Director-Strategic Partnerships

Director Of Strategic Partnerships

The Director of Strategic Partnerships supports regional operators in the retention of schools and acquisition of new schools by serving as a resource to strengthen the alignment between the schools' needs and Catapult Learning's financial goals and mission to increase academic outcome for children. This person will work alongside regional operators to develop and maintain strong relationships with new and existing customers within Catapult Learning's non-public school portfolio.

Responsibilities include the following:

• Execute a strategic school retention and/or acquisition plan to solidify multi-year partnerships with non-public schools and districts, supporting regional financial goals. Measure success through retention rates, revenue growth, and achievement of partnership milestones that contribute to meeting or exceeding financial targets.
• Collaborate with regional operators to support school leadership program decisions that align with instructional, specialized services, and professional development solutions that are feasible and adhere to Catapult Learning's contractual service commitments.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key networks, including School Boards, district leadership, diocesan leaders, private and religious school leaders, local community leaders, and other influential stakeholders.
• Develop and execute annual strategy to engage key stakeholders.
• Support regional operators in implementing individual account plans to move each account through the sales cycle from open to close, including preparing and submitting RFP responses, attending bidders' conferences, and establishing partnerships necessary to secure new business.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key internal teams, including Sales, Marketing, Research and Evaluation, and Regional Operations, ensuring close collaboration, alignment of goals, and effective coordination across departments.
• This is a hybrid role; candidate must live in or be willing to relocate to NYC.

Qualifications include the following:

• Requires at least eight years of related experience
• School Leadership Experience Preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, written, and organizational skills.
• Must have the ability to appropriately communicate with and influence all levels of constituents.
• Knowledge and understanding of public and/or private school policies and procedures.
• Knowledge and understanding of State and Federal education funding.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills, adept at influencing others and guiding district leaders through complex planning and adoption processes while maintaining ethical decision-making.

Pay rate starting from USD $100,000.00/Yr.

Physical environment/working conditions/travel: Light lifting, walking, climbing stairs. Travel within the territory is expected.