Special Projects Manager to CEO

About Us
Our nation’s education system is leaving millions of students—including an overwhelming number of students of color and low-income students—unprepared for college, career, and life. While research shows that classroom teachers are the single most important in-school factor in improving student achievement, their diverse voices are consistently left out of education policy decisions. For far too long, teachers have been treated as subjects of change rather than as agents of change.

Founded by public school teachers, Educators for Excellence is a growing movement of 35,000 educators, united around a common set of values and principles for improving student learning and elevating the teaching profession. We work together to identify issues that impact our schools, create solutions to these challenges, and advocate for policies and programs that give all students access to a quality education.

What We Do
Our Theory of Change is grounded in two long-term goals that are inextricably linked: better outcomes for our students and the elevation of the quality and prestige of the teaching profession. We achieve these goals by changing policy at the district, state, and federal levels and transforming our teachers’ union to be more student-focused, democratic, diverse, and anti-racist. United around our Declaration of Teachers’ Principles and Beliefs , we are building a powerful movement to lead this change by:

• Organizing educators who share a common vision of equity and excellence in schools,
• Training and supporting teacher leadership, and
• Advocating for teacher-led recommendations at all levels of government, within teachers’ unions, and in the public conversation around education.

Educators for Excellence (E4E) envisions an equitable and excellent education system that provides all students the opportunity to succeed and elevates the teaching profession.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Chief Advancement Officer and directly supporting the CEO, the Special Projects Manager (SPM) will support E4E’s next phase of development by serving as a trusted operational lead for the CEO, the Executive Team, and select organization-wide priorities. The SPM manages complexity, creates clarity, and ensures senior leadership time, attention, and workflows are aligned to organizational priorities through strong systems, scheduling, and execution.

This role requires deep, daily partnership with the CEO and close coordination with the Executive Team. The Special Projects Manager will regularly connect with the CEO to align on priorities, troubleshoot obstacles, and adjust plans in real time, while also supporting Executive Team coordination, internal communications, culture-building efforts, and special projects as capacity allows. This role is well suited to someone who genuinely enjoys complex scheduling, fast-paced problem-solving, and being in constant motion behind the scenes to keep senior leaders and the organization operating at their best.

The ideal candidate is a highly organized, detail-oriented, and relational professional with experience supporting senior executives in fast-moving, high-volume environments. They exercise strong judgment, anticipate needs, and translate big-picture priorities into clear next steps, calendar decisions, and follow-through. They are also a culture leader – someone who embodies E4E’s core values and brings calm, clarity, and accountability to complex work.

Scope:
What is the nature of the role?

The Special Projects Manager to the CEO will:

In service of supporting the CEO:

Working in close partnership with the Chief Advancement Officer and CEO, the Special Projects Manager will serve as a trusted operational lead for the CEO – anticipating needs, managing complexity, and ensuring the CEO’s time, attention, and energy are aligned to organizational priorities.

• Maximize the efficiency, organization, and execution of the CEO
  • Own and continuously optimize the CEO’s extremely active calendar, ensuring it reflects strategic priorities, energy management, and real-time tradeoffs; serve as a trusted gatekeeper who independently prioritizes and sequences internal and external requests
  • Own and…