Executive Director (Educator III)

Description

 

The University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) is a nationally recognized center committed to the belief that all students deserve a schooling experience that builds their agency and self-efficacy, and ultimately leads to limitless futures for themselves, their families, their communities, and the world.

 

We are a practice-based, professional services center within the University of Washington’s College of Education (COE). Our office is in Seattle, Washington, where our shared values of curiosity, collaboration, learning, and integrity guide the work of our primarily remote team of 20. We value the people who make up our team, and we are relentless in our pursuit of impact.

 

CEL is a self-sustaining organization through program service fees and grant funding. CEL’s budget for the 2024-2025 school year is $3.2M in revenue and funding. Our organization is dedicated to partnering with courageous leaders in classrooms, schools, and the systems that support them to create cultures of rigorous teaching, learning, and leading. To do this, we offer a variety of evidence-based and research-driven professional learning services, all aimed at building teacher and leader capacity, including:

 

●      Multi-year system-wide engagements to build equity-focused instructional leadership capacity at scale

●      Programs to build role-specific skills, such as for principal supervisors and instructional coaches

●      Engagements with central office leaders to ensure school leaders have what they need to be successful

 

Over the last 5 years, we have facilitated professional learning: with:

●      Over 125  school systems in more than 30 states

●      1.75 million students served through our support of schools and system leaders

●      94% of CEL’s professional learning participants report that skills they’ve gained will lead to greater on-the-job impact

 

MISSION OF THE ROLE

CEL’s Executive Director will lead an exciting and dynamic organization focused on impacting the quality of school leadership. In its 23 years, CEL has grown to support hundreds of schools and districts across the country to strengthen their school leadership. The next executive director will expand on this vision, charting out the next 5-10 years of CEL’s journey, and will be responsible for harnessing the resources and excitement necessary to achieve this vision. Specifically, the executive director will grow CEL’s impact by expanding the organization’s current work through innovation to make its offerings accessible to more school systems and organizations, strengthening its long-term financial sustainability, attracting and retaining top talent, and broadening support for CEL's work in the research and philanthropic community. The executive director will be a visionary executive with an understanding of the professional learning needs of K-12 leaders, a proven network that can expand CEL’s work, a strong ability to collaborate with a team to innovate CEL’s offerings, and the strategic skill to help CEL adapt to the changing K-12 marketplace. The executive director will be excited to dig into the work, get to know our diverse and talented team, and support them in executing complex projects. This position reports to the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education.

 

This is a full-time, 12 month annual appointment at the non-tenure rank of Educator III. The base salary range for this position will be $17,917-$20,417 per month, commensurate with experience or qualifications. Other compensation associated with this position may include a relocation incentive.

 

The executive director’s time will likely be divided between

●      40% External relationship building with potential fee-for-service partners and funders while also growing CEL’s network

●      25% Actively engage in CEL’s field work, team learning, and innovation

●      20% Strategic planning and vision-setting for the organization

●      15% Internal team management and coordination

●      Please note: The executive director will travel nationally for conferences, field work, and networking opportunities. Travel will vary month to month, and up to 40% of the time will involve travel.

 

What is rewarding about the role

●      You will inherit a strong, stable team that is passionate about their work and is deeply skilled.

●      You will be coming into an organization with an outstanding reputation whose services are in strong demand.