Education to Career Pathways - Leadership Future Opportunities

TNTP • AL: Alabama, AL

2d

About The Position

This is not a current job posting or an application for one specific open role. It is an opportunity to express interest in possible future leadership opportunities, projects, and partnerships related to TNTP's education-to-career pathways work as organizational needs evolve. At TNTP, our education-to-career work focuses on bridging the gap between education and career so more young people graduate with both strong academic foundations and real pathways to opportunity. We work across K-12, postsecondary, workforce, and employer ecosystems to help systems create coherent experiences that connect learning to real-world skills, postsecondary success, and access to meaningful work and long-term economic mobility.

Requirements

• Sets a clear vision for education-to-career pathways and turns that vision into actionable strategies across K-12, postsecondary, and workforce systems
• Builds trusted partnerships with district and state leaders, postsecondary institutions, employers, workforce organizations, and internal teams to strengthen pathway design and implementation
• Leads complex cross-sector work through ambiguity and change while maintaining a strong focus on equity, student outcomes, and long-term opportunity
• Uses data, labor market insight, and stakeholder feedback to improve pathway quality, student transitions, and postsecondary and career outcomes
• Develops teams and partners to execute high-impact pathway work through coaching, collaboration, strong project leadership, and shared accountability
• Drives implementation from strategy to execution, ensuring education-to-career initiatives are scalable, practical, and responsive to partner and student needs
• Applicants for employment with TNTP must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Designing and leading career-connected learning pathways, including CTE, P-TECH, early college, dual enrollment, or work-based learning models
• Building employer, industry, and workforce partnerships that create clearer pathways from school to postsecondary education, training, and careers
• Improving student transitions to postsecondary education, credential attainment, workforce training, and career success
• Leading K-12, district, regional, or state strategies that align academic planning, pathway design, and student outcomes with labor market opportunity
• Advancing policy, systems change, or cross-sector initiatives that strengthen education-to-career pathways at scale
• Using innovation, data, and emerging tools, including AI where relevant, to expand pathway access, quality, and impact

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed