President

Instruction Partners, a national nonprofit organization focused on strengthening instructional leadership, seeks a collaborative, innovative, and mission-driven leader to serve as its inaugural President as it shifts from a single CEO to a President/CEO model. This is a unique opportunity to join an impactful and growing organization and play a central role in ensuring that Instruction Partners effectively meets its ambitious goals for the future. The President will be a leader on strategy, alignment, and execution across the organization and will report directly to – and work closely with – the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Emily Freitag. 

Instruction Partners aims to ensure that all students experience an excellent education that prepares them to contribute to their community, achieve economic security, and pursue their dreams. The organization seeks to strengthen instructional leadership in schools, school systems, and states to equip teachers with the support they need to improve learning experiences and outcomes for students. Their work particularly focuses on supporting students of color, students experiencing poverty, multilingual learners, and students with disabilities. Dedicated staff spend time getting to know the needs of the educators, leaders, and systems they serve, enabling them to co-create service plans with partners to support partner goals. Instruction Partners and its 160 staff members currently serve 75 school systems, 19 regional service centers, and five state agencies around the country.

In recent years, Instruction Partners has experienced rapid growth and is launching an ambitious five-year strategic plan. To support the success of this plan and the organization overall, Instruction Partners is adding a President who will lead all teams of the organization, coordinate work across the organization, maintain a people- and values-driven culture, and serve as a critical partner to the CEO and leadership team on long-term strategy. Specifically, the President will drive day-to-day activities, working closely with the leadership team to execute organizational goals; model and support cultural leadership aligned to Instruction Partners’ core values, ensuring staff across the organization feel supported and providing resolutions as needed; create cross-team systems, resulting in seamless information sharing and decision making; and partner with the CEO on external affairs, monitoring for alignment between fundraising efforts, current organizational goals, and meaningful engagement with school partners. 

The ideal candidate will be a values-, outcomes-, and people-oriented leader who brings the following: a deep commitment to the mission of Instruction Partners; significant prior experience leading in an education-focused service provider (ideally experience leading work in school systems and education service-providing nonprofits); an understanding of education at multiple levels and how different actors interact to support change; prior experience managing large teams, including managers and team leaders; experience helping a diverse group find and hold clear to a focus; experience as an effective team facilitator; strong communication skills; and the ability to lead and engage in deep, productive, and honest work on diversity, equity, and inclusion to advance antiracism.

The salary for this role is $275,000-$300,000. Detailed information about the organizational compensation philosophy can be found here. Competitive benefits and private retirement investment options are available, as well as a generous vacation policy.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet about 60% of job criteria, women and other marginalized groups tend to apply only when they check every box. So, if you think you have what it takes but are unsure that you check every box, Instruction Partners still wants to hear from you. Nominations and applications, including a cover letter and a resume, should be submitted below.

Katie Rockman and Berkley Braden are leading this search with Janette Martinez and Maria Connor. 

Instruction Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Instruction Partners complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.