Director, School Partnerships & Education Impact

Eat.Learn.Play; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Eat. Learn. Play.

seeks a Director, School Partnerships to lead school investments with OUSD in Oakland, shaping a practical, measurable plan for elementary schools. This senior role drives strategy, coordination with educators and partners, and the translation of impact goals into action. You will build plans, coordinate a budget over $4M, manage implementation partners, and collaborate with district and community stakeholders to advance literacy, nutrition, and high-quality play.

Qualifications

• Substantial, progressively responsible experience in K-12 education, education nonprofits, philanthropy, or district partnerships, including direct experience in schools or districts.
• Proven experience implementing school- or district-level initiatives, in partnership with principals, educators, and central office leaders.
• Leadership experience in school improvement, partnership management, or education strategy.
• Track record managing complex initiatives with multiple partners, workstreams, timelines, and strategic tradeoffs.
• Experience owning a multimillion-dollar program budget and managing contractors, consultants, or vendors to deliver results within it.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build credibility with educators, district leaders, community partners, and executives.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and relevant data or project management tools.
• Discretion with sensitive information and enthusiasm for ELP’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Translate ELP’s Whole Child, Whole School approach into a practical model for how the Foundation invests in a select group of OUSD elementary schools, including how schools are selected, how plans come together, and how the work actually gets done.
• Bring ELP’s programmatic investments into one coherent plan at each school, so the pieces reinforce one another.
• Iterate on the model based on what implementation teaches us, codifying what works into a replicable approach that can grow to additional schools.
• Define what a strong ELP–OUSD school partnership looks like, and the enabling conditions, literacy strategies, and whole-child supports that shape student learning and experience.
• Collaborate across the Impact team with the Managing Director, Impact & Advocacy and the Director, Impact Investments to keep school partnership work aligned with ELP’s broader impact and advocacy strategy.
• Build school-level plans with clear goals, activities, milestones, and owners, developed alongside school leaders.
• Partner with the OUSD Data team and ELP’s Director, Impact Investments to define what success looks like at each school and build the measurement approach and feedback loops to guide decisions, surface problems early, and adjust strategy and tactics.
• Drive multiple workstreams and outside partners toward the same milestones, keeping timelines, decisions, and accountabilities clear.
• Own a program budget of more than $4 million.
• With the Impact team, select and manage the implementation partners, contractors and consultants who deliver the work, setting scopes and expectations and holding them to results.
• Anticipate the realities of school life, from bell schedules to mid-year staffing changes, etc., to build plans that hold up inside a real school environment.
• Navigate ambiguity in a young, fast-moving program and keep the team focused on what matters most for kids.
• Build trust with principals, educators, community school managers, central office leaders, families and partners by showing up consistently and following through.
• Drive success of ELP programmatic work by supporting partners in a variety of ways besides funder, such as convener, implementor, and thought partner.
• Represent ELP’s Impact work to funders, partners, community stakeholders, and others.

Skills

K-12 education experience

Education partnerships

Program management

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Facilitation & communication

MS Office

Discretion & mission alignment

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Eat. Learn. Play.

seeks a Director, School Partnerships to lead school investments with OUSD in Oakland, shaping a practical, measurable plan for elementary schools. This senior role drives strategy, coordination with educators and partners, and the translation of impact goals into action. You will build plans, coordinate a budget over $4M, manage implementation partners, and collaborate with district and community stakeholders to advance literacy, nutrition, and high-quality play.