This hybrid position can expect to be in-person for stakeholder meetings around Fort Worth and greater Tarrant County approximately 2-3 days per week and has the option to work out of a coworking space or home office for the remainder of the time. Actual in-person time may fluctuate week-to-week depending on priorities and scheduling. We trust employees to lead in managing their schedules and meetings in a way that puts them on track to achieve their goals and is responsive to partner and stakeholder needs.

About Fort Worth Education Partnership (FWEP)

At Fort Worth Education Partnership, we believe that every Fort Worth area student deserves access to a high-quality public education. In pursuit of that vision, FWEP supports, invests in, and coordinates opportunities that increase access to high-quality educational experiences. Through partnerships with non-profit and charter school operators, traditional districts, families, and the broader community, our work focuses on growing the impact of high-performing schools and networks, building a robust, high-quality talent pipeline, advocacy and community engagement, and strategically coordinating across partners to create the infrastructure that leads to the rapid growth of high-quality educational opportunities for all students.

The Role

As Director, Go Beyond Grades Campaign, you will lead the development and execution of a comprehensive and ongoing Go Beyond Grades program, focusing on empowering families with actionable knowledge about their children’s academic progress and fostering meaningful parent-teacher engagement. Building on the success of the Spring 2024 campaign, the program will prioritize deep collaboration with key nonprofit partners who collectively serve over 200,000 Tarrant County children annually.

This hands-on leadership role requires a strategic thinker with strong interpersonal skills to coach, collaborate, and oversee partner implementation. The Director will work closely with nonprofit leaders to tailor curriculum, align metrics, and encourage fidelity in execution. They will also drive data-informed decision-making to measure progress and demonstrate the program’s impact.

Responsibilities will include:

Program Strategy and Implementation (35%)

Collaborating closely with a selected group of nonprofit organizations and businesses to design a comprehensive and customized scope and sequence to support them in implementing tailored Go Beyond Grades curriculum and programming in alignment with each partner’s organizational goals, practices and programming.
Developing and implementing data collection systems that measure key outcomes such as 1) The number of parents completing the curriculum, 2) The number of parents accessing their school’s parent portal, 3) the number of parents using Go Beyond Grades online resources and 4) The number of parents who know their child’s academic proficiency, relative to grade level, and meet regularly with their child’s teacher.
Monitoring progress and implementation to ensure alignment with program objectives, adjusting plans as needed to maximize impact and directly supporting partner staff to ensure high-quality execution, as needed.

Community and Partner Engagement (35%)

Cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with existing partners, leveraging partnerships to facilitate parent and family engagement events, and ensuring resources reach targeted audiences.
Training and managing any part-time, hourly support staff to support events and provide hands-on guidance to parents on accessing academic performance data.
Motivating and influencing key community leaders and partners toward action in alignment with the goals of the Go Beyond Grades campaign.

Operational Management and Impact Measurement (15%)

Leading all aspects of program operations, including budget oversight, data monitoring, stakeholder communications, and impact reporting.
Ensuring robust data collection processes to track and analyze program metrics, enabling evidence-based decision-making.
Serving as the point of contact for all campaign-related activities, ensuring seamless coordination across stakeholders.

Curriculum Development and Training (10%)

Leading the development of a tailored Go Beyond Grades curriculum and supporting materials, including managing a contracted learning design consultant on key deliverables.
Tailoring Go Beyond Grades content and program to ensure it is reflective of research-backed learning practices and supporting partner organizations in their efforts to do the same.

Communications and Brand Building (5%)

Developing and implementing a targeted communication strategy to increase campaign visibility and directly reach parents and families.
Managing the campaign’s social media presence, ensuring consistent messaging across platforms and amplifying sponsor engagement.
Elevating the Go Beyond Grades brand locally, ensuring broad recognition and trust within the community.

Goals

In this role, your initial set of goals will include:

Meaningfully increasing the number of parents in partner organizations that accurately know if their child is on grade level, as compared to baseline data.
Supporting 100% of Go Beyond Grades sponsors that directly serve students and families to have a customized Go Beyond Grades strategy to integrate messaging and programming into their normal events.
Ensuring 70% of families served by youth-serving Go Beyond Grades sponsors have logged in to access their school’s parent portal and seen their child’s assessment results.
Significantly improving the number of parents who report meeting with their child’s teacher to discuss their academic progress and pursue supplementary learning resources.

What You Bring

As Director, you will be expected to be committed to the mission of the organization, that all children in the Fort Worth area have access to a high-quality public education, and supportive of FWEP's approach to accomplishing this vision, which is results-oriented and highly collaborative, working across a broad range of institutions, interests, relationships, and political realities.

Specific competencies include:

Mission Alignment: You have a strong personal commitment to ensuring that all kids in Fort Worth have access to a quality education.
Strategic Vision-Setting and Project Management Skills: You think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends, and know how to incorporate them into a project plan to pursue clear goals.
Quality Execution: Delivering high-quality products or results on time is important to you. You know how to plan to hit key milestones, are responsive, and can be counted on to deliver great work – building out big ideas and tending to the smallest details.
Data-Driven Mindset: You are thoughtful about what metrics to track to ensure the work is truly making the intended impact and monitor them relentlessly to ensure you can make informed decisions, adjust course, and demonstrate impact to stakeholders. This includes proficiency in designing data collection systems, analyzing metrics, and using insights to inform program improvements.
Agility and Adaptability: You learn new things quickly, implement necessary changes, and know when to ask questions and reach out for support. You are comfortable quickly defining priorities and with the possibility of them shifting as a response to needs and the environment.
Community Engagement Expertise: You deeply understand the local Fort Worth/Tarrant County community, particularly the educational landscape and local neighborhood organizations.
A Partnership Orientation: You know how to cultivate strong, trusting relationships and use your exceptional interpersonal skills to find common ground with a variety of stakeholders and constituencies and motivate and influence them to act.
Thoughtful Communication: Your writing is clean and simple. You consider your audience and use superb judgment, whether sending a quick email response or drafting a message for a large group. You know how to utilize communication skills as a tool to motivate action and build alignment across stakeholders.
Entrepreneurial Mindset: You know when to be a quick study to master situations, information, or skills easily and quickly and then believe in your own judgment, abilities, and skills to undertake new tasks and lead them to a successful outcome. You aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves to understand a challenge and strategically adapt.

Preferred Qualifications Include:

7+ years of experience within the K-12 school system and/or organizations that serve families in education and/or neighborhood services
Bilingualism in English and Spanish
Experience with curriculum development and program design
Proficient in data collection, analysis and building compelling visualizations

Compensation

Fort Worth Education partnership offers a competitive total compensation package commensurate with experience in a similar position. The target range to bring a candidate in for this role is $90,000 - $110,000. Within that range, our offer will be based on the candidate’s demonstrated skills and prior experience. A candidate with more robust similar experience and skill will be on the higher end of that range, and a candidate with less experience and relevant skills will be on the lower end. FWEP also aligns new salary offers to consider internal equity across positions and the scope of one’s work. As part of that package, Fort Worth Education Partnership provides robust benefits, including an annual performance-based bonus target, a 401k match at 100%, up to 5% of base salary, employer-paid life and disability insurance, and significant employer contributions towards medical and dental health insurance plans.

Fort Worth Education Partnership is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable characteristics protected by law.