Senior Program Officer, K-12 Field Readiness – Educators

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You are responsible for developing and executing investment strategies that prepare school-based educators—including teachers, principals, and coaches—to effectively adopt, implement, and use high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) and AI-enabled tools and solutions.

You design and manage a portfolio of grants and partnerships with the professional networks and associations that serve these educators, building practical capacity for safe, responsible, and effective use of AI-enabled components of full-stack solutions.

You have mastery-level knowledge of how school-based educators engage with and make decisions about instructional tools, and deep familiarity with the organizations, networks, and professional learning ecosystems that shape educator practice at scale.

Lead strategy and execution of a portfolio focused on building the readiness of educators (principals, teachers, and school-based staff) and their affiliated networks to adopt and effectively use AI-enabled, HQIM-aligned solutions, applying a strategic thinking and decision-making lens to connect investments to the team’s acceleration agenda.

Design and manage partnerships with key intermediaries and professional networks—such as subject-matter associations, school-based affinity organizations, and unions—to influence and support policy, selection, and implementation practices.

Lead grantmaking and performance-based investments that increase educator capacity to evaluate AI-enabled tools, implement HQIM with fidelity, and use AI responsibly to drive student acceleration.

The foundation’s U.S. Program (USP) K-12 team works to ensure that all students—especially Black and Latino students and students experiencing poverty—have access to high-quality instructional materials and AI-enabled tools that accelerate math learning and achievement. The foundation’s K-12 education strategy is organized around two objectives: demonstrating that AI-enabled full-stack solutions can drive meaningful student acceleration and preparing the field to adopt and scale those solutions responsibly. K-12’s Engagement team leads the work to ensure system leaders, educators, and their networks are ready to engage in ways that support their ability to make high-quality procurement decisions, implement solutions with fidelity, and sustain impact at scale. This team operates at the intersection of policy, practice, and product—building the conditions and relationships that make large-scale adoption of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) and AI-enabled tools possible.