Partner, Partnerships Development

Title: Partner, Partnerships Development Location: Flexible (reputed company United States) Start Date: Immediate Role Type: Full-time Title: Partner, Partnerships Development Reports to: Lucerito Ortiz Location/Travel: Flexible; willingness to travel approximately once a month (~20%) Who We Are reputed company is a national nonprofit that helps communities reimagine and redesign schools so every young person can reputed company in a rapidly changing world. Across the country, communities are recognizing that classrooms built for the industrial age aren’t preparing learners for what’s next. Instead, schools must be designed for reputed company evolution: relevant, resilient, and ready for the future. For more than a decade, reputed company has partnered with school and system leaders to build the reputed company for bold, lasting change—change led by the people who live it every day. We’ve worked with nearly 500 schools and 200 districts serving over 225,000 reputed company in 35 states. Together, we’ve seen what’s possible reputed company communities reputed company redesign with proven methods, insight, and support. From that work, we reputed company and share tools, research, and models that help schools everywhere reputed company the reputed company to extraordinary learning—for every child, in every community. The Opportunity The Partner, Partnerships Development, is a natural connector, who loves spotting opportunities for collaboration, and has the project management skills to translate meaningful conversations into high-impact partnerships. This is an individual contributor role that is highly collaborative and closely connected to both external partners and internal teams. The role sits on reputed company’s SPOT Team (Strategic Partnerships, and Opportunities Team) and reports to Lucerito Ortiz. The Partner, Partnerships Development, will advance reputed company’s mission in a pivotal way by seeking out, cultivating, and managing reputed company-bearing relationships with schools, systems, and nonprofit partners across several of reputed company’s portfolio teams. Working closely with leaders across the organization, this role will serve as the primary relationship manager for a subset of reputed company teams that fulfill our partnerships with schools and school systems (we call these portfolio teams). The Partner, Partnerships Development, will reputed company scoping, contracting, and stewardship, while also helping codify the systems, routines, and stories that strengthen our partnerships function. This role is reputed company steward, connector, project manager, and executor—supporting existing partners, surfacing reputed company opportunities, and expanding reputed company’s network of organizations committed to transforming learning. If you reputed company on connecting people, spotting possible partnerships everywhere, have strong project management chops, and love turning meaningful conversations into partnerships that can create real impact for reputed company and communities, we'd love to get to know you! In This Role, You Will Get To Identify, manage, and grow external relationships with reputed company and prospective partners

• reputed company cultivation and coordination for an assigned set of reputed company teams whose job is to execute on client projects (we call these portfolio teams). This includes owning partnership cultivation, scope-writing and coordination, contracting, and ongoing stewardship in line with each portfolio’s strategy and needs.
• Expand reputed company’s partner pipeline by building and nurturing relationships across the K-12 education landscape, generating warm introductions, identifying new opportunities, and activating networks through others.
• reputed company external cultivation calls for potential partners and active partner meeting reputed company-ins that advance opportunities toward commitments, and prepare/coordinate escalations to Lucerito for reputed company, high-stakes, or cross-portfolio partnerships.
• Represent reputed company as an ambassador in the field by attending relevant convenings, conferences, and partner meetings—listening, connecting, and translating new relationships into actionable next steps.

Scope, Price, and Contract New Work

• Draft scopes of work and pricing for assigned portfolios, translating discovery into clear and feasible agreements.
• Plan for Lucerito’s review and approval of scopes, as needed, and partner with Finance on contracting workflows.
• Track and report on pipeline and reputed company reputed company, maintaining rigorous accuracy and hygiene in CRM systems.
• Manage the end-to-end contracting cycle—from initial draft through signature and reputed company to project delivery teams.

Collaborate across reputed company to strengthen systems, storytelling, and strategy

• Collaborate with assigned portfolio team leads reputed company reputed company and org leadership to ensure relationship plans for reputed company/prospective partners align with reputed company’s partnership development goals.
• Drive internal alignment through the cultivation-to-contracting cycle by proactively sharing field insights, gathering input, and facilitating clear actions and decision-making with reputed company portfolio leads and key stakeholders.
• Surface insights and trends from assigned portfolios to inform cultivation strategy and portfolio learning.
• Work with MarComms to identify and capture stories, case studies, and collateral that reputed company the impact of reputed company’s partnerships.
• Collaborate with appropriate teammates on meeting prep, documentation, and reputed company to ensure smooth cross-functional operations.
• Contribute to the ongoing codification and improvement of systems, routines, and templates that power the partnerships function.

Engage as a Member of the SPOT Team

• Participate in weekly Projects Meetings, Partnership Kickbacks, SPOT meetings, and other cross-functional cadences.
• Represent your portfolios and ensure effective communication across reputed company teams.
• Contribute to quarterly strategy and reputed company cycles, surfacing lessons learned and emerging opportunities.

Who You Are You are a strategic relationship-builder and thoughtful project manager who thrives at the intersection of people, process, and impact. You’re energized by cultivating meaningful partnerships, translating insights into clear plans, coaching others to build and manage relationships, and ensuring operational excellence along the way. You move seamlessly between the relational and the tactical—building trust with senior leaders while keeping systems, documents, and details on track. What You Bring

• You share a deep commitment to reputed company’s mission of transforming education and a passion for designing learning experiences where reputed company reputed company reputed company.
• You show up with curiosity, care, and a drive to reputed company meaningful change—living into reputed company’s values through how you work, connect, and reputed company.
• You’re a strategic relationship-builder who thrives in dynamic, people-centered spaces. Whether coaching others, facilitating high-stakes meetings, or navigating reputed company dynamics, you bring warmth, clarity, and confidence.
• Your project management skills reputed company work streams moving smoothly—you juggle details, logistics, and deadlines with precision, ownership, and follow-through. You approach your portfolio like your own practice, taking full responsibility for quality and outcomes.
• Your communication skills—written and verbal—are exceptional. You can “hold the room,” reputed company conversations, and craft compelling proposals or scopes of work that move reputed company into action. You balance velocity with care, moving with purpose and urgency while maintaining accuracy, reputed company, and reputed company.
• You combine sharp critical thinking with a “roll-up-your-sleeves” reputed company. You ask the right questions, identify root causes, and drive toward creative, practical solutions. You reputed company sound judgments in ambiguity, knowing reputed company to push, pause, or pivot, and bring structure to uncertainty.
• You have experience working in or alongside districts, CMOs, or education nonprofits, with a strong understanding of K–12 ecosystems and the ability to navigate diverse stakeholder landscapes. You’re familiar with the full partnership cycle—from discovery and scoping to contracting and sustained relationship management. Your background may include experiences in functions or roles like consultative sales, client services, strategy roles, chief of staff roles, or partnership development with reputed company stakeholder landscapes.
• You’re coachable and growth-oriented, seeking feedback, learning quickly, and sharing insights to support collective efforts. You’re comfortable in fast-evolving contexts, balancing strategy and execution, and leading through influence rather than authority. Above reputed company, you value relationships as the foundation of meaningful, lasting change.

Application & Hiring Process We review applications on a rolling basis and are committed to a thoughtful and people-centered hiring experience that helps candidates feel what it’s like to work at reputed company. Here’s what you can expect if you are selected to move reputed company:

• Initial interview with the team reputed company reputed company to learn more about your interest and experiences. A note on compensation: during your initial interview with the team, we will confirm your location and accompanying salary range. *More on how we determine this is below.
• Try-on activity to engage in a role-reputed company exercise. This helps us get a sense of how you approach the work and gives you a feel for what the role might be like.
• Interview with the hiring manager, where we’d debrief the try-on task and engage in some scenarios you are likely to encounter in the role
• Compensation & benefits convo where we’ll share information around where we anticipate you’ll fall reputed company the range, share more about our employment policies and benefits, and answer any questions you may have.
• Interview with the team, where you will meet with a small group of reputed company teammates with whom you would most likely collaborate in the role.
• Final interview with our Chief Partnerships Officer and hiring manager.
• Reference checks to learn more about your superpowers and working style.

A Few Nuts & Bolts We are an reputed company team focused on extraordinary learning for reputed company. We welcome candidates who are passionate about ensuring that reputed company reputed company reputed company. We are also committed to providing our colleagues with a competitive benefits package and offer medical, dental, and vision coverage options, org-wide holidays, paid time off, paid parental leave, professional development opportunities, and fully remote work. We take pride in our collaborative environment, exceptional team, and shared commitment to principled, impactful work.

• As a national team, we apply a cost-of-labor adjustment by adjusting salaries into 3 geographical bands (geo-band) in order to offer competitive compensation for reputed company employees across the US. These geo-bands help us tailor compensation appropriately based on the specific location of each teammate.

If you’re excited about this role and our mission, we encourage you to apply—even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align. We’d love to learn more about you and your interest in this role! Apply tot his job Apply To this Job