Education Technology Practice Lead

ATS+Partners (Advance Talent Solutions Inc.) is an AI-enabled consulting firm serving public agencies, education institutions, and mission-driven organizations. We connect strategy with execution through IT and professional services staffing, Salesforce and AI transformation consulting, and people engagement.

Our Education Practice advises schools and districts on technology strategy, infrastructure, procurement, systems and data, and the funding that supports those investments.

The Education Technology Practice Lead is the senior technical authority for our work with schools and districts. You will lead consulting engagements across technology assessment, planning, procurement, systems and data, and adoption while setting the technical and quality standards for the practice.

You will also oversee our federal E-Rate work. As a registered E-Rate consultant (CRN ), ATS requires senior review and approval of work submitted under our consultant registration.

We are building this practice, so this role goes beyond delivering engagements. You will help shape how we scope, deliver, document, and continuously improve our work while coaching the consultants and analysts supporting it.

Lead technology assessments and planning covering networks, wireless, connectivity, devices, systems, and refresh strategies.

Advise clients on technology procurement, requirements, and evaluation criteria.

Connect technology strategy with available funding without allowing funding to dictate the technology plan.

Serve as the senior technical advisor in client engagements.

Establish technical standards, methodologies, quality controls, and engagement documentation.

Review client work and coach Consultants and Analysts.

Identify opportunities to strengthen and expand ATS's education technology capabilities.

Partner with the Engagement Principal, who leads client relationships and commercial strategy.

Review and approve E-Rate filings and supporting documentation before submission under ATS's CRN.

Oversee competitive bidding, PIA responses, appeals, invoicing, and higher-risk or complex engagements.

Ensure E-Rate decisions and supporting evidence are clearly documented.

Maintain appropriate conflict-of-interest controls and separation between consulting and service-provider activities.

Significant experience leading education technology, IT consulting, or technology strategy engagements.

Strong knowledge of K-12 technology environments, including networks, wireless, connectivity, devices, systems, and procurement.

Experience advising senior school or district technology leaders.

Strong judgment, documentation, and quality-management skills.

Experience coaching or reviewing the work of other consultants or analysts.

Substantive E-Rate experience, including USAC processes, competitive bidding, filings, and compliance.

You deliver recommendations clients can act on, establish standards that produce consistently strong work, develop the team, and ensure E-Rate engagements are accurate, compliant, well documented, and delivered on time.

Hybrid work is anchored to our New York City office at 165 Broadway, 23rd Floor . Fully remote candidates in the continental United States may be considered if they can support Eastern Time client hours. Travel is approximately 10 to 20 percent .

$100 to $185 per hour , depending on experience. This is a fractional, hourly engagement to start, with the opportunity to grow as the practice develops.

Expected hours are approximately 10 to 15 per month during most of the year, increasing to approximately 40 to 60 per month during the January through March…