NewSchools

Affiliate Manager

• Lead recruitment and selection for emergent, AI-native school models
• Own recruitment strategy for founders building future-ready models across AI infrastructure, college and career pathways, talent and time redesign, and models for historically underserved students
• Build and refine a national pipeline of innovative founders across charter and district schools
• Shape funding application and selection criteria
• Review applications, conduct due diligence, and support selection alongside the IPS team
• Author investment recommendations for leadership and the board
• Serve as strategic relationship owner for up to 10 school teams in their earliest design phase
• Diagnose school models and shape support plans
• Coach founders through instructional coherence, AI integration, staffing, authorization, and launch-readiness decisions
• Design and lead adult learning experiences, including cohort convenings, design sprints, school visits, and peer consultancy
• Partner with associate partners across the Y00-Y3 trajectory
• Lead identification, selection, and support of AI-native and AI-supported fresh start schools
• Manage and evaluate relationships with AI implementation partners
• Contribute to NewSchools’ AI learning agenda with the Research and Learning team
• Spend significant time in schools, incubators, and convenings to understand innovation and founder needs
• Translate field and portfolio insight into selection criteria, support strategy, and investment priorities
• Share organizational learning externally and build NewSchools’ influence and credibility
• Lead or contribute to new innovation initiatives and special projects as IPS priorities evolve

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Associate Partner

Data Analyst

• Own data stewardship, quality, analytics, and impact metrics for a designated investment team
• Translate learning agendas into metric definitions, data structures, processes, and stakeholder communications
• Develop and maintain quantitative and qualitative data collection processes
• Identify data and tooling gaps and recommend warehouse, infrastructure, self-service, and research improvements
• Maintain working knowledge of the data warehouse, BI tools, and public data infrastructure
• Project manage annual data collection cycles, including rostering, survey development, and administration
• Manage data intake, validation, cleaning, quality-control checkpoints, and database updates
• Investigate data anomalies, identify root causes, and manage stakeholder communications
• Serve as the analytics partner and trusted data resource for assigned investment teams
• Lead ad hoc analyses and synthesize findings into investment recommendations
• Handle reporting and analysis requests for grant and funder reporting
• Use SQL, BI tools, and AI-assisted analytics for analysis and rapid prototyping
• Collaborate on custom queries and datasets for learning agendas, team strategy, Board requests, and funder reporting and prospecting
• Develop planning tools, analysis frameworks, and visualizations to generate insights and identify portfolio bright spots
• Help non-technical colleagues navigate data systems and dashboards
• Support adoption of self-service analytics tools through onboarding, coaching, and ongoing support
• Provide ad hoc data support across the organization

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Manager

• Lead the annual organization-wide budget development process, including preparing templates and training, gathering team input, and making recommendations to senior leadership
• Maintain and update rolling cash flow forecasts, financial models, and scenario analyses
• Prepare monthly and quarterly budget-versus-actual variance analyses
• Lead quarterly budget review sessions with budget owners
• Advise budget owners by translating budget data into insights and recommendations for resourcing and programmatic decisions
• Support the Development team with financial reporting packages and funding proposal models
• Improve budgeting and reporting workflows through standardization, automation, and modernization of financial reporting tools
• Partner with the Director of Finance on multi-year financial plans and portfolio, capacity, and funding scenarios
• Synthesize budget, cash, and portfolio trends to identify risks and opportunities and recommend actions
• Contribute to financial sustainability planning, including reserves, liquidity, and capital deployment strategy
• Prepare and analyze reports and presentations for quarterly Finance Committee meetings
• Monitor liquidity needs and cash positions across accounts
• Assess and improve finance processes, controls, and tools
• Conduct financial due diligence for loan applications and strategic capital tools
• Maintain financial diligence training, support, and templates for grant investments
• Oversee contracts and procurement processes, financial approvals, and purchase orders in Intacct
• Review grant agreements, set up vendor contracts in Salesforce, and support accounts payable and grant payments
• Report to the Director of Finance and serve as budget and reporting partner to investment team leaders, Development, and senior leadership

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