources, and elevate community voice
Plan and coordinate the execution of events, including assembling (and prepping) the right set of facilitators as well as ensuring smooth operations
At times, directly facilitate learning experiences, where appropriate
Analyze and organize feedback from sessions to improve and iterate
Collaborate closely with leaders across Transcend -- as well as other partner organizations -- on all of the above
This role will work closely with leaders of Transcend’s FIELD team -- including the heads of Development and External Communications, Partnerships, and Organizational Learning -- and also with Transcend’s co-CEOs.
Who You Are:
First and foremost you are passionate about educational equity, and believe that working together as a sector is critical to sparking and sustaining meaningful change! You are an inspiring and clear communicator, with a knack for making meaningful connections and building lasting relationships. You are fascinated by the work of school redesign and innovation, and are endlessly curious about how we can and should “do school” better to achieve more extraordinary and equitable results. You are masterful at crafting and planning adult learning experiences that can uniquely engage a range of audiences. You are adept at using your creativity to design innovative, out-of-the-box adult learning sessions and materials that are customized to your audience, informative, and inspire others to take meaningful action. You are also deeply collaborative, both internally and externally.
As the first hire in this brand-new role, you are a trailblazer and equally energized by collaborating with others as you are by working independently to drive a strategy that is new and at times ambiguous.
You have strong organizational and project management skills, and enjoy seeing tasks through from idea to event to iteration. You have a roll-up-the-sleeves, get-it-done type attitude and put your all into everything from planning guest lists, to designing sessions, to prepping facilitators, to even facilitating yourself! You are nimble and believe that the learning doesn’t end when the “curtain closes” but instead understand that each experience is an opportunity to iterate and adapt. You are adept at collecting feedback, making meaning of it, and continuously learning and building better.
You have a track record of creating powerful learning experiences for senior leaders. Ideally, you also have some experience with a range of organizations in the field of k-12, and you are comfortable engaging at a variety of levels and in a variety of methods.
Lastly, you love that your everyday work is in service to a mission that matters. You believe deeply in the power of education to change lives and elevate voices that have been marginalized for too long, and you can’t wait to contribute your talents and passion to this work.
To all of this, you bring:
A commitment to Transcend’s mission of transforming education, with a passion for creating extraordinary and equitable learning environments
A commitment to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion in your approach to partnerships development
Experience in designing transformative professional learning for small and large groups of educators, including senior leaders in the field
Ability to manage multiple projects that move quickly; multitasking and prioritizing effectively.
Hunger for feedback and growth based on a personal commitment to excellence and constant learning – thriving on feedback from multiple sources, and fast-cycle iteration to arrive at the best possible product.
Ability to effectively build and nurture strong relationships and communications with a diverse range of stakeholders and at all levels of the organization, including Transcend teammates, independent contractors, partners, and other folks in the field.
A willingness to travel up to 25-30% of the time to represent Transcend at events and visit partners when it is safe to do so
Eagerness to embrace and live into Transcend’s core values
Perks and Benefits
Transcend is committed to providing our colleagues with a competitive benefits package. Transcend offers medical, dental and vision coverage options, org-wide holidays, paid time off, paid parental leave, professional development opportunities, and fully remote work. We're also proud of our values-grounded, equity-focused, and fun(!) work environment, incredible colleagues, and a dedication to our work and each other. We are open to a range of experience profiles for this role. Early in our process, we will ensure that the salary band for the role based on your experience level and location is aligned with your expectations.
Join Us!
Transcend is an equal opportunity employer. We are building a diverse team that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.