Partner, Learning & Development Strategy

Transcend

5d•$103,500 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

This role sits at the center of a strategic shift within Transcend's School Design, Learning & Development team, focusing on building the capacity of leaders and communities to drive school redesign change directly. The position involves designing, scaling, and bringing to market credentials, certifications, and capacity-building offerings. The Partner, Strategy will support go-to-market strategy, lead the team's learning agenda, coordinate across functions, and ensure the work progresses with clarity and momentum. It requires operating at both strategic and execution levels, translating high-level strategy into actionable plans, and driving follow-through. The ideal candidate is energized by complexity and thrives in bringing order, clarity, and momentum to a fast-moving team.

Requirements

Highly organized and strategic operator who thrives in complex, evolving environments.
Ability to connect ideas, people, and workstreams, bringing clarity and momentum.
Effective at shaping strategy and ensuring strong execution.
Ability to anticipate needs, synthesize quickly, and help teams move forward with focus and alignment.
Comfortable building the path as you go and bringing others along.
Belief in building local capacity as a path to lasting change in education.
Deep commitment to Transcend’s mission of transforming education and a passion for designing learning experiences where all students thrive.
Curiosity, care, and a drive to make meaningful change.
Strong strategic synthesis skills: ability to translate complex ideas into clear plans and recommendations.
Excellent cross-functional coordination skills, building alignment without formal authority.
Practical, execution-oriented mindset: ability to bring structure to ambiguous work and own projects end-to-end.
Strong research and learning synthesis skills: ability to design and steward a learning agenda and ensure insights shape decisions.
Go-to-market fluency: understanding of how to define target audience, sharpen value proposition, and build clear pathways.
Strong planning and project management instincts: experience with quarterly planning, tracking workstreams, and crisp communication.
Clear, compelling written communication skills.
Track record of operating at the intersection of strategy and execution, serving as a trusted thought partner to senior leaders.

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Managing Partner, helping to shape priorities, plans, and key decisions.
Translate high-level strategy into clear, actionable plans and aligned workstreams.
Prepare synthesis, recommendations, and materials that support strong internal and external decision-making.
Support the development and refinement of our go-to-market strategy for external capacity-building and certification offerings.
Help define target audiences, value propositions, and partner pathways.
Partner with Business Development and Portfolio teams to align strategy with external opportunities.
Ensure internal clarity and consistency in how offerings are understood and communicated across the organization.
Steward the School Design, Learning & Development Team’s learning agenda, ensuring key questions are clearly defined and prioritized.
Conduct and synthesize research across internal pilots, partner work, and external models.
Translate insights into clear implications for strategy, offerings, and decisions.
Ensure learning is systematically captured and used to continuously improve the work.
Serve as a central connector across teams contributing to capacity building (e.g., Portfolio teams, Program Team, Business Development, Legal).
Ensure alignment across strategy, tools, experiences, and certification efforts.
Identify gaps, overlaps, and inconsistencies and drive toward greater coherence.
Support the Managing Partner in setting and maintaining clear priorities across the School Design, Learning & Development Team.
Drive planning and tracking processes (e.g., quarterly priorities, step-backs, progress monitoring).
Ensure strong communication, role clarity, and follow-through across workstreams.
Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and areas requiring attention.
Own and execute high-priority, ambiguous projects that advance the capacity strategy.
Bring structure and clarity to early-stage work and move it toward concrete outcomes.
Ensure projects are grounded in both strategic intent and practical execution.