Chief of Staff & Strategy

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Reports to:

CEO

Location:

San Francisco Bay Area, CA (Preferred) and Seattle, WA

The Chief of Staff & Strategy is a senior leader responsible for ensuring Summit operates as a strategically aligned, high-performing organization. This role translates strategy into execution—aligning people, priorities, resources, data, and narrative across the network.

Working closely with the CEO and C-Team, the Chief of Staff drives enterprise-wide planning, performance management, and cross-functional integration. They ensure that strategy is not only defined, but executed with discipline, clarity, and accountability toward measurable outcomes.

This is a high-trust, high-impact role designed to multiply the CEO’s effectiveness, strengthen executive team performance, and connect work across functions—including data, development, and communications—into a coherent, results-driven system.

What if all students graduated high school with the knowledge, skills and habits they need to lead a fulfilled life? This is the question that guides our mission at Summit Public Schools .

To collectively prepare a diverse community of young people with the skills, knowledge, and habits to attain economic empowerment and success in a chosen concrete next step toward a fulfilled life. We operate 10 schools serving over 3,300 students in the Bay Area and Washington state. 100% of Summit graduates are college ready and Summit graduates complete college at double the national average.

We need exceptional, diverse, and mission-aligned teachers to join our team to help prepare our students for a fulfilled life. Join us!

Drive Enterprise Strategy & Execution

Lead strategic planning for Summit Public Schools on an annual and multi-year basis

Set the organization's annual priorities across teams and sites

Plan strategy to ensure priorities are served and lead to measurable outcomes

Relentlessly track progress against those outcomes with the Network Level Team

Work to identify and resolve misalignment across teams

Ensure that people, time, and resources are aligned to priorities

Lead Performance, Data & Accountability Systems

Create, build, initiate and run Summit Public School’s performance management system. Design and build tracking methods such as scorecards and dashboards to ensure accountability.

Ensure initiatives move from planning to execution with visible progress

Monitor and track data and then ensure that data is elevated data from compliance to decision-making

Flag risks early and drive course correction

Drive successful Executive Team performance and health, including through design and implementation of meeting and planning structures and processes and supporting Executive Team hiring, onboarding and offboarding.

Integrate and Lead Cross-Functional Priorities

Oversee key functional areas (Data, Development, Communications, Strategy, Innovation) to ensure alignment with organizational priorities. Manage these areas to excellent performance outcomes.

Assure that fundraising, communications, and data all reinforce the same key strategic directions for Summit Public Schools

Collaborate closely with the Executive Director of Marshall, Chief Academic Officer and the Chief People and Operations Officer to align academic and operational systems, including enrollment and student achievement

Establish and drive a unified organizational narrative internally and externally

Strengthen internal transparency and clarity across teams.

Multiply the CEO and Strengthen Executive Leadership

Serve as a strategic thought partner on tradeoffs, priorities, and resource allocation alongside the CEO for Summit Public Schools

Lead Board engagement strategy and integration with organizational priorities for all of the Board partnerships that Summit Public Schools holds

Deepen and strengthen C-Team alignment, effectiveness, and accountability

Support and Drive CEO communications, materials, and key relationships both internally and externally

Other Duties and…