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Application Process: Submit resume and cover letter (required) to resume@nafsce.org. Applicants who apply without cover letter will not be reviewed.

Organization Overview

The National Association for Family, School and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) is a small and growing education non-profit founded in 2014, headquartered in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia. NAFSCE is the first membership association focused solely on advancing family, school, and community engagement (FSCE). Our mission is to advance high-impact policies, practices and research for family, school, and community engagement to promote optimal child development, student achievement and youth outcomes. Our vision is a world where family engagement is universally practiced as an essential strategy for improving learning, strengthening education and advancing equity.

NAFSCE, with its lead partner, the Early Math Collaborative at Erikson Institute, leads the Center for Family Math (the Center). As the national home for the growing Family Math movement, the Center aims to be the one-stop shop for practitioners, researchers, educators, advocates, funders, and the communities and families they serve. The Center's mission is to advance research, policies, practices, partnerships, and systems that unlock the power and love of math through family and community engagement. We envision a world where family math advances learning and equity for each and every child. A set of key values guides our work — we prioritize equity, believe that math is for everyone, lead alongside families, focus on strengths, emphasize strategies that work, and elevate partnerships and collaboration.

Position Overview

The Senior Manager of the Center for Family Math is a senior-level role for a sophisticated, self-directed doer who can independently drive a broad portfolio of programs, partnerships, and operational systems forward. Working in close partnership with the Director, the Senior Manager takes ownership across multiple complex projects simultaneously, managing details with care, flagging issues and opportunities proactively, and keeping the Director informed and well-positioned to make decisions. This role calls for someone equally at home coordinating a national virtual institute, presenting to diverse audiences, managing contractor relationships, and ensuring that the Center’s online presence is active and on-message. For the right candidate, this role offers a clear pathway to grow into a more senior position within the Center over time.

Duties

Program & Partnership Management

●     Own end-to-end management of multiple projects across the Center's portfolio, including communities of practice, webinars, conference exhibits and sessions, and resource development. Manage tasks and projects from planning through implementation and evaluation.

●     Build and sustain strong working relationships with parent leaders, researchers, educators, funders, and advocacy organizations, with consistency, responsivity, and cultural sensitivity.

●     Manage contractor and consultant relationships, including scopes, contracts, deliverable tracking, and renewals.

●     Work with NAFSCE’s Director of Research and Policy to support the Center's Research Consortium and Dissertation Fellowship program, through meeting coordination, translation of research into policy and practice, evaluation, and field engagement.

●     Help to monitor grant budgets and earned revenue (contracts and conference), flagging concerns early and keeping the Center Director and Director of Finance informed.

●     Maintain clear tracking systems across projects and provide the Director with regular, concise updates that support informed decision-making.

Communications

●     Serve as the Center's primary point of coordination with NAFSCE's communications team, providing content, context, deadlines, and approvals needed to keep the website, social media, newsletter segments, and blog current and effective.

●     Anticipate communications needs across programs and partnerships and bring them to the communications team proactively.

●     Engage and activate partner networks to extend the Center's reach.

Data & Learning Systems

●     Design and manage systems that support internal collaboration, partner engagement, and organizational learning.

●     Track reach and outcomes across projects, and translate data into clear insights for the Director, funders, and partners.

Center Operations & Strategic Execution

●     Represent the Center at conferences and convenings as an engaged and credible presence in the field.

●     Proactively surface issues, gaps, and emerging opportunities, bringing well-developed options and recommendations to the Director rather than problems alone.

Required Qualifications

●     Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree strongly preferred.

●     Six or more years of related work experience, with demonstrated growth into senior program or project management roles. Nonprofit experience is especially desirable.

●     Proven ability to independently manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously, with strong follow-through and minimal supervision.

●     Experience, expertise, and/or deep passion for math education, family engagement, and/or community partnerships. Demonstrated commitment to racial and intersectional equity

●     Exceptional organizational and project management skills, with a track record of managing competing priorities without losing quality or relationships.

●     Strong written and oral communication skills, including facilitating meetings and representing an organization externally.

●     A commitment to NAFSCE’s core values of equity, inclusion, collaboration and building trust, expressed in a collaborative working style that builds trust across diverse teams, communities, and partners.

Preferred Qualifications

●     Experience designing and delivering programming and resources for educators, family- and community-facing professionals, and/or families.

●     Direct experience working in or with education systems.

●     Experience contributing to grant writing, funder relations, or earned revenue management.

Location: This is a flexible, remote position, with up to 20% travel for in-person staff meetings and external conferences and presentations across the U.S.

Application Process: Submit resume and cover letter (required) to resume@nafsce.org. Applicants who apply without cover letter will not be reviewed.