at The College Board in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
About College BoardCollege Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world's leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education. Each year, College Board helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college through programs and services in college readiness and college success-including the SAT®, the Advanced Placement® Program, and BigFuture®. The organization also serves the education community through research and advocacy on behalf of students, educators, and schools.
About Career Kickstart
Career Kickstart expands the successful AP model to the career and technical education (CTE) space, by offering schools a new set of career-oriented high school courses that provide students with relevant, high-quality instruction and experiences that lead to industry-recognized credentials and college credit, and ultimately, power students' progress to in-demand jobs in high-growth sectors and choice-filled lives.
We are in the early stages of building this program and have a start-up culture.
About the Opportunity
As Director of Career Kickstart Pilot Partnerships, you'll help lead recruitment efforts in schools, districts, and states to introduce and test Career Kickstart: a set of CTE courses - starting with a cybersecurity pathway - that comes with instructional supports and year-end assessments. You're passionate about bringing high-quality CTE opportunities to all students, and demonstrated experience doing this in the field, preferably in the west coast. A dynamic role, core to our success, you'll own recruiting pilot participants and managing implementation and learning in 10 states. You'll work with a cross-functional group to reach overall pilot goals and support successful program implementation. This includes training internal and external stakeholders on the program.
The Career Kickstart team is a team of ten, and this person will be joining a smaller team of three within that team. State assignments will be divided based on expertise and past experience. The Director will need to be open to spending considerable in-person time recruiting schools/districts on west coast, including California.
In this role, you will:
Educate:
- Meet with state and district CTE leaders in your assigned states to outline the new Career Kickstart program and explore how it potentially could support their state and local CTE goals
- Develop and deliver presentations to best communicate CK features and benefit for our customers
- Collaborate with cross-functional state teams at College Board, and train staff on Career Kickstart to enable them to prioritize, recruit and implement the program
Recruit:
- Recruit schools and districts to participate in both courses of our cybersecurity pathway, and our next pathway pilots
- Build strategic stakeholder relationships across states to support the program's growth over time
- Represent the program at national and state-specific CTE events to support recruitment efforts
Engage:
- Develop and maintain a stakeholder engagement strategy that includes regular communication, collaboration, and feedback mechanisms
- Be persuasive in convincing needed stakeholders of the program's quality, using data and logic as well as your understanding of their goals
Iterate:
- Work with program and product staff to make updates and changes to the program based on feedback from the field
- Collaborate with cross-functional College Board team to integrate program into existing priorities
- Analyze recruitment metrics to identify patterns and develop strategies to improve
About you
- Substantial experience working with high schools, educators, and students to implement CTE programs and courses
- A demonstrated track record of building and leading programs to meet ambitious goals
- An authentic commitment to the voice of the educator and the student - manifested in the ways you routinely engage these stakeholders to gauge satisfaction, receive input, and inform strategy
- Exceptional organizational abilities - you get energy out of establishing processes and systems to successfully implement projects with multiple moving parts
- Comfortable with ambiguity, eager to make changes as context shifts around you, and work cross-functionally to get things done
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including experience presenting and facilitating meetings (remotely and in-person)
- Proven ability to build relationships and influence others to actionand experience building and managing long-term relationships with outside partners
- A tendency to take initiative outside your formal responsibilities when the team needs you
- Excellent PowerPoint and good Word and Excel skills is a plus
- The ability to travel 8-10 times a year to our NYC officeand state meetings
- This role can be remote, but living in West Coast is preferred
- You are eligible to work in the US for any employer
About Our Process
Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise and/or panel interview, and reference checks. This is an approximately 8-week process.
About Our Benefits and Compensation
College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.
The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $80,000 to $135,000. College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.
Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.
Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:
- A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
- Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
- A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive
- You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process
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