Director, School Partnerships

Reports to: VP, Impact

Team: Impact

Location: Hybrid (2-3 days/week in Oakland)

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Range: 175k – 195k annually plus 7.5% discretionary annual bonus

Priority Final date to receive applications is October 26

Founded in 2019 by Stephen and Ayesha Curry, Eat. Learn. Play. is working to transform the public-school experience for a generation of Oakland kids. Our Whole Child, Whole School approach invests in four priorities: closing the literacy gap, creating incredible spaces within schools, providing nutritious food for kids and families, and ensuring access to the joy of sports. To date, Eat.

Learn. Play. has served more than 35 million meals, placed over 1 million books in kids’ hands, transformed 24 Oakland schoolyards, and invested more than $100 million in Oakland students.

The Director, School Partnerships, a new role in the organization, plays a key management role on the Foundation’s Impact team. Reporting to the VP of Impact, the role leads new school site investments in collaboration with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), beginning with a select group of elementary schools where we aim to transform the school experience and student outcomes.

This role brings the education expertise, school and district relationship management, and project management capacity needed to translate ELP’s Theory of Change into coherent, measurable school-level plans. In these schools, ELP is investing in several things at once, including, but not limited to, nutritious food, transformed schoolyards and high-quality play opportunities, literacy tutoring, and professional development for teachers. The Director works with the VP, Impact, and CEO to design the program so that these investments add up to more than the sum of their parts.

This role is a strong fit for a senior education leader who can move between strategy and execution, builds trust across schools, the district, and community stakeholders, and is energized by ELP’s mission. They bring real education expertise, so principals and teachers see a colleague and not only a funder.

• Translate ELP’s Whole Child, Whole School approach into a practical model for how the Foundation invests in a select group of OUSD elementary schools, including how schools are selected, how plans come together, and how the work actually gets done.
• Bring ELP’s programmatic investments into one coherent plan at each school, so the pieces reinforce one another.
• Iterate on the model based on what implementation teaches us, codifying what works into a replicable approach that can grow to additional schools.
• Define what a strong ELP–OUSD school partnership looks like, and the enabling conditions, literacy strategies, and whole-child supports that shape student learning and experience.
• Collaborate across the Impact team with the Managing Director, Impact & Advocacy and the Director, Impact Investments to keep school partnership work aligned with ELP’s broader impact and advocacy strategy.

• Build school-level plans with clear goals, activities, milestones, and owners, developed alongside school leaders.
• Partner with the OUSD Data team and ELP’s Director, Impact Investments to define what success looks like at each school and build the measurement approach and feedback loops to guide decisions, surface problems early, and adjust strategy and tactics.

• Drive multiple work streams and outside partners toward the same milestones, keeping timelines, decisions, and accountabilities clear.
• Own a program budget of more than $4 million.
• With the Impact team, select and manage the…