Senior Manager, Engagement and Implementation

Collegenext; California (MO); Remote; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Collegenext seeks a Senior Manager, Engagement and Implementation to enhance K-12 partnerships across California. The successful candidate will lead district engagements, support college and career planning tools of CaliforniaColleges.edu while fostering relationships within the education community. This fully remote position involves strategic guidance, exceptional communication skills, and proactive problem-solving to navigate the educational landscape, ensuring equitable access to resources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong background in supporting students with college and career planning.
• Preferred relationships with K-12 educators and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of assigned school districts and serve as the primary liaison.
• Provide ongoing support and facilitate partnerships with districts.
• Employ data-informed practices to track outcomes of outreach.

Skills

Strong facilitation skills

Ability to communicate complex information

Data-informed practices

Proactive problem-solving

Strong relationships with K-12 educators

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Senior Manager, Engagement and Implementation

California, Remote

Posted: 5/9/2025

The California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) is seeking an effective collaborator and experienced educator to join the Northern California/Bay Area regional Engagement and Implementation team that supports Partner Districts to effectively implement CaliforniaColleges.edu. See this Regional Map for an approximate view of the counties served within the area.

The Senior Manager, Engagement & Implementation manages a portfolio of assigned school districts within their region and serves as the primary liaison to those districts’ CCGI leads. Through strong relationship building, strategic guidance, and skilled facilitation, the Senior Manager plays a critical collaborative role in the regional effort to drive K-12 district partnerships and ongoing, effective utilization of the college and career planning tools on CaliforniaColleges.edu.

The ideal candidate possesses a solid understanding of K-12 educator needs and priorities, strong background in supporting students with college and career planning, and can confidently articulate the role of CaliforniaColleges.edu in closing opportunity gaps for underserved students in California to a wide spectrum of K-12 educational leaders, practitioners, and stakeholders. This position reports directly to the Director, Engagement & Implementation for the Northern California/Bay Area region. The ideal candidate currently resides in the area and possesses strong relationships with K-12 educators in the region.

We work to solve large scale, system-level problems. You must be comfortable working with unknowns and ambiguous solutions, as well as passionate about promoting public education and advancing educational equity.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Provide strategic guidance to educators implementing the systematic use of CaliforniaColleges.edu in their district.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for districts as it relates to partnership and platform utilization and maintain relationships with districts within a region.
• Provide ongoing, high quality, and dynamic support to Partner Districts to drive utilization of CaliforniaColleges.edu:
  • Offer exceptional support to district points of contact to bolster implementation efforts.
  • Regularly interact with educators by answering questions about the platform and connecting them to CCGI supports and resources where appropriate.
  • Serve as primary liaison for the districts within your region, as assigned.
• Play a critical role in CCGI’s outreach efforts to establish partnerships with new districts:
  • Support exploratory conversations with individual districts.
  • Educate district stakeholders about CaliforniaColleges.edu and its functionalities in order to prepare for partnership.
• Employ data-informed practices to track outcomes of outreach and engagement support on districts’ utilization of CaliforniaColleges.edu.
• This is a remote position that requires a quiet home office space with some travel. Regular daytime travel and in-person attendance at events and meetings within the region to align with the needs of the institutions in the region. All mileage is reimbursable.

What Technical Skills Do You Need?

• Strong facilitation skills in high stakes environments
• Ability to effectively and clearly communicate complex information orally and in writing
• Understanding of and experience with systematic implementation of college and career related work with students and within K-12 system
• Experience working in either a K-12, higher education institution, college access organization, or other educational services organizations
• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of relevant experience
• Relationships with K-12 educators, Partners, organizational leaders, and other stakeholders within the region preferred
• K-12 PPS, teaching and/or administrative credential is preferred
• Experience with Salesforce preferred, or similar Customer Relationship Management tool

What Intangibles Do You Need?

• Flexible, adaptable, self-directed and proactive problem-solver
• Excellent professional judgment
• Ability to engage educators in a way that relates to their needs/interests and develop buy in
• Ability to successfully navigate complex dynamics as an external collaborator with districts
• Ability to establish and maintain external partnerships/relationships

More about CCGI

The California College Guidance Initiative (CCGI) works to ensure that all 6th-12th grade students in California have access to a systematic baseline of guidance and support as they plan, prepare, and pay for postsecondary education and training.

This baseline is provided by CaliforniaColleges.edu, which provides California students and educators with a wide range of college and career planning information and tools. The site also houses, audits, and transmits student data to help ensure more accurate and efficient decisions regarding admissions, financial aid, and course placement. CCGI provides technical assistance, support, and training to K-12 school districts in order to support students, counselors, and parents with the systematic use of CaliforniaColleges.edu, including its transcript-informed tools.

CCGI forms the core of the college planning and application tools in California’s newly launched Cradle-to-Career System. Over the next few years, the Cradle-to-Career System will scale CCGI so that all California 6th-12th grade students can have free access to our transcript-informed tools.

CCGI is a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. At our core, we prioritize the needs of students above all else. Everyone at CCGI works remotely from home offices. We are all located in various parts of California and make use of tools, such as ZOOM, Slack, and Salesforce, to communicate and document our work. While some people regularly travel locally and/or statewide for required business meetings, we only occasionally conduct internal meetings in person.

CCGI is housed at the Foundation for California Community Colleges but is an autonomous initiative with its own mission, goals, and executive leadership team.