The Opportunity
At YouthTruth, we equip education leaders and funders to integrate on-the-ground insights into planning, professional development, and improvement processes. For over 15 years, YouthTruth has led the movement to use research-backed survey instruments to learn from the student experience to improve by listening to student voice. As Director of Partnerships, you will have the opportunity to foster new and existing partnerships that advance our mission of centering student voice and experiences to improve education. Your work will make a difference through growing our reach and connecting more schools and systems to YouthTruth’s services and offerings to improve education and the lives of young people.
Position Overview
The Director of Partnerships is a key member of the YouthTruth leadership team, leading all business development, client partnerships, and advisory services to achieve our mission of empowering students, families and staff as critical drivers of school improvement. Reporting to YouthTruth’s Vice President, the Director is responsible for developing and executing earned revenue plans that drive impact and support and financial health and sustainability. The Director is also a member of YouthTruth’s leadership team, which oversees all of YouthTruth’s goals and strategies, ensuring that our people, culture, research and communications, and products and services all lead to impact. This role is based in our San Francisco office.
Key Responsibilities
Managing Earned Revenue Pipeline
Partnerships and Advisory Services
People Leadership and Management
Travel is required up to 40% of the year, though some months are heavier than others.
Candidate Profile
The role requires the ability to be a team leader as well as drive implementation. The successful candidate will be passionate about centering student voice in the work of education improvement and will bridge a systems-change mindset with YouthTruth’s approach to partnering with schools. They will bring their experience working in schools and/or education systems to bear in achieving YouthTruth’s goals, particularly as it relates to engaging administrators as partner clients, delivering and evolving our advisory services, and using field experience to inform YouthTruth’s broader research and communications efforts. The successful candidate will possess many, though perhaps not all the following competencies, skills and characteristics:
Other desired professional qualities include:
The Opportunity
At YouthTruth, we equip education leaders and funders to integrate on-the-ground insights into planning, professional development, and improvement processes. For over 15 years, YouthTruth has led the movement to use research-backed survey instruments to learn from the student experience to improve by listening to student voice. As Director of Partnerships, you will have the opportunity to foster new and existing partnerships that advance our mission of centering student voice and experiences to improve education. Your work will make a difference through growing our reach and connecting more schools and systems to YouthTruth’s services and offerings to improve education and the lives of young people.
Position Overview
The Director of Partnerships is a key member of the YouthTruth leadership team, leading all business development, client partnerships, and advisory services to achieve our mission of empowering students…
Our nonprofit model is central to our identity: our bottom line is impact, not profit. Yet even as a nonprofit, we successfully compete for top talent across both the public and private sectors and offer competitive compensation and benefits including:
We strive to balance in-person time with flexibility and the needs of each person, their team, and the larger organization. We believe culture, collaboration, communication, trust- and relationship-building, training, and certain kinds of creative work benefit from in-office interactions – and we believe that the flexibility of remote work also has many advantages. We expect staff to be in the office at least two days per week, and more frequently during new staff introduction periods to support a robust orientation. Everyone will enjoy the option to work fully remotely from anywhere four weeks per year.
Our nonprofit model is central to our identity: our bottom line is impact, not profit. Yet even as a nonprofit, we successfully compete for top talent across both the public and private sectors and offer competitive compensation and benefits including:
We strive to balance in-person time with flexibility and the needs of each person, their team, and…