Opportunity Culture Consultants (2026-27

Opportunity Culture® Consultants (2026-27)

We are currently building a pool of strong candidates for consulting roles supporting the Opportunity Culture® initiative at Public Impact®. Our projected workload for 2026-27 is growing, and we are now recruiting qualified candidates for anticipated start dates between September 1, 2026 and January 15, 2027.

We will review applications on a rolling basis, with benchmark deadlines of:
July 19, August 30, and October 4.

Note:

If you submitted an application for our fall/winter 2025-26 or spring 2026 consultant postings, you do not need to reapply.

Public Impact is a national education management consulting firm based in Chapel Hill, N.C. Our mission is to improve education dramatically for all students, especially those whose needs have not yet been well met.

Toward that end, we:

• Extend the reach of excellent teaching to all students, through Opportunity Culture School Design, an initiative to redesign staffing, pay and instruction for higher‑growth learning and educator satisfaction.
• Use data, research, and curious problem‑solving to create and spread high‑impact innovations and solutions for education policy and management challenges.

Role:
Consultants work on teams facilitating Opportunity Culture school transformations, using Multi‑Classroom Leader roles, Team Reach™ roles, advanced paraprofessional positions, and other innovative strategies to boost student learning and educator pay. Consultants support school and district design teams made up of teachers and administrators to plan, implement and improve new roles, schedules, budgets, and instructional changes, including small‑group tutoring.

Consultants should expect to:

• Guide educators and other leaders to design and implement Opportunity Culture School Design and instructional excellence.
• Learn from and be developed by colleagues with substantial experience collaborating with educators to implement school design models that achieve high‑growth student learning, field‑leading teacher satisfaction, and world‑class client satisfaction ratings.
• Support clients to design and improve Opportunity Culture implementation by following certification and validation standards correlated with student learning.
• Contribute to sales efforts to reach more students with Opportunity Culture models by identifying potential new clients and funding sources, drafting scopes of work, participating in sales calls, and other outreach efforts.
• Use meticulously‑honed materials and steps, edited annually to reflect data, research, and PI’s decade+ of experience collaborating with educators to redesign schools.
• Contribute to ongoing innovation for stronger results and processes.
• Participate in and later lead collaborative, diverse client/colleague teams of increasing size and complexity.
• Present Public Impact work accurately and influentially, in writing and speaking.
• Produce excellent technical work that impacts students and educators positively.

Qualifications:

We are recruiting for early - mid-level roles only at this time.

• Either of the following:
  • 5+ years of teaching or other relevant, school‑based or service‑oriented experience and demonstrated leadership competencies;
  • OR 2-4 years of teaching or other relevant experience, plus 1-2 years of a leadership role such as instructional coach, or similar;
  • OR 2-4 years of teaching or other relevant experience, plus formal training in leadership and/or systems change through a graduate degree in policy, management, law or a combination of these.
• Mission‑alignment:
  Strong commitment to improving academic outcomes for students.
• Achievement:
  Demonstrated ability to lead and implement change or improvement, with a bias for impact.
• Impact & Influence:
  Demonstrated ability to influence a wide variety of people and engage with others positively; has led others to make specific changes through formal or informal leadership.
• Teamwork:
  Demonstrated ability to collaborate in teams with diverse members.
• Quality Focus:
  Eager to give and receive feedback to produce outstanding work.
• Communication:
  Able to communicate complex ideas simply. Strong communicator through written and verbal work.
• Flexibility:
  Ability to…