Lead Associate, School-Age Programs P2

Job Category: Education

Requisition Number: LEADA
008527

• Posted :
  October 28, 2026
• Full-Time
• Remote

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Build Your Future, Brighten Theirs

At Save the Children, you’ll join a century‑long legacy of leading meaningful impact when it matters most. We empower you to innovate, collaborate and grow alongside people who share your commitment to kids and each other. You bring the drive – and together, we’ll build a better world for children.

The Role

As the Lead Associate for School-Age Programming, you’ll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring programs are implemented effectively and achieve results for the children we work with. Working on-site and remotely, you will provide training, technical assistance, and management support to a portfolio of program partners, including overseeing program implementation, monitoring, and evaluation at your assigned partner sites.

You will report directly to the School-Age Advisor and will work collaboratively with state and national colleagues to continuously improve our programmatic work across the state

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

* not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Partner Implementation and Quality

Coaching:

55%

• Conduct routine in-person and virtual site visits across assigned partner schools to observe educational rotations, coach partner staff, and monitor adherence to Save the Children program models.
• Deliver onboarding, curriculum modeling, and technical assistance to partner-employed site staff, leveraging educational technology and structured literacy/math frameworks.
• Monitor program quality using standard rubrics, providing written visit summaries and actionable coaching logs within standard turnaround timelines.
• Support site-level staff in maintaining daily student attendance, benchmark tracking, and progress-monitoring assessment schedules.
• Escalate persistent implementation roadblocks or staffing concerns promptly to the School-Age State Advisor.

Grant Compliance, Partner Operations & Fiscal Tracking: 25%

• Monitor site-level compliance with federal, state, and private grant requirements.
• Monitor partner site spending; review routine site expense submissions, receipts, and material requests against approved subaward line items.
• Track site-level burn rates against scheduled milestones (e.g., mid-year and year-end targets) to ensure materials and resources are utilized on schedule; flag unexpected variances or delays in spending to state leadership.
• Ensure 100% compliance with organizational and grant safeguarding protocols, verifying mandatory partner trainings and executing timely reporting within 24 hours.
• Escalate non-standard operational, budgetary, or partner performance issues promptly to the School-Age State Advisor and Assistant State Director.

Community Engagement & Stakeholder Support: 10%

• Represent Save the Children at local community events, family engagement nights, and regional partner showcases.
• Support state leadership with preparation and delivery of local and regional presentations highlighting program impact.
• Gather and submit compelling, fact-based success stories, quotes, and program photos from assigned sites to support communications and donor engagement.
• Actively participate in state and national Lead Associate meetings, peer working groups, and professional development sessions.
• Stay current on program guidelines, curriculum updates, and out-of-school time best practices.
• Provide informal peer guidance, shadowing, and onboarding support to new Lead Associates.
• Support state leadership with scheduled donor visits, regional…