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https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/11878193 Associate Director,
K-12, South/Southwest
College Board - State & District Partnerships
Location: This is a fully remote position based in Florida
Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The South/Southwest K-12 team at College Board is a dynamic, high-energy
team focused on expanding opportunity for students by partnering with
educators in high schools, school districts, and state departments of
education. We sit within State & District Partnerships (100+ staff), a
highly engaged group that works to provide opportunities to students
through promoting the use of College Board programs and services
including assessments (SAT, PSAT, & AP), BigFuture and College Board
Search.
About the Opportunity
As an Associate Director of K-12, you are directly responsible for
managing relationships with key stakeholders at schools and districts
within an assigned territory. You will contribute to state and regional
strategies and goals in consultation with your manager. Your ability to
build deep and meaningful relationships with educators will play a
critical role in the lives of students and educators and will allow the
College Board to achieve its goals. When K-12 leaders in your territory
have the information, they need to select and implement College Board
programs that will best serve their students, it\'s because of your
expertise, clear communication, ability to analyze and distill data, and
skill to build strategic partnerships that advance student success.
In this role, you will:
Manage Partnerships with Districts (70%)
- Coordinate educational services to include targeting needs in plans
of action for each deliverable, identifying resources and scheduling
for partnership deliverables, and working with state and local
administrators to build support for program delivery.
- Manage the operational activities of College Board commitments for
the delivery of educational services, the development of operational
plans and establishing timelines for contract deliverables.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key state agency and/or
district staff. In consultation with the K-12 Senior Director/State
Lead, create and deliver key reports and presentations to all levels
of district and/or state officials independently or collaboratively
with colleagues.
- Apply understanding of K-12 educational landscape of your assigned
accounts to develop and execute a district strategy in consultation
with the Senior Director. Execute account strategies with a focus on
service-model implementation.
- Utilize consultative sales processes in the course of
district-level, data-focused needs analyses. Manage all aspects of
contracting processes.
- Plan and conduct in-depth, sometimes customized, workshops and
professional development programs for K-12 constituent groups
- Collaborate with Senior Director/State Lead to complete assigned
tasks related to state strategy
Execute Internal Processes & Manage Regional Projects (30%)
- Utilize Salesforce CRM for account management, to monitor progress
toward goals, to manage state/district account plans, and for
proactive opportunity and task management.
- Employ various College Board sources to access, compile, and analyze
data in support of work with districts. Independently conduct
standard and complex data analysis to inform recommendations to
stakeholders in strategy planning.
- Contribute to divisional or regional projects assigned by
leadership.
About You
You have:
- At least 5 years of relevant and progressive experience in education
or a related field; direct experience in assessment, curriculum, or
student achievement initiatives highly desired
- Possess a passion for education and deep commitment to the College
Board\'s mission of promoting educational equity, access, and
excellence for students of all backgrounds
- Demonstrated ability to build deep and meaningful relationships, to
influence others to action, and to effectively handle multiple
situations simultaneously
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including
developing and leading presentations, and ability to analyze and
succinctly summarize key data points to present key findings to
constituents
- Strong organization and prioritization skills and the proven ability
to move forward multiple time-sensitive projects in concert, both
independently and as a member of the team
- Strong computer literacy, including Microsoft applications
- Willingness & ability to travel extensively
- A Bachelor\'s degree
- Experience using customer relationship management system like
Salesforce (preferred)
About Our Process
Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the
position is filled
While the hiring process may vary,