Part-time Senior Manager, Science

Remote within Texas

This position is based in a home office anywhere in Texas.

WHO WE ARE

TNTP is the nation's preeminent education nonprofit that brings research, policy, and consulting together to meet the needs and aspirations of young people, families, communities, and the nation. We are educators, researchers, and innovators working to ensure every young person has the chance to reach their full potential, every educator and leader is set up for success, and every community has the resources necessary to connect young people to paths of opportunity.   

We work at every level of the PK-12 system, side by side with educators, system leaders, and communities across 41 states and more than 4,000 systems nationwide to reach ambitious goals for student success. Our vision pushes beyond school walls, catalyzing cross-sector collaboration to create pathways for young people to achieve academic, economic, and social mobility.  

Learn more about us, what we do, and working here.  

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Part-time Senior Manager, you will support a portfolio of academic, talent, teacher and leader development, and/or community engagement projects. You will contribute to state and regional strategy and help ensure individual projects are aligned to broader organizational priorities and goals for students. For this role, we are seeking team members with strong experience in education research, learning science, HQIM implementation, and Science content development. Successful candidates will be able to translate research and curriculum into clear adult learning materials, manage complex deliverables, navigate client and stakeholder dynamics with credibility, and strengthen work through high-stakes feedback and revision cycles.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Identify, review, and synthesize current research on effective instructional strategies in Science.

  • Locating credible, up-to-date research related to Science instruction, learning, and implementation of HQIM.

  • Distinguishing between strong research, emerging evidence, and general best practices.

  • Connecting research findings to instructional priorities, HQIM, and educator-facing practices.

• Translate Science instructional research into clear, practical guidance for educators and adult learning materials.

  • Turning research findings into concrete guidance, examples, tools, and training content for a diverse group of stakeholders.

  • Explaining the ‘why’ behind instructional strategies in ways that build educator understanding and buy-in.

  • Revising materials based on feedback while preserving research alignment and instructional clarity.

• Manage implementation and influence strategy for a large, state-level agency, including but not limited to:

  • Contributing to team/project goals, engaging in innovation in alignment with goals.

  • Managing timelines, deliverables, internal checkpoints, and workstream coordination to ensure high-quality work is completed on time.

  • Tracking deliverable progress across content development, review, revision, approval, and implementation stages.

  • Identifying risks to timeline, quality, alignment, or stakeholder confidence early and escalate concerns with recommended next steps.

  • Maintaining strong systems for organizing work, tracking decisions, documenting feedback, and ensuring follow-through across team members.

  • Balancing speed, quality, and accuracy in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities and evolving client expectations.

  • Tracking progress towards contract goals and making strategic decisions regarding project management and support

  • Contributing to the creation of high-quality, data-driven reports or other deliverables demonstrating the effect of the team’s approaches towards contract goals

• Develop, revise, and quality review materials while engaged in high-stakes feedback cycles

  • Conducting quality reviews of instructional and adult learning materials for content accuracy, research alignment, HQIM alignment, coherence, clarity, and usability.

  • Identifying gaps, inaccuracies, unclear explanations, or weak alignment and revising materials to strengthen credibility and instructional quality.

  • Reviewing materials for clarity, accessibility, and usability for facilitator