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About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- 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
Requirements
What you’ll need- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in the education field, including school leadership, school design, management consulting, or philanthropy
- At least 5 years of experience serving as a school principal or coaching school principals
- Direct experience with AI in schools, such as building AI into instructional or operational systems, supporting AI adoption, or evaluating AI tools and models
- Experience founding, designing, or redesigning innovative school models, or coaching early-stage founders through design and launch
- Demonstrated ability to design and deliver impactful adult learning experiences for leaders and teams
- Travel up to 25% for in-person team meetings, retreats, and school site visits
- Experience making or contributing to investment, funding, or high-stakes organizational decisions preferred
- Building deep networks across K-12 education, especially among school founders and innovators
- Designing and maintaining systems and routines that capture, organize and share learning
- Owning multiple workstreams from inception through completion with attention to detail and strong organization
- Collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders to achieve ambitious goals
- Leading reflection and improvement cycles for workstreams, using data and documented learning to inform decisions and improve team effectiveness
- Producing high quality written and verbal materials for internal and external audiences at a variety of levels
- Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
- NewSchools is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time
Benefits
Comp & perks- Performance bonus of up to 5% annually
- Employer-funded benefits
- Remote work from anywhere in the U.S.