Senior Director of Strategic Execution

Role Description

SchoolHouse Connection (SHC) is entering a new phase of growth. As our work expands across programs, policy, communications, partnerships, and emerging state-based initiatives, we are creating a new senior leadership role to ensure our strategic priorities translate into coordinated, high-quality execution across the organization. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, the Senior Director of Strategic Execution serves as the organization's chief integrator, building and leading the planning processes, operating rhythms, and accountability systems that keep teams aligned, focused on the highest-impact work, and moving forward together.

This role is ideal for a strategic systems-minded organizational leader who excels at bringing clarity to complexity, helping leaders make thoughtful tradeoffs, and enabling others to succeed. Working in close partnership with the Executive Director and senior leadership team, the Senior Director will strengthen cross-functional collaboration, improve organizational effectiveness, and build and maintain the infrastructure that allows SchoolHouse Connection to scale its impact while staying true to its mission.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in senior operations, strategy, chief of staff, or organizational leadership roles, preferably in complex, national education nonprofits.
• Demonstrated success translating strategy into execution across multiple teams or functions.
• Experience designing and leading planning processes, operating rhythms, and progress-monitoring systems.
• Experience leading teams through growth, change, or increased complexity.
• Strong understanding of nonprofit operating models, capacity constraints, and cross-functional coordination.
• Experience serving as a strategic partner to an Executive Director, CEO, Chief Operating Officer, or equivalent executive leader.
• Experience building organizational operating systems and management infrastructure in growing organizations.
• Demonstrated success facilitating cross-functional decision-making among senior leaders.
• Experience balancing organizational agility with disciplined execution.

Requirements

• Exceptional systems thinking and pattern recognition.
• Strong judgment and facilitation skills, including the ability to frame options, tradeoffs, and recommendations for senior leaders.
• Excellent project and portfolio management skills.
• Clear, concise writing and communication skills.
• High emotional intelligence and the ability to build trust, navigate ambiguity, and strengthen relationships across diverse teams.
• Strong judgment about when greater structure will improve execution and when flexibility will produce better outcomes.
• Ability to influence without relying on supervisory authority.
• Exceptional facilitation and consensus-building skills.
• Ability to identify organizational patterns, capacity constraints, and execution risks before they become problems.
• Comfort navigating difficult conversations that improve organizational effectiveness.
• Ability to build practical systems that people actually use.
• Executive presence characterized by humility, discretion, composure under pressure, sound judgment, and an unwavering commitment to the mission over personal recognition.

Benefits

• Full-time position with a competitive salary range of $152,000 - $190,000.
• Robust benefits including work from home and flexible schedule (with occasional required travel).
• Generous leave and health insurance reimbursement.
• 403(b) plan with employer contribution.
• Professional growth opportunities.

Company Description

Founded in 2016, SchoolHouse Connection (SHC) is the nation's leading nonprofit dedicated to overcoming homelessness through early care and education. SHC works to ensure that children and youth experiencing homelessness, from prenatal through postsecondary education, have access to the educational opportunities and supports they need to thrive and break the cycle of homelessness.

SHC advances its mission through a unique combination of strategic policy advocacy, practical assistance, and grassroots partnership. Working alongside young people, families, educators, early childhood providers, institutions of higher education, service organizations, and policymakers, the organization develops practical solutions that improve educational access while driving lasting systems change at the local, state, and national levels.

Today, SHC's national network spans all 50 states and the District of Columbia and includes educators, school district homeless liaisons, state coordinators, higher education leaders, early childhood providers, researchers, advocates, service providers, and youth with lived experience. Together, they are working toward a future where every child and young person experiencing homelessness has access to high-quality education and the opportunity to achieve lasting stability.

To Apply

Please submit a resume online at this link .

SchoolHouse Connection provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, medical condition, genetics, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. Upon request, reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to individuals with disabilities.