Senior Director of Field Education

Teton Science Schools is a mission driven nonprofit organization that connects people, nature, and community through place-based education. Through immersive outdoor learning experiences across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, TSS helps students, educators, families, and partners build curiosity, leadership, scientific understanding, and a stronger connection to place.

The Senior Director of Field Education provides strategic and operational leadership for TSS’s Field Education programs, also known as the Outdoor Learning School. This position leads programming across multiple campuses and ensures that educational quality, participant experience, staffing, financial performance, safety, and operations remain aligned with the mission and strategic direction of TSS.

As the senior leader for Field Education, this position develops long term department strategy, leads and mentors a high performing leadership team, and represents Field Education in organization wide planning and decision making.

• Lead the vision, strategy, and long term direction of Field Education in alignment with the TSS mission and strategic plan.
• Represent Field Education in organizational leadership, planning, policy development, and decision making.
• Translate organizational priorities into clear department goals, operating plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen, expand, and evolve outdoor education and place based learning programs.
• Collaborate across TSS to coordinate people, programs, finances, facilities, and shared resources.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide support during program emergencies or disruptions.

• Ensure Field Education programs provide high quality, mission aligned learning experiences.
• Guide the development, evaluation, and continuous improvement of curriculum, instructional practices, and participant experience.
• Establish clear expectations for educational quality, program impact, and partner satisfaction.
• Ensure programming reflects TSS operating standards, educational philosophy, and commitment to inclusive learning environments.

• Lead, mentor, and support Field Education directors and other department leaders.
• Build a collaborative leadership structure with clear roles, accountability, communication, and shared priorities.
• Develop leadership capacity through coaching, feedback, professional development, and succession planning.
• Partner with Human Resources and department leaders to strengthen recruitment, onboarding, training, retention, and employee development.
• Promote a department culture grounded in trust, service, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Provide oversight of Field Education operations across campuses and program locations.
• Ensure effective systems are in place for scheduling, logistics, transportation, equipment, enrollment, risk management, and program delivery.
• Evaluate department systems and workflows to improve consistency, efficiency, and scalability.
• Develop and manage the Field Education budget in partnership with Finance and department leaders.
• Maintain accountability for revenue, expenses, staffing models, program margins, and overall financial performance.
• Use program and financial data to guide decisions related to pricing, capacity, investment, and resource allocation.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with schools, community partners, funders, agencies, and other stakeholders.
• Evaluate existing partnerships and identify opportunities to strengthen or expand strategic relationships.
• Partner with Marketing, Communications, Development, and…