SchoolHouse Connection, Senior Director, Strategic Execution

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION

Founded in 2016, School House Connection (SHC) is the nation's leading nonprofit dedicated to overcoming homelessness through early care and education. SHC works to ensure that children and youth experiencing homelessness, from prenatal through postsecondary education, have access to the educational opportunities and supports they need to thrive and break the cycle of homelessness.

SHC advances its mission through a unique combination of strategic policy advocacy, practical assistance, and grassroots partnership. Working alongside young people, families, educators, early childhood providers, institutions of higher education, service organizations, and policymakers, the organization develops practical solutions that improve educational access while driving lasting systems change at the local, state, and national levels.

Today, SHC's national network spans all 50 states and the District of Columbia and includes educators, school district homeless liaisons, state coordinators, higher education leaders, early childhood providers, researchers, advocates, service providers, and youth with lived experience. Together, they are working toward a future where every child and young person experiencing homelessness has access to high-quality education and the opportunity to achieve lasting stability.

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School House Connection (SHC) is entering a new phase of growth. As our work expands across programs, policy, communications, partnerships, and emerging state-based initiatives, we are creating a new senior leadership role to ensure our strategic priorities translate into coordinated, high-quality execution across the organization. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, the Senior Director of Strategic Execution serves as the organization's chief integrator, building and leading the planning processes, operating rhythms, and accountability systems that keep teams aligned, focused on the highest-impact work, and moving forward together.

This role is ideal for a strategic systems-minded organizational leader who excels at bringing clarity to complexity, helping leaders make thoughtful tradeoffs, and enabling others to succeed. Working in close partnership with the Executive Director and senior leadership team, the Senior Director will strengthen cross-functional collaboration, improve organizational effectiveness, and build and maintain the infrastructure that allows School House Connection to scale its impact while staying true to its mission.

1. Turn strategy into clear priorities and coordinated plans

• Partner with the Executive Director to translate SHC's strategic vision into a focused set of organizational priorities with clear outcomes, ownership, success measures, and realistic timelines that reflect organizational capacity.
• Translate annual goals into coordinated execution plans by aligning work across teams, identifying dependencies, and sequencing initiatives for maximum impact.
• Maintain visibility across programs, policy and advocacy, communications, operations, and emerging initiatives to identify misalignment, duplication, capacity constraints, and execution risks before they affect progress.
• Facilitate cross-functional prioritization and planning conversations that help leaders make thoughtful tradeoffs, align resources, and stay focused on the highest-impact work.
• Build shared visibility into organizational priorities, ownership, dependencies, timelines, and progress to strengthen alignment and coordination across teams.
• Ensure day-to-day decisions consistently reinforce SHC's strategic priorities and mission, prioritizing organizational impact over individual preferences or functional interests.
• Continuously assess organizational capacity and execution progress, recommending adjustments as priorities evolve or new opportunities emerge.

2. Build and lead the systems that enable organizational execution

• Design, lead, and continuously improve SHC's core planning and management processes, including annual retreats, quarterly planning, leadership meetings, progress reviews, and cross-functional planning cycles that keep the organization aligned and moving forward.
• Develop and maintain practical operating systems, planning tools, and dashboards that increase transparency, strengthen execution, and support better decision-making without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Design and facilitate effective meeting structures and operating rhythms that focus leaders on the highest priorities, produce clear decisions, and drive consistent follow-through.
• Strengthen organizational communication and information flow by documenting key decisions, clarifying ownership and next steps, and ensuring teams have the visibility they need to coordinate effectively.
• Establish and lead consistent planning, meeting, and accountability practices, including agendas, decision logs, meeting norms, and follow-up…