Executive Director

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Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for EEP’s staff and consultants, strategy, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. The Executive Director will be the linchpin between the Board, EEP staff, and the broader group of stakeholders in the education reform field (including EEP’s funders and signatories). As EEP is transitioning to focus more on building the capacity of local partners, the Executive Director should be prepared to develop and implement initiatives to provide organizing, financial, media, and political assistance to support locally driven organizations and reform campaigns. Specifically, the Executive Director will focus on the following areas: Leadership & Management: -- Create clear priorities and strategies for measurable impact --Ensure ongoing excellence and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals --Actively engage and energize EEP Board members, partners, signatories, funders, and prospective funders --Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both current activities as well as for the rollout of the new strategy --Recruit, lead, coach, develop, and retain a high-performing senior management team --Ensure effective systems to track progress and policy victories and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the Board, funders, and other constituents Planning & New Initiatives: --Expand key national activities and partnerships --Implement a process for EEP to identify and select key target local communities and issues to focus on --Build partnerships with the funders, educators, and political and community leaders in those target communities --Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates EEP’s positions, activities, and results with an emphasis on the successes of the local communities as models for replication Fundraising & Communications: --Devise and expand fundraising activities to support operations and activities --Deepen and refine all aspects of communications – from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger EEP brand --Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities Reform Movement Building --Serve as a catalyst for new ideas for achievement gap-closing solutions to education policy problems --Work with diverse groups of advocates, professionals, educators, parents, entrepreneurs, organizations, funders, and others in the field to understand and build awareness of emerging education reform issues and opportunities --Use EEP’s convening power and reputation to cultivate buy-in from the Board, funders, and other key stakeholders to pursue advocacy of these solutions and opportunities to political leaders --Work with political leaders to inform policy by staying abreast of trends, practices, laws, developments in technology and other related aspects of education reform policy

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