Director, Creating Conditions for Impact

Creating Conditions For Impact Team Leadership

Lead the vision and strategy for the Creating Conditions for Impact Team, ensuring alignment with the Dana Centers mission and strategic goals around systemic level improvements in math, science, and early literacy. Lead the design and execution of initiatives in math, science, and literacy education that remove barriers for students and shape policy foundations, foster connections across PK-12, higher education, and workforce preparation systems to support alignment and transformation. Guide the team in cultivating and sustaining professional networks that foster collaboration, innovation, and shared accountability across systems. Ensure the development of a robust evidence base to support transformation and demonstrate impact. Develop strategies to bridge gaps and strengthen collaboration between math, science, and literacy education and workforce systems, ensuring seamless transitions for learners and alignment with workforce needs. Supervise managers and staff, providing mentorship and support to foster professional growth and leadership capacity. Support establishment and refinement of team structures and processes that enable collaboration across teams, roles, and projects to ensure timely, high-quality, and impactful outcomes. Oversee the evaluation work of the center, providing strategic direction for the development and use of data, research, and evidence to inform decisions, guide systemic change efforts, and demonstrate the Centers impact. Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with the highest standards of quality. Maintain a clear understanding of staff workloads and capacity, ensuring that priorities, timelines, and resource allocations are realistic, sustainable, and aligned with organizational priorities. Cultivate a positive organizational and team culture focused on collaboration, innovation, and shared accountability. Build and sustain strong relationships with national education leaders, funders, policymakers, and workforce stakeholders. Cultivate relationships with leaders across K12, higher education, and workforce sectors to advance systemic change and foster collaboration across these systems. Represent the Dana Center in high-level forums to advance systemic change efforts and expand the Centers influence. Collaborate with other directors to identify new opportunities for partnerships and field engagement. Advance the Centers reputation as a leader in evidence-based systemic change by guiding the development of influential content and findings, contributing to publications, and representing the Center and disseminate our work at conferences and forums. Shape the Centers approach to systemic change by advancing policies and practices that foster scalability and long-term impact. Shape the national conversation on systemic alignment by advancing innovative strategies and solutions that connect K12, higher education, and workforce preparation systems. Collaborate with the Dana Center leadership team to identify funding priorities and develop evidence-based scopes of work and aligned budgets for proposals. Cultivate relationships with funders and stakeholders to maintain and grow the Centers funding portfolio. Ensure funding proposals are aligned with the teams strategic priorities and grounded in evidence of impact.