Job Description:
• Support higher education project directors and leadership teams
• Solve problems and efficiently deliver results on key tasks and milestones
• Produce insights on state policy innovation and implementation
• Provide communications and analytical support to project leadership teams
• Lead quantitative and qualitative client analysis through data analysis, interviews, surveys, focus groups, and desk research
• Conduct policy analysis and design technical assistance on postsecondary education and workforce issues
• Support responsible AI use across the project team
• Produce data analysis, visualization, and insights with limited supervision
• Organize in-state and cross-state convenings of policymakers and practitioners
• Draft concept papers and proposals using AI to accelerate research and drafting
• Support grant/award administration and reporting
• Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
• Proven expertise contributing to complex, multi-year strategic initiatives across sectors, and/or managing less-complex, shorter-term initiatives
• Sophisticated collaborative skills and ability to navigate high-stakes partner dynamics
• Operational understanding of political challenges in state and regional education and workforce solutions
• Strong track record supporting multi-sector projects with high economic return goals
• Knowledge of higher education, workforce development, and economic systems
• Exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
• Ability to leverage emerging technologies such as AI
• Minimum five years of professional experience in a state education agency, intermediary organization, postsecondary institution, school district, workforce or economic development agency, or national nonprofit organization
• Master's degree in public policy, education policy, or related fields, or equivalent level of knowledge and experience
• Ability to travel as needed, projected around 25%
Benefits:
• Flexible work environment
• Remote/virtual work arrangement
• Ability to live and work where most productive
• Equal opportunity employment