Partner, Learning & Development

Transcend

8h•$103,500 - $150,000•Remote

About The Position

Transcend is a national nonprofit that helps communities reimagine and redesign schools so every young person can thrive in a rapidly changing world. This role sits at the heart of a strategic shift by helping Transcend design, scale, and bring to market the credentials, certifications, and capacity-building offerings that make community-led transformation possible. The Partner, Learning and Development is equally a designer and a facilitator. This role is responsible for translating Transcend’s approach into practical, usable tools and high-quality experiences that make it easier for others to launch and sustain design journeys independently over time.

Requirements

Skilled facilitator and experienced designer energized by helping others learn, grow, and lead.
Able to translate complex ideas into tools and resources that make hard work feel manageable.
Designs experiences with intention, focusing on what a person will be able to do independently afterward.
Thinks in systems and sequences, caring about both immediate experience and lasting impact.
Brings creative vision and practical rigor.
Deep commitment to Transcend’s mission of transforming education and a passion for designing learning experiences where all students thrive.
Shows up with curiosity, care, and a drive to make meaningful change—living into Transcend’s values.
Skill at creating learning environments that are both challenging and supportive, where honest dialogue happens and breakthrough thinking is possible.
Track record of designing and facilitating high-impact adult learning experiences that build participants' capacity for independent leadership.
Translates complex ideas into practical, scalable tools and learning assets that enable people to apply and sustain the work with decreasing reliance on direct support.
Systems thinking and strategic alignment; can connect individual learning experiences to a broader capacity-building model and ensure coherence across tools, experiences, and outcomes.
Collaborative, co-designing orientation; knows how to partner with stakeholders to understand their goals and shape experiences that meet them where they are.
Ability to gauge a partner's readiness and adjust level of support accordingly, scaffolding when needed and stepping back when they're ready.
Ability to adapt in real time, reading the room and adjusting facilitation approach based on participant needs, energy, and context.
Strong feedback and coaching skills; gives clear, actionable input that helps partners grow their capacity to lead design work.
Comfort capturing and synthesizing insights from the field to continuously improve offerings and inform strategy.
Meaningful experience working in or alongside schools or education systems, whether as a teacher, leader, coach, or designer.

Responsibilities

Design engaging, high-impact adult learning experiences (virtual and in-person) that build participants’ ability to lead design work.
Facilitate sessions that build participants’ knowledge and skills, spark reflection, shift mindsets, and drive toward action and ownership.
Adapt experiences in real time based on participant needs and context.
Create environments that are both challenging and supportive, enabling honest dialogue and breakthrough thinking.
Translate complex ideas into clear, practical, and engaging tools (e.g., protocols, guides, templates, case studies).
Adapt resources that help partners independently apply community-based design in their context.
Contribute to our bank of existing tools and resources and modular design supports (design kits, learning modules, etc.) that reduce reliance on direct Transcend support.
Continuously refine tools based on user feedback and real-world application.
Collaborate with partners to understand their goals and co-design learning experiences that meet their needs.
Support partners in applying what they learn to real work (e.g., planning sessions, facilitating design teams, testing ideas).
Build strong, trust-based relationships that enable honest feedback and growth.
Gauge partners’ readiness to lead aspects of the work independently and adjust support accordingly.
Provide clear, actionable feedback to help partners strengthen their ability to lead design work over time.
Contribute to partners’ progression from exposure → skill-building → independent leadership.
Align experiences and tools to Transcend’s broader capacity-building model and certification pathways.
Capture insights from partner work to inform continuous improvement of offerings.
Collaborate across teams to ensure coherence between tools, experiences, and partner outcomes.
Help define what high-quality capacity building looks like in practice.