Deputy Executive Director
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Edgility SearchEducation, Assessment
United StatesFull-TimeExecutive
Salary211,900 - 237,760 USD per year
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Requirements
- Advanced degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
- Proven experience in serving as an executive to support state and national organizations in their development and use of effective assessment systems aimed at improving teaching and learning.
- Proven experience in addressing complex political landscapes in a manner that positions the organization for long-term success and prioritizes relationship-building among stakeholders.
- Proven experience scaling systems while demonstrating commitment to accuracy, accessibility, fairness, and maintaining public trust.
- Highly developed leadership abilities with demonstrated success in developing high-performance teams, managing organizational change, and motivating and influencing others as necessary to achieve organizational goals.
- Proven experience leading and developing a team of executives to establish goals aligned with the organization's mission and maximize organizational outcomes.
- Experience ensuring that organizational practices, services, and behaviors support and promote collaboration among staff.
- Proven experience in establishing and implementing strategic plans to empower the organization to better fulfill its mission.
- Thorough knowledge of large-scale educational assessment and experience in working directly with state staff to arrive at technical assessment solutions that meet their needs.
- Thorough knowledge of the organizational environment of state departments of education to understand client priorities, issues, motivations, and constraints.
- Thorough knowledge of the federal law and general knowledge of states’ laws regarding K-12 assessment and accountability, and procurement.
- Highly developed decision-making skills that include consensus-based decision-making and input and guidance from several constituents (e.g., executive board, customers, advocacy groups).
- Proven capacity to adapt to unexpected and high-stakes issues with a track record of providing executive oversight in supporting an expedient resolution that addresses the needs of the organization and is consistent with best practices in educational assessment.
- Ability to travel 1-2 times per month.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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