Senior Director of Programs

Senior Director of Programs
Full-Time | Remote with Travel

EdPrep Partners: A National Center for Quality Teacher Preparation

Overview
Every child deserves an excellent educator. Let’s give them one.
EdPrep Partners is a national nonprofit technical assistance center working to dramatically improve the quality of teacher preparation across the nation. We partner with educator preparation programs, state agencies, districts, funders, and other technical assistance providers to strengthen preparation systems, elevate candidate development, and expand high-quality. teacher preparation pathways, all in service of ensuring every teacher candidate is ready on day one.

We are seeking a Senior Director of Programs to serve as the senior leader responsible for running, integrating, and prioritizing EdPrep Partners’ core workstreams. This role leads the delivery of disciplined, high-impact technical assistance alongside our team and partners, while strengthening the systems, structures, and decision-making that ensure EdPrep Partners’ work delivers consistent, lasting impact as the organization continues to grow.

This role exists to ensure that EdPrep Partners’ full continuum of work – from program
performance reviews, to prioritized recommendations, to strategic action planning, to technical assistance implementation, to program and pathway expansion – translates into focused, feasible, and sustained changes in practice alongside our partners. The Senior Director ensures that diagnostic (Program Performance Reviews) findings and strategic priorities do not stop at insight, but move decisively into implementation support that improves preparation quality at scale.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Director owns portfolio-level decision-making related to sequencing, capacity allocation, and execution across EdPrep Partners’ active and future bodies of work. This includes determining where to focus effort, how work is staged over time, and how teams and partners are deployed to maximize impact without compromising quality.

1The Senior Director provides day-to-day leadership over how EdPrep Partners’ work shows up in practice, ensuring projects are well-scoped, teams are deployed intentionally, technical assistance is coherent and aligned, and commitments to partners are met with rigor and follow-through.
This role brings clarity and prioritization to a growing organization with an incredibly important mission, balancing urgency with sustainability, ambition with operational reality, and innovation with disciplined execution.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in educator preparation, strong judgment under complexity, and a disciplined approach to execution. This is a senior leadership role grounded in accountability, clarity, and results, designed to protect EdPrep Partners’ quality bar while enabling scale, focus, and long-term impact across states, partners, and workstreams.
Let’s make teacher preparation better together.

Core Responsibilities
Technical Assistance Strategy, Program Performance Reviews, and Delivery
● Lead and deliver EdPrep Partners’ technical assistance continuum, including program performance reviews, prioritized recommendations, strategic action planning, and implementation support, in close partnership with the Chief Executive Officer, Program Impact Manager, and implementation teams.
● Set clear direction and expectations for how technical assistance is designed and delivered across engagements, ensuring alignment to EdPrep Partners’ Performance Framework, the 14 Levers of Quality Teacher Preparation, locus of control, and a clear progression of change within partnering organizations.
● Ensure program performance reviews are conducted with rigor and consistency and result in clear, prioritized findings and recommendations that directly inform focused
improvement efforts and drive meaningful changes in leader, teacher educator, and
candidate practice.
● Design and lead structured support systems that guide programs from program
performance review findings, to prioritized recommendations, to strategic action planning, and into sustainable, measurable improvements in candidate development and preparation quality.
● Translate program performance review findings, partner needs, and organizational
priorities into a small number of clear, high leverage implementation priorities.

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● Ensure technical assistance moves beyond planning and intention, and results in sustained changes and continuous improvement in teacher educator practice, program structures, candidate development, and pathway quality.
● Provide direct technical assistance support as needed, particularly at critical moments of design, transition, or implementation, including:
○ Strategic planning and prioritization
○ Project management and progress monitoring
○ Tool development and process optimization
○ Modeling, professional learning, and capacity building
○ One-on-one and group coaching
○ Scale, sustainability, and systems planning
● Develop, codify, and continuously refine tools, protocols, and delivery structures that enable consistent, high-quality technical assistance across projects, partners, and contexts.
● Gather input and feedback from partners to continuously strengthen EdPrep Partners’ technical assistance approach, adapting strategies to meet evolving needs and accelerate the pace and depth of sustainable improvement.
Project Coordination and Implementation Management
● Coordinate technical assistance and implementation activities across sites and
workstreams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and partner communication are timely, clear, accurate, and impactful.
● Ensure technical assistance work is executed effectively across engagements by monitoring pace, resolving delivery challenges, and reallocating capacity as needed to meet commitments without compromising quality.
● Track and document progress against implementation plans and technical assistance
milestones using EdPrep Partners’ Performance Framework and internal progress
monitoring tools.
● Proactively monitor implementation to surface risks early, engage partners and internal teams in problem-solving, and ensure timelines, deliverables, and quality expectations are consistently met.
Team Development and Internal Capacity Building
● Build internal capacity for high-quality technical assistance by training, supporting, and coaching staff and contractors on diagnostic review design, technical assistance delivery,

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EdPrep Partners’ frameworks, tools, and expectations for rigor, professionalism, and
follow-through.
● Establish clear planning routines, calibration processes, and feedback structures that
promote alignment, shared understanding, and continuous improvement across teams
and engagements.
● Label and model high-leverage technical assistance practices, including project
planning, adult learning design, facilitation, observation and feedback, implementation
planning, and change management.
● Establish and maintain clear roles, responsibilities, and decision-making pathways across internal staff and contractors to ensure focused execution, efficient collaboration, and outcome-driven workstreams.
● Support staff and contractor development through professional development, targeted coaching, feedback, and performance guidance that strengthens execution while maintaining EdPrep Partners’ quality bar for world-class technical assistance.
● Strengthen internal systems and ways of working so teams are equipped to deliver
consistent, high-quality work without over-reliance on individual leaders.
Strategic Partnerships and External Collaboration
● Serve as a senior, partner-facing leader with educator preparation programs, districts, state agencies, funders, and peer technical assistance organizations during key moments of design, alignment, and implementation.
● Build and sustain trusted relationships with partners by ensuring EdPrep Partners’ work is responsive, disciplined, and delivers on shared goals for preparation quality, candidate readiness, and system improvement.
● Lead or support onboarding and scope development for new engagements, clarifying goals, roles, timelines, and expectations to ensure work is feasible, well-sequenced, and aligned to EdPrep Partners’ quality standards from the outset.
● Collaborate with the Chief Executive Officer and internal partners to co-design approaches and develop proposals that reflect local context and prioritized needs, while maintaining
EdPrep Partners’ expectations for rigor, focus, and impact.
● Engage partners throughout implementation to support alignment, surface risks early, and adjust approaches as needed to ensure progress, momentum, and sustained change.

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● Represent EdPrep Partners in external conversations, convenings, and learning
communities, elevating EdPrep Partners’ work, contributing to field-level learning, and
strengthening alignment across initiatives and organizations.
● Partner with the Chief Executive Officer and internal leaders to shape and expand EdPrep Partners’ portfolio through strategic planning, proposal development, and external engagement.
● Support funder and stakeholder communication by ensuring progress, challenges, and impact are communicated clearly, accurately, and grounded in evidence from
implementation.
Cross-Functional Collaboration, Thought Partnership, and Strategic Execution
● Partner closely with the Chief Executive Officer and senior team members to align strategy, priorities, and execution across EdPrep Partners’ core bodies of work.
● Integrate EdPrep Partners’ technical assistance, program performance reviews, pathway and program expansion, and data-informed improvement efforts so partners experience a coherent, aligned approach rather than disconnected initiatives.
● Serve as a thought partner to the Chief Executive Officer, team leaders, and project teams, supporting decision-making related to scope, sequencing, staffing, quality expectations, and partner commitments.
● Support proposal development, funder engagement, and strategic planning by ensuring new work is well scoped, executable, and aligned to EdPrep Partners’ frameworks, capacity, and quality bar.
● Identify patterns, lessons learned, and emerging needs across engagements and ensure they are translated into refinements to EdPrep Partners’ tools, frameworks, technical assistance approaches, and internal systems.
● Contribute to organizational planning and leadership routines that strengthen clarity,
accountability, and shared ownership across the team.
● Perform additional responsibilities as needed to support EdPrep Partners’ mission,
organizational stability, and long-term impact.

Qualifications

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We recognize that strong candidates bring varied experiences and pathways. Successful candidates will demonstrate many of the following qualifications and capabilities:
● Deep expertise in educator preparation, including program design, coursework and teacher educator practice, clinical and internship experiences, quality coaching and feedback, pathway design, and candidate development across traditional and alternative pathways.
● Demonstrated experience leading or overseeing program performance reviews,
diagnostics, or structured evaluations and translating findings into focused priorities and sustained changes in practice.
● Experience designing, delivering, or supporting high-impact technical assistance for
educator preparation programs, state agencies, districts, or aligned partners, with a clear understanding of how systems move from planning and compliance into implementation that improves practice and outcomes.
● Proven ability to lead complex, multi-workstream initiatives with responsibility for
prioritization, sequencing, and execution under real-world constraints, including making decisions about focus, scope, and capacity to protect quality and feasibility.
● Strong judgment in ambiguous environments and comfort serving as a senior leader who balances strategic intent with operational execution and follow-through.
● Strong facilitation, coaching, and adult learning design skills, with experience modeling high-leverage practices such as observation and feedback, implementation planning, professional learning, and progress monitoring.
● Ability to develop, refine, or adapt tools, protocols, and processes that enable consistent, high-quality implementation across partners and contexts.
● Strong relationship-building skills and experience serving as a trusted, partner-facing leader with educator preparation programs, state agencies, districts, funders, and peer organizations.
● Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate findings, priorities, and plans into clear, actionable next steps and to support funder and stakeholder communication grounded in evidence from implementation.
● A disciplined, execution-oriented working style with a strong bias toward action,
follow-through, and measurable impact.
● Comfort working in a growing organization where systems are evolving and leadership requires both building and doing.

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● Alignment with EdPrep Partners’ mission, values, and commitment to dramatically
improving preparation quality while respecting partner context and locus of control.
● Willingness to travel regularly and engage directly in on-the-ground work alongside
partners and teams.
● Experience with literacy preparation and/or structured literacy practices aligned to the Science of Reading, or numeracy aligned to the Effective Math Teaching Practices is a plus, but not required.

Additional Details
● This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States, with regular travel required (approximately 60%) to support in-person work with educator preparation programs, state and district partners, and regional or national convenings.
● The salary range for this role is $108,000 to $145,000 annually, commensurate with
experience and qualifications. Compensation reflects the scope, responsibility, and
leadership expectations of this role within a growing national nonprofit technical
assistance center.
● The Senior Director works closely with the Chief Executive Officer, other senior leaders, and project teams across EdPrep Partners to ensure strong coordination, execution, and impact across the organization’s work.
● While remote, this role requires a high degree of collaboration, responsiveness, and
initiative, consistent with EdPrep Partners’ commitment to partnership, accountability,
and delivering results for the field.

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

How to Apply
Interested candidates for the role should complete the application form linked here.

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About EdPrep Partners
Elevating Teacher Preparation. Accelerating Change.
EdPrep Partners is a national nonprofit technical assistance center. EdPrep Partners delivers a coordinated, high-impact, hands-on technical assistance model that connects program diagnostics with the support to make the changes. Our approach moves beyond surface-level recommendations, embedding research-backed, scalable, and sustainable practices that most dramatically improve the quality of educator preparation – while equipping educator preparation programs, districts, state agencies, and funders with the tools and insights needed to drive lasting change.

Let's make teacher preparation better together.

www.edpreppartners.org