- Ensure timely, transparent decision-making across the organization that appropriately incorporates the Executive Committee, Advisory committees, and the Governing Board.
- Lead executive cross-office coordination to align strategies, manage shared resources, and manage operational trade-offs that incorporate data-informed decision-making.
- Oversee organizational risk management and compliance frameworks that safeguard operations, strengthen accountability, and support organizational resilience.
- Provide Executive oversight of Smarter Balanced operational processes, including Finance and Human Resource practices, to ensure high quality, appropriate stewardship of public funds and member resources, and alignment with UC/UCSC policies.
- Monitor organizational controls to ensure that organizational products and services are of the highest level of quality. Oversee production planning, approval, and post-publication review processes.
- Serves the functions of the Executive Director when the Executive Director is not available.
- Provides strategic leadership and organizational alignment across the offices of External Affairs, Strategy and Product, Content, and Psychometrics, Research, and Project Management—ensuring cross-functional initiatives advance Smarter Balanced's mission, long-term vision, and stakeholder support.
- Supervises and develops executive officers, setting clear performance expectations, facilitating collaboration, and fostering professional growth through mentoring, accountability, and succession planning to ensure excellence in program execution.