Portfolio Manager, Exceptional Educators

Overdeck Family Foundation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 113,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Overdeck Family Foundation in the United States seeks a full-time Portfolio Manager to lead the Exceptional Educators portfolio, focusing on retaining effective K-9 educators and scaling impactful ventures.

Reporting to the Associate Program Director, you will refine investment strategy, build relationships across the education ecosystem, and use a scientific approach to support early-stage and growth-stage grantees, with 10–20% travel.

Responsibilities

• Refine and clarify the investment strategy for the Exceptional Educators portfolio.
• Build and nurture relationships across the K-9 ecosystem with a focus on empowering educators.
• Apply a scientific method to hypothesize and sharpen strategies to support early-stage and growth-stage ventures to scale, cost effectively and sustainably.
• Travel 10–20% of the time for grantee site visits, conferences, and funder meetings.

Job description

Overdeck Family Foundation (“the Foundation”) was founded in 2011 by John and Laura Overdeck with the goal of providing all children the opportunity to unlock their potential. The Foundation focuses exclusively on enhancing education, funding efforts both inside and outside of school in the areas of early childhood, informal STEM education, and K-9 programs that include supporting educators and student-centered learning environments. Our grantmaking and strategic support focus on unlocking innovation, evidence, and growth opportunities for organizations and researchers that are committed to accelerating key academic and socioemotional outcomes for all children. The Foundation funds both direct impact organizations and ecosystem efforts that clear the path to scale for our grantees and the work that they do.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Exceptional Educators portfolio within the Foundation focuses on increasing the retention of effective educators in K-9 so that more children have access to teachers who empower them to reach their full potential.

The Foundation is seeking a full-time Portfolio Manager to lead the Exceptional Educators portfolio. Reporting to the Associate Program Director, and managing an Associate Program Officer, the Portfolio Manager will work collaboratively to refine and clarify the investment strategy for the portfolio, build and nurture relationships across the K-9 ecosystem (with a primary focus on empowering educators), and use a scientific method approach to hypothesize and sharpen strategies to support early stage and growth stage ventures to scale, cost effectively and sustainably, to improve academic and socioemotional outcomes for kids. Given the nature of this work, the Portfolio Manager should expect 10-20 percent of this role to include travel for grantee site visits, conferences, and funder meetings.

Visit www.overdeck.org for more information. To learn more about our Exceptional Educators portfolio, visit the websites of some of our partner organizations: Teaching Lab, EdReports.org, Leading Educators, and Public Impact’s Opportunity Culture.

COMPENSATION

The base pay for this role is anticipated to be between $112,500 and $165,000.