Director of School and District Partnerships

About EducationSuperHighway

EducationSuperHighway is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit that closed the K-12 broadband gap, connecting 99.3% of America's public schools to high-speed internet and helping 5 million low-income households get online. Now, EducationSuperHighway is turning those connections into opportunities — working to close the nation's literacy gap by providing literacy tutoring scholarships to first-grade students reading below grade level. We are a Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO) leveraging the new $3,400 Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC), effective January 1, 2027, to build the most ambitious literacy funding campaign in the country.

The Role
The Director of School and District Partnerships will build and own some of our most important relationships – those with the schools, districts and tutoring providers that serve our scholarship recipients. They sit at the intersection of strategy and execution with deep experience building relationships and implementing them once signed. They will ensure that every dollar donated to ESH drives impact for the schools and students who need it most.

This position owns the evaluation, selection and relationship building with our top school and district partners. Their work includes strategy, sourcing, relationship development and contract implementation. They will also create the infrastructure that underpins our literacy scholarship programs, which help us hit our tutoring goals to serve our mission. This includes the selection and integration of tutoring vendors, for example, in partnership with a district success manager.

The right candidate will be the leader and organizational expert on our school, district and tutoring provider requirements. They will feel comfortable working at every level and can confidently drive the right conversations with senior leaders from schools and districts nationwide.

Key Responsibilities

School and District Relationship Building

• Lead the strategy and execution of building, managing and expanding EducationSuperHighway’s formal partnerships with K-12 public schools, districts and charters.

• Shepherd districts and schools through the partnership process from interest form to a signed partnership agreement, developing and maintaining the system for prospective school and district partners. Apply this process consistently to update our partnership targets and evaluate districts that contact us.

• Build and execute a national outreach plan to acquire new school and district partners, identifying, prioritizing and conducting outreach to critical school and district partners and ensuring alignment with ESH’s larger national goals.

• Educate potential partners about EducationSuperHighway’s mission and its literacy scholarship program, confirming the value of partnering with ESH to deliver high quality tutoring to impact the reading outcomes of their students.

• Serve as the initial point of contact for all schools and districts, helping develop the workflow for how schools select and confirm eligible students for literacy tutoring and embed literacy tutoring into their school day operations.

• Work closely with internal Product, Marketing, and Operations teams to ensure seamless onboarding and delivery of services to partner schools and districts, including payroll giving for employees.

• Monitor and review new and ongoing district partnerships to ensure continuous program improvement and success, including developing a process for stakeholder input into ESH programs and operations via focus groups and / or other means.

• Represent EducationSuperHighway at education conferences, symposiums and industry events, as needed.

Partnership Management

• Develop the school district engagement and onboarding model, establishing how EducationSuperHighway identifies, approaches, and activates district partners where scholarships will be delivered.

• Build coordination workflows between school districts, tutoring providers, and scholarship operations to ensure students are identified, matched, and supported without operational gaps.

• Manage the sign-up process for new districts that we add to the ESH scholarship program network. This could include all work up-to and including the completion of all signed agreements.

What We're Looking For

Required

• 5-7+ years managing partnerships with and within schools and districts, with a track record of personally establishing new school-community relationships in service of advancing student academic outcomes.

• Direct experience working with and / or in a K-12 setting

• You've built a strategic partnership framework and system to support educational initiatives from zero, not inherited it, and you've shown results in ambiguous or first-mover environments.

• You can have a policy or operational conversation fluently with a School District Chief or principal, plus run a multi-stakeholder efforts across all levels in schools and districts

• Highly self-directed — you don't need a manager to set your weekly agenda.

• Genuine passion for closing the K-12 literacy gap.

Highly Valued

• Background in and deep understanding of the Science of Reading and elementary education, specifically early literacy

• Direct experience managing tutoring vendors and programs, especially high dosage tutoring models.

• Experience with CRM and other client management tools

• Familiarity with school district priorities and strategies, how they make decisions

• AI-forward: you actively use AI and systems to achieve your goals.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: $140,000, commensurate with experience.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits.

• Generous PTO and flexible remote work.

• The chance to build something from nothing and help close the K-12 literacy gap in America.

EducationSuperHighway is committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.