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Attuned is hiring a Deputy Chief Schools Officer. This role involves developing the capacity of school and system leaders to design and implement equitable school strategies and plans focused on improving outcomes for underserved students. The Deputy Chief Schools Officer leads strategic planning, supports implementation of foundational school systems, provides coaching and feedback, and collaborates across teams to build leadership capacities and improve instructional quality.

Highlights

Lead development and implementation of strategic and annual plans for partner schools and systems.
Facilitate organizational diagnostics and data analysis to identify strengths and opportunities.
Support adoption of curriculum, social-emotional learning, and key instructional systems through an equity lens.
Conduct school walkthroughs, provide feedback, and deliver coaching to improve instructional practices and school culture.
Design and lead adult learning sessions on lesson design, data-driven instruction, and leadership development.
Collaborate internally to improve services, participate in hiring, and contribute to organizational growth.
Requires experience managing principals or principal managers and leading high-performing schools or systems.
Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism.
Salary range: $145,000 to $194,000 plus benefits.
Reports to a Chief Schools Officer and involves frequent in-person engagement with New England partners, mainly in the Boston area.

Deputy Chief Schools Officer Full Description

Deputy Chief Schools Officer

This is a virtual position requiring frequent in-person touchpoints with partners across the New England region. Candidates residing within commutable distance to Boston are preferred.

Attuned Overview

We are a team of experienced practitioners that combine empathy and rigor to help PK-12 systems and leaders become well aligned and well equipped to deliver breakthrough outcomes for all students—especially those farthest from opportunity. We understand what it takes to go from vision to impact.

“There always are folks who offer packaged solutions, but the best support providers are people who have lived and practiced the work and actually know there are no easy packaged solutions. The Attuned team offers deep expertise and thought partnership that is individualized and contextualized” (Aleesia Johnson, Superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools).

Founded in 2016, Attuned has earned the reputation as a trusted advisor, coach, and facilitator to schools and school systems across the country, as evidenced by

Improved Student Outcomes: 80% of our school system partners have seen academic gains. By year 2 of our support, 95% see gains and 70% even narrow proficiency gaps between Black and Latinx students and statewide peers. Furthermore, several of Attuned’s longest standing partners posted record gains in student achievement.
Instructional practices: 82% of our SY23-24 implementation school system partners saw growth in at least 2 of 3 observational instructional rigor indicators.
Net Promoter Score: We’ve established a strong track record with our partners, resulting in a best-in-class NPS of 90, suggesting a high level of satisfaction with our supports.
Tools and Resources: 97% of partners believe the tools and resources we co-develop continue to benefit them even after our support ends. They cite our unique ability to balance experiential and practical outcomes by attending to processes and relationships, ensuring that they are inclusive and accessible, while also ensuring the production of strong context-specific deliverables.

In order to meet the demand for our services, deepen our impact, and continue to focus on the health, wellness, and development of our team, we expect our team to continue to grow for the 2026-2027 school year.

Position Overview

The Deputy Chief Schools Officer (DCSO) develops the capacity of school and system leaders—including instructional coaches, principals, principal managers, regional superintendents, and CEOs—to create and implement equitable and excellent school designs grounded in research-based strategy and a commitment to DEIA.

An Attuned DCSO is motivated to support school and system partners to develop the plans, leadership capacities, and instructional knowledge needed to improve outcomes for historically underserved students, as measured by a set of agreed-upon annual improvement targets. A DCSO leads their partnerships with independence but also draws from a rich bank of Attuned resources and practices. As part of a Chief Schools Officer’s team, the DCSOs is assigned a set of school systems or schools to support either independently or as part of a larger project team.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Support the facilitation of strategic and annual planning to ensure partner organizations identify and focus on the highest-leverage practices to drive student outcomes and improve student culture and wellness, teaching and learning, and adult culture, development, and wellness.
- Partner with other Attuned team members to generate insightful and provocative organizational diagnostics that illuminate the strengths and opportunities of the partner organization, as discerned through an analysis of performance data, an analysis of artifacts, observation of instruction and schoolwide moments, and an analysis of constituent perspective.
- Partner with an Attuned Chief to develop precise and actionable multi-year strategic plans.
- Lead annual planning refreshes for partner schools and co-lead annual planning refreshes for partner systems.
- Partner with schools and systems to set measurable key results.
- Align all annual implementation supports to focus on achieving key results.
Lead the selection, development, and implementation of consistent materials, foundational systems, and approaches that improve school culture, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and adult development—all through an equity lens.
- Depending on the partner’s needs, the DCSO supports the creation and implementation of foundational systems, including: curriculum adoption of HQIM; social-emotional learning supports; student culture systems, and key instructional enabling systems such as data-driven instruction (DDI), observation and feedback, lesson and unit internalization (LPI/UPI), and high-quality adult learning systems.
- Support system leaders in developing team-based approaches to progress monitoring, reflection, and action planning to improve implementation of organization-wide systems.
- Collaborate with other Attuned members, as needed, to ensure school and system partners have access to deep content expertise.
Lead ongoing school-based walkthroughs, feedback, and coaching sessions to ensure priority materials and practices are implemented with quality, cultural responsiveness, and fidelity.
- Using Attuned’s walkthrough tools, deliver regular rounds of observation and feedback of classroom and schoolwide practices.
- Prep for, deliver, and follow-up on regular coaching to build the pedagogical content knowledge and leadership competencies needed to lead high performing schools and school systems.
- Facilitate on-site quarterly step backs to assess progress.
Partner across Attuned teams to develop and implement adult learning sessions and tools.
- Lead structured leadership capacity building opportunities on a range of topics, including lesson design and delivery, lesson and unit internalization, data driven instruction (DDI) cycles, observation and feedback, and PD delivery.
- Analyze and synthesize school and system practices to support Attuned’s ability to create useful resources for the broader field.
Support the growth and development of Attuned.
- Work in close collaboration with colleagues to develop, continuously improve, and deliver best-in-class services to schools and school systems, investing about 20% of your work week in internal learning and collaboration.
- Serve as a thought partner to colleagues, help solve a variety of day-to-day challenges, and generate creative solutions for internal and external improvements.
- Participate in the hiring process to identify diverse, values-aligned, and qualified new team members.
- Learn about and share evolving education trends and best practices with the team.
- Identify and help maintain and build new lines of work as the opportunity arises.

Who Should Apply?

Did you know that research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups often apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications? We believe that no one meets 100% of the listed qualifications. We are less concerned about whether you’ve done everything on a laundry list of specific things and more interested in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates who have prior experience managing and supporting principals and/or principal managers in their improvement and who want to join a connected, mission-driven, hard-working team of practitioners driven by equity.

If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply. This might be the right next role for you if you have:

Passion for our mission of dramatically improving PK-12 education for children from low-income communities.
Demonstrated track record of leading with a commitment to diversity equity, inclusivity and anti-racism.
Proven track record of realizing equitable and excellent outcomes for kids.
Experience as a leader of a high-performing school and/or school system.
Evidence of impact as a principal coach or supervisor.
Deep knowledge of curriculum and instruction, assessments, student culture, and adult development.
Evidence of deep content knowledge in one or more content areas.
Experience leading high-performing teams and managing staff.
Ability to coach, support and influence adults towards improvement.
Demonstrated ability to manage change and to discern and navigate complex system dynamics, including those that are politically charged.
Demonstrated ability to be self-directed, take initiative, and display tenacious follow through.
Outstanding project management skills—ability to see the big picture, create organizational systems, and manage details.
Strong written and oral communications skills.
Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, entrepreneurial start-up environment.
Learner stance, humility, and growth mindset.
Positive demeanor.

When/Where/How Much

Start date: September, 2026
Location: This is a virtual position requiring frequent in-person touchpoints with partners across the New England region. Candidates residing within commutable distance to Boston are preferred.
Travel: Most travel will be by car within the Greater Boston area. Travel is tied to school observation schedules and occurs primarily during the school year, averaging approximately 6 nights per month.
Salary range: $145,000 to $194,000 plus benefits

Position Reports To

This position reports to one of our Chief Schools Officers.

Application Process and Deadlines

If you are passionate about improving educational opportunities for historically underserved children, please submit your application below. We will be accepting applications until the end of day Monday, July 20, 2026.

Our hiring process will include multiple steps, including an application review, a culture screen, 1-2 performance tasks, which may require pre-work and may include a debrief, and a final interview.

Attuned does not review cover letters. Instead, we ask that you respond to a set of standardized questions below. If you are interested in more than one open role at Attuned, we suggest responding to the application questions in a separate document then copying your responses into each application.

Attuned is committed to building a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable organization. The broad range of experiences, ideas, and practices that our team members bring allows us to serve with excellence the diverse organizations with whom we partner. Attuned is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, color, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, or veteran status.

Original Job Description

Deputy Chief Schools Officer

This is a virtual position requiring frequent in-person touchpoints with partners across the New England region. Candidates residing within commutable distance to Boston are preferred.

Attuned Overview

Founded in 2016, Attuned has earned the reputation as a trusted advisor, coach, and facilitator to schools and school systems across the country, as evidenced by

Improved Student Outcomes: 80% of our school system partners have seen academic gains. By year 2 of our support, 95% see gains and 70% even narrow proficiency gaps between Black and Latinx students and statewide peers. Furthermore, several of Attuned’s longest standing partners posted record gains in student achievement.
Instructional practices: 82% of our SY23-24 implementation school system partners saw growth in at least 2 of 3 observational instructional rigor indicators.
Net Promoter Score: We’ve established a strong track record with our partners, resulting in a best-in-class NPS of 90, suggesting a high level of satisfaction with our supports.
Tools and Resources: 97% of partners believe the tools and resources we co-develop continue to benefit them even after our support ends. They cite our unique ability to balance experiential and practical outcomes by attending to processes and relationships, ensuring that they are inclusive and accessible, while also ensuring the production of strong context-specific deliverables.

Position Overview

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Support the facilitation of strategic and annual planning to ensure partner organizations identify and focus on the highest-leverage practices to drive student outcomes and improve student culture and wellness, teaching and learning, and adult culture, development, and wellness.
- Partner with other Attuned team members to generate insightful and provocative organizational diagnostics that illuminate the strengths and opportunities of the partner organization, as discerned through an analysis of performance data, an analysis of artifacts, observation of instruction and schoolwide moments, and an analysis of constituent perspective.
- Partner with an Attuned Chief to develop precise and actionable multi-year strategic plans.
- Lead annual planning refreshes for partner schools and co-lead annual planning refreshes for partner systems.
- Partner with schools and systems to set measurable key results.
- Align all annual implementation supports to focus on achieving key results.
Lead the selection, development, and implementation of consistent materials, foundational systems, and approaches that improve school culture, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and adult development—all through an equity lens.
- Depending on the partner’s needs, the DCSO supports the creation and implementation of foundational systems, including: curriculum adoption of HQIM; social-emotional learning supports; student culture systems, and key instructional enabling systems such as data-driven instruction (DDI), observation and feedback, lesson and unit internalization (LPI/UPI), and high-quality adult learning systems.
- Support system leaders in developing team-based approaches to progress monitoring, reflection, and action planning to improve implementation of organization-wide systems.
- Collaborate with other Attuned members, as needed, to ensure school and system partners have access to deep content expertise.
Lead ongoing school-based walkthroughs, feedback, and coaching sessions to ensure priority materials and practices are implemented with quality, cultural responsiveness, and fidelity.
- Using Attuned’s walkthrough tools, deliver regular rounds of observation and feedback of classroom and schoolwide practices.
- Prep for, deliver, and follow-up on regular coaching to build the pedagogical content knowledge and leadership competencies needed to lead high performing schools and school systems.
- Facilitate on-site quarterly step backs to assess progress.
Partner across Attuned teams to develop and implement adult learning sessions and tools.
- Lead structured leadership capacity building opportunities on a range of topics, including lesson design and delivery, lesson and unit internalization, data driven instruction (DDI) cycles, observation and feedback, and PD delivery.
- Analyze and synthesize school and system practices to support Attuned’s ability to create useful resources for the broader field.
Support the growth and development of Attuned.
- Work in close collaboration with colleagues to develop, continuously improve, and deliver best-in-class services to schools and school systems, investing about 20% of your work week in internal learning and collaboration.
- Serve as a thought partner to colleagues, help solve a variety of day-to-day challenges, and generate creative solutions for internal and external improvements.
- Participate in the hiring process to identify diverse, values-aligned, and qualified new team members.
- Learn about and share evolving education trends and best practices with the team.
- Identify and help maintain and build new lines of work as the opportunity arises.

Who Should Apply?

If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply. This might be the right next role for you if you have:

Passion for our mission of dramatically improving PK-12 education for children from low-income communities.
Demonstrated track record of leading with a commitment to diversity equity, inclusivity and anti-racism.
Proven track record of realizing equitable and excellent outcomes for kids.
Experience as a leader of a high-performing school and/or school system.
Evidence of impact as a principal coach or supervisor.
Deep knowledge of curriculum and instruction, assessments, student culture, and adult development.
Evidence of deep content knowledge in one or more content areas.
Experience leading high-performing teams and managing staff.
Ability to coach, support and influence adults towards improvement.
Demonstrated ability to manage change and to discern and navigate complex system dynamics, including those that are politically charged.
Demonstrated ability to be self-directed, take initiative, and display tenacious follow through.
Outstanding project management skills—ability to see the big picture, create organizational systems, and manage details.
Strong written and oral communications skills.
Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, entrepreneurial start-up environment.
Learner stance, humility, and growth mindset.
Positive demeanor.

When/Where/How Much

Start date: September, 2026
Location: This is a virtual position requiring frequent in-person touchpoints with partners across the New England region. Candidates residing within commutable distance to Boston are preferred.
Travel: Most travel will be by car within the Greater Boston area. Travel is tied to school observation schedules and occurs primarily during the school year, averaging approximately 6 nights per month.
Salary range: $145,000 to $194,000 plus benefits

Position Reports To

This position reports to one of our Chief Schools Officers.

Application Process and Deadlines

Our hiring process will include multiple steps, including an application review, a culture screen, 1-2 performance tasks, which may require pre-work and may include a debrief, and a final interview.

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