EP Fellowship - career track Projects

The Work You'll Lead as an EP Fellow

Education Pioneers Fellows have developed expertise in four priority areas prior to the EP Fellowship: data and analysis, strategy and planning, operations, and program and project management. They are eager to use their skills in a new way to create equity and opportunity for all students, and are ready to dive in on day one.

DATA AND ANALYSIS ROLES

STRATEGY AND PLANNING ROLES

OPERATIONS ROLES

PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT ROLES

Our Partners especially need leaders who can interpret student data, make strategic recommendations, and tell stories with numbers.

Our Partners seek leaders who bring deep strategic expertise to lead growth, community engagement, human capital, and much more.

Our Partners seek leaders with operational aptitude to build efficient and effective systems that maximize resources for students.

Our Partners need skilled managers to support the success of critical, short- and long-term initiatives.

View a Selection of Early Start Opportunities by Priority Area:

Data and Analysis // Strategy and Planning // Operations // Program and Project Management

DATA AND ANALYSIS

Opportunity 1: Support Analyst for a Charter School Organization

Opportunity 2: Human Resources Data Analyst for a School District

Opportunity 3: Research and Evaluation Associate for an Education Venture Philanthropy Organization

Opportunity 4: Director of Data for a Charter School Organization

STRATEGY AND PLANNING

We currently don’t have strategy and planning roles for early start opportunities. However, we expect to have strategy and planning roles in future career track placement cycles; strategy and planning are among the top needs of our Partner organizations.

OPERATIONS

Opportunity 1: Operations Project Manager for a School District

Opportunity 2: Director of Operations for a Charter School Organization

PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Opportunity 1: Associate for a Policy Nonprofit

Opportunity 2: Project Manager for a School District

Opportunity 3: Program Analyst for an Education Nonprofit

DATA AND ANALYSIS

Data and Analysis Opportunity 1

Partner Organization: Charter School Support Organization

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Fellow Role: Support Analyst

Overview: Help charter schools analyze their student data to know how they are performing as an organization, and as a result, support all students to achieve at high levels.

Why this Role Matters: Schools and school systems have a lot of important data that can help them better serve all students. At the same time, they need data experts who can gather, clean, and process meaningful data; make strategic recommendations from their findings; and help school staff become more fluent in using data analysis.

Sample Responsibilities:

Support data capacity of charter schools by sharing best practices and updating systems.
Develop, design and write necessary programs and documentation for database systems and ensure appropriate content and format of data to support report generation.
Provide actionable analysis to key stakeholders through coaching conversations, in-person presentations, PowerPoint decks, etc.
Provide training on data analysis, data systems and appropriate use of data to charter staff and provide technical advice on data analysis and research methodologies as needed.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Have technical expertise in gathering and synthesizing data from multiple systems and formats, performing calculations on those joined data, checking results for accuracy, and reporting in specified formats;
Are adept at writing queries, creating reports, and presenting findings;
Are skilled at Excel, SQL, and/or other data processing software;
Can communicate well, including with tact, patience, and courtesy with all stakeholders.

Data and Analysis Opportunity 2

Partner Organization: School District

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Fellow Role: Human Resources Data Analyst

Overview: The district’s goal is to find, keep and grow extraordinary adults who are committed to providing incomparable instruction, services and schools for students. Improved human capital data management will help the district reach their goal.

Why this Role Matters: To achieve great outcomes for students, the people who work in schools and districts are essential. For school districts can provide students with the most effective teaching, leadership, and support, they also need to provide employees with the most effective professional growth and learning opportunities -- targeted to those adults’ needs, which can be best understood and addressed through smart human capital data management.

Sample Responsibilities:

Collaborate with internal HR teams to build capacity around key HR processes, like teacher tenure and employee discipline.
Create business rules for HR data in preparation for HR technology implementation, including some historical data analysis and clean-up.
Analyze human capital and talent-related data around issues like teacher tenure, credentialing, absenteeism, etc.
Lead process documentation and redesign effort in preparation for HR technology implementation.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Have expertise in working with human capital data;
Understand the importance of having a robust, strategic human capital function;
Believe that the best way to serve all students is to ensure the adults who work on their behalf are also supported to thrive -- and that smart human capital data management is essential.

Data and Analysis Opportunity 3

Partner Organization: Education Venture Philanthropy Organization

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Fellow Role: Research and Evaluation Associate

Overview: To create next-generation schools, organizations invest in schools that foster innovation through great teaching, new classroom models, and technology.

Why this Role Matters: Our world changes at a rapid pace, yet many of the schools and systems where the majority of students learn are outdated. The Research and Evaluation Associate will perform key academic and financial analyses to help determine how we can build next-generation schools most effectively.

Sample Responsibilities:

Collect and analyze data across a portfolio of schools, reporting out on performance and key trends internally and externally.
Perform key analyses that include: financial analysis, school financial model budget vs. actuals, and state assessment performance.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Are a skilled data/analysis expert;
Have an entrepreneurial, strategic orientation;
Devise solutions to problems and create opportunities;
Are a strategic thinker or problem solver.

Data and Analysis Opportunity 4

Partner Organization: Charter School Organization

Location: New York

Fellow Role: Director of Data

Overview: Charter school organizations are transforming the lives of children in New York by providing them with an excellent education. The organization has received national prominence as one of the highest performing urban schools in the country.

Why this Role Matters: To support teachers’ and principals’ success, the organization empowers its operations team to maintain efficient systems and remove obstacles. The Director of Data plays a critical role in supporting students' success by helping to build data systems that will get more data into the hand of parents, teachers, and school leaders, and providing leaders with timely information, insightful analysis, and thought leadership using data. This role drives smart decisions and continual improvement across the organization.

Sample Responsibilities:

Manage all external data reporting for numerous stakeholders.
Continuously improve processes, create specialized systems, and implement new technologies to enable great effectiveness and efficiency.
Evaluate, streamline and oversee data systems and internal reporting.
Support analysis of student and school data to improve student, teacher, and school performance.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Have a track record of success in data systems, analysis, and reporting, including using data to recommend strategic improvements to an organization's performance;
Have experience with PowerSchool, ATS, SESIS or another educational database;
Are a smart, motivated, high performer, with superlative organization skills, attention to detail, a strong sense of urgency and a customer service focus;
Care about students receiving the best possible education, see the importance of data to support their education, and you want to grow in the education field;
Are able to connect with people quickly and effortlessly, and get around any obstacle in order to accomplish ambitious goals.

STRATEGY AND PLANNING

OPERATIONS

Operations Opportunity 1

Partner Organization: School District

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Fellow Role: Operations Project Manager

Overview: The school buildings and classrooms where students go to learn are an important element of their educational experience. All students need access to classrooms and schools that support their learning -- and don’t inhibit it (because of challenges like disrepair or outdated buildings).

Why this Role Matters: Strong operations managers can ensure that all students have access to school buildings and classrooms that support their learning. They’ll manage a school district’s facilities operations, including planning, coordinating, and developing the scope, design and construction of new school buildings and facilities and the alteration, addition and relocation of existing buildings and structures.

Sample Responsibilities:

Plan, coordinate and manage the design and construction of assigned school facilities’ projects with school staff, architects and contractors.
Perform value engineering/plan checking and project cost estimating for project budget estimate.
Attend and provide expertise in meetings with architects and school administrators.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Have an engineering background (or a degree in architecture or construction management) and/or strong experience managing large-scale projects;
Have deep experience in construction, design, or planning.

Operations Opportunity 2

Partner Organization: Charter School Organization

Location: New York

Fellow Role: Director of Operations

Overview: Nearly 1,500 students in pre-K through eighth grade are served by a New York charter school organization. The Director of Operations, a member of a school’s leadership team, will lead finance, operations, team management, school facilities, technology, human capital, and more to ensure that all students and staff are supported to achieve at high levels.

Why this Role Matters: Running schools well -- from finance to facilities -- impacts the educational experience that students have at schools. Effective operations management ensures that resources are driven to classrooms to support students’ learning.

Sample Responsibilities:

Manage a school office team, an operations team, and collaborate with other Directors of Operations.
Ensure that the school meets or exceeds its goals regarding: (1) state, federal and charter authorizer compliance; (2) general fiscal accountability (i.e. support with budgeting and cross-network purchases); and (3) technology infrastructure support.
Lead finance and purchasing; school operations, logistics, and facilities; technology; compliance and reporting; human resources; student recruitment and external relations.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Have deep business and operations experience, with success in managing teams and/or multiple large projects;
Are a project management superstar who can handle multiple priorities at once;
Are a financial whiz who has comfort and expertise in financial oversight and budgetary tracking;
Bring strong analytical and strategic thinking, as well as keen problem solving skills, to the table

PROGRAM AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Program and Project Management Opportunity 1

Partner Organization: Policy Nonprofit

Location: Remote, with travel to New York City and Washington, DC

Fellow Role: Associate (Project Manager)

Overview: Nonprofit organizations can play critical roles in helping prepare all students to thrive in and beyond school. This organization brings together top-ranking district and state education leaders to advocate for the policies and practices that work for students, facilitate a robust system of peer-to-peer advising, and sustain a pipeline of the next generation of leaders.

Why this Role Matters: The Associate will help create, plan, and execute programming to recruit and support district and state education leaders, to ensure that all students are served well.

Sample Responsibilities:

Work closely with senior leaders to create recommendations, detailed timelines, and project plans for programming, strategy work, and new initiatives.
Perform policy research and identify innovative solutions and best practices from local, state, and national resources to help design programs.
Create and deliver presentation materials and analysis, support materials, presentations, brochures, charts, graphs, infographics and other materials to visualize data.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Have experience in developing programming for senior education leaders, educators, or policy practitioners;
Have led or supported large-scale change initiatives in education or other sectors, ideally with a focus on human capital management;
Are a strong project manager;
Are skilled with research, data, and statistical analysis.

Program and Project Management Opportunity 2

Partner Organization: School District

Location: Chicago

Fellow Role: Project Manager

Overview: School districts are responsible for the education of thousands of students and have ambitious goals to ensure that all children have access to a high-quality education.

Why this Role Matters: Skilled project managers can ensure that district initiatives are implemented successfully, on time, and on budget. They are responsible for working across teams and with a variety of stakeholders to help ensure that limited resources are directed to schools and classrooms where they can benefit students the most.

Sample Responsibilities:

Define project scopes, initiate and manage small to midsize critical areas of project.
Create and execute project work plans, revising as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
Plan, direct, and implement complex projects on time, within budget and with desired functionality.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Have project management experience, including in a large organization where you led complex projects that required significant cross-functional collaboration;
Have experience in and a knack for leading and supervising teams successfully;
Have exceptional project management and time management capabilities, including ability to establish long-term vision and goals and reach them.

Program and Project Management Opportunity 3

Partner Organization: Education Nonprofit

Location: Boston

Fellow Role: Program Analyst

Overview: Nonprofit organizations play important roles in supporting high-quality opportunities for all students. This Boston organization helps provide schools and access to learning that engages students and prepares them for college and 21st century careers. Through applied learning, an engaging and rigorous approach, teachers facilitate student mastery of 21st century skills like critical thinking, collaboration, perseverance, and digital literacy.

Why this Role Matters: Careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are growing at twice the rate of non-STEM careers. Yet too few schools prepare students for careers in STEM: currently, America is ranked 27th in math competency and 20th in science, among industrialized nations. The Program Analyst will help build an organization from the ground up, and establish it as the resource for high-quality STEM programming.

Sample Responsibilities:

Design and evaluate STEM offerings, develop analytical tools to assess school level programming, and support strategic refinement through quantitative and qualitative assessment.
Develop new student events and competitions to allow students to expand their coursework beyond the classroom and connect with industry mentors.
Help design a model school system to showcase programming and serve as a model site from which other schools can learn.

This Role Could Be a Good Fit for You if You:

Approach problems with an analytical orientation, take initiative, and solve problems;
Are a data and technology super star, including proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Access/SPSS/Salesforce, social media, and website design;
Thrive in start-up environment and can build systems from scratch.

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If you're not yet convinced this is the right opportunity for you, tell us more about yourself to learn more about the impact your expertise can have on the education sector. You can also learn more about the accelerated admissions process for early starts here.