Managing Director, National Program Implementation and Impact - East Coast

Larnell Vickers Enterprises • New York, NY

3d • Remote

About The Position

The Managing Director, National Program Implementation and Impact - East Coast, is a strategic leadership opportunity for an experienced education leader ready to drive excellence in program implementation across Leading Educators' West Coast district partnerships, with California as our strategic priority for growth and expansion. In this role, you'll manage a portfolio of Senior Directors overseeing eight or more major district projects across the entire West Coast region. Your primary strategic focus will be deepening our implementation excellence, student reach, and impact in California—a priority state for Leading Educators' expansion. Simultaneously, you'll oversee implementation across all West Coast partnerships, ensuring consistent quality, outcomes, and client satisfaction across the region. You'll be both a program strategist and a people leader—coaching and supporting Senior Directors to implement with excellence, troubleshoot challenges, and maintain deep relationships with senior district leaders throughout California and the broader West Coast. You'll lead the scoping and pricing process for expansions and renewals, ensuring all work aligns to our service packages and organizational priorities. Beyond day-to-day program management, you'll partner cross-functionally on workforce strategy, capacity planning, and resource allocation, working closely with colleagues in Operations and People & Talent to ensure staffing decisions maximize impact and efficiency. This role demands someone who brings established relationships with senior leaders in California school districts, state education agencies, and funders. You'll leverage your network to originate new partnership opportunities and expand our reach and student impact in California while managing implementation excellence across all West Coast partnerships. You'll play a critical organizational leadership role, leading significant change management efforts, fostering adaptive mindsets, and aligning your team's perspectives and practices with our evolving strategic vision. This is a role for a leader who thrives in complexity, embraces innovation (including AI adoption), and is deeply committed to advancing student success across the West Coast, with California as our strategic priority.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of related experience, including 5+ years of management experience, with a strong background in education, instructional leadership, and California district partnerships
• Demonstrated success managing large-scale, multi-site educational implementation initiatives to achieve measurable outcomes
• Experience scoping work for renewals, pricing accurately, and aligning offerings to service packages
• Proven ability to coach senior leaders to ambitious results and cultivate high-performing, collaborative teams
• Experience collaborating on staffing strategies, capacity planning, and resource allocation
• Skilled in leveraging data for continuous improvement and strategic planning
• Demonstrated ability to lead through organizational change and shift team perspectives toward a new strategic vision
• Proven ability to establish trust with senior California district leaders and navigate complex political and organizational contexts
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity and change in dynamic environments
• Proven ability to learn and adopt AI tools, integrate them into team workflows, and lead others in doing the same to increase efficiency and productivity

Nice To Haves

• Established relationships with senior leaders in California school districts, state education agencies, and funders.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of Senior Directors overseeing eight or more major district projects across the entire West Coast region.
• Deepen implementation excellence, student reach, and impact in California.
• Oversee implementation across all West Coast partnerships, ensuring consistent quality, outcomes, and client satisfaction.
• Coach and support Senior Directors to implement with excellence, troubleshoot challenges, and maintain deep relationships with senior district leaders.
• Lead the scoping and pricing process for expansions and renewals, ensuring all work aligns to service packages and organizational priorities.
• Partner cross-functionally on workforce strategy, capacity planning, and resource allocation.
• Originate new partnership opportunities and expand reach and student impact in California.
• Lead significant change management efforts, fostering adaptive mindsets, and aligning team perspectives and practices with the evolving strategic vision.
• Embrace innovation, including AI adoption, and lead the team in integrating new tools to increase efficiency and effectiveness.

Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for individual employees.
• Additional premium costs are covered 60% by Leading Educators for partners and dependents on medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 4% matching 401k plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, childcare and commuter expenses
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Benefits are valued at or above $9,000 for employees.
• 22 days of paid time off per year for the first three years of employment.
• Five additional days of paid time off accrued after the third and sixth year of employment.
• 16 additional paid days off for various holidays, including three floating holidays.

What This Job Offers

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