Strada Education Foundation

Project Manager

• Build, optimize, and maintain project management systems and tracking mechanisms for the annual State Opportunity Index
• Manage workflows between Research, Policy, Communications, and external consultants
• Provide real-time updates on project progress and surface risks or resource constraints
• Coordinate administrative logistics, meeting schedules, documentation, and action items across state-level initiatives and partner engagements
• Clean, structure, and analyze education, government labor, and state workforce datasets
• Use SQL, Python, or R and Excel for quantitative analysis, data validation, and database integrity
• Conduct qualitative interviews and outreach with state partners
• Evaluate workforce trend data for internal leadership and external stakeholders
• Translate technical findings into accessible resources for non-technical audiences
• Draft, edit, and format briefing pieces, policy summaries, and project updates
• Use data visualization tools and presentation platforms to communicate key insights

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Research Project Manager – Employer Alignment

Director

• Lead Strada Education Foundation's Quality Coaching Technology Innovation strategy and portfolio
• Define priorities, use cases, investments, partnerships, measures of success, and pathways to scale
• Advance the learning agenda concerning technology's role in augmenting human-connected coaching and career navigation
• Establish quality standards and technical benchmarks for technology-enabled career coaching tools
• Assess career navigation technology ecosystems, solutions, capabilities, gaps, and emerging opportunities
• Translate research, investments, pilots, and field learning into practical frameworks and scalable approaches
• Serve as the subject-matter leader on technology and AI across Quality Coaching
• Partner with Research, Strategy & Innovation, Impact Investments, Learner Engagement, and external partners
• Analyze complex strategic questions and provide decision-ready recommendations to senior leaders
• Lead cross-functional initiatives through influence and establish roles, decision rights, and accountability
• Represent Strada with researchers, funders, policymakers, education leaders, and technology providers
• Provide strategic oversight for grants, contracts, impact investments, impact measurement, and learning
• Manage and develop the Quality Coaching Project Manager
• Provide project-management leadership across Quality Coaching, including planning, progress monitoring, budgets, risks, dependencies, and decision points
• Strengthen portfolio execution, shared learning, organizational health, employee engagement, inclusion, belonging, and continuous improvement
• Support colleague development through coaching, feedback, and knowledge sharing

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Senior Director, Quality Coaching – Technology Innovation and Impact

Research Scientist

• Own day-to-day execution of original research projects, from framing research questions through delivering final results
• Investigate and synthesize relevant research literature and policy context
• Make methodologically sound decisions about data cleaning, variable operationalization, sampling, units of analysis, and analytic approaches
• Clean, code, organize, merge, and manage complex longitudinal datasets using Stata or R, with Stata preferred
• Perform data quality assurance checks and identify potential data problems and their causes
• Write carefully commented and well-organized syntax
• Design and refine methodologies to meet project objectives
• Conduct advanced statistical analyses
• Document methodological and operational decisions and prepare data codebooks
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to execute research
• Guide supporting research staff and contractors, assign tasks, set timelines, assess work quality, and provide feedback
• Collaborate on research manuscripts, reports, briefs, literature reviews, and summaries
• Prepare slide decks, data tables, figures, infographics, and other research communications
• Review internal partner products for accuracy and effective communication
• Deliver presentations to internal and external audiences
• Represent Strada at panels, conferences, symposia, and other convenings
• Help identify and develop research topics and questions aligned with the Institute's mission
• Build partnerships advancing research priorities
• Collaborate on grant proposals
• Support an inclusive workplace culture and participate in the diversity, equity, and inclusion learning agenda

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