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SchoolHouse Connection, Senior Director, Strategic Execution

United States · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$152k-$190kDetected 6 days ago

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About the role

SchoolHouse Connection (SHC) is entering a new phase of growth.
This role is ideal for a strategic systems-minded organizational leader who excels at bringing clarity to complexity, helping leaders make thoughtful tradeoffs, and enabling others to succeed.

Impact over process: Builds systems and operating rhythms that enable better outcomes, knowing when more structure is needed, when less is needed, and why.
Relationship-centered leadership: Builds trust through humility, respect, discretion, transparency, and alignment with the organization's values.
Experience serving as a strategic partner to an Executive Director, CEO, Chief Operating Officer, or equivalent executive leader.
Experience building organizational operating systems and management infrastructure in growing organizations.
High emotional intelligence and the ability to build trust, navigate ambiguity, and strengthen relationships across diverse teams.
Exceptional facilitation and consensus-building skills.
Ability to build practical systems that people actually use.
Maintain visibility across programs, policy and advocacy, communications, operations, and emerging initiatives to identify misalignment, duplication, capacity constraints, and execution risks before they affect progress.
Build shared visibility into organizational priorities, ownership, dependencies, timelines, and progress to strengthen alignment and coordination across teams.
Develop and maintain practical operating systems, planning tools, and dashboards that increase transparency, strengthen execution, and support better decision-making without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.

Experience designing and leading planning processes, operating rhythms, and progress-monitoring systems.
Experience leading teams through growth, change, or increased complexity.
Strong understanding of nonprofit operating models, capacity constraints, and cross-functional coordination.
Experience balancing organizational agility with disciplined execution.
Strong judgment and facilitation skills, including the ability to frame options, tradeoffs, and recommendations for senior leaders.
Ability to influence without relying on supervisory authority.
Ability to identify organizational patterns, capacity constraints, and execution risks before they become problems.
Comfort navigating difficult conversations that improve organizational effectiveness.

Translate annual goals into coordinated execution plans by aligning work across teams, identifying dependencies, and sequencing initiatives for maximum impact.
Build and lead the systems that enable organizational execution Design, lead, and continuously improve SHC's core planning and management processes, including annual retreats, quarterly planning, leadership meetings, progress reviews, and cross-functional planning cycles that keep the organization aligned and moving forward.
This position is full-time, offers a competitive salary range of $152,000 - $190,000, and robust benefits including work from home, flexible schedule (with occasional required travel), generous leave, he

ORGANIZATION Founded in 2016, SchoolHouse Connection (SHC) is the nation's leading nonprofit dedicated to overcoming homelessness through early care and education.
Together, they are working toward a future where every child and young person experiencing homelessness has access to high-quality education and the opportunity to achieve lasting stability.

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