Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager, Education

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative • Full-time • Redwood City, California, United States • 2w ago

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education to addressing the needs of our local communities. Our mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone.

THE TEAM At CZI, we pair technology with grantmaking to equip educators, families, and students with tools that integrate high-quality research, practices, and content to unlock the full potential of every student, no matter who they are or where they live. From program conception to software feature design, we center our work on student and educator voices to help educators address the day-to-day challenges in their classrooms.

Since 2015, our grant investments have helped catalyze new tools, practices, and measures designed to foster whole-child outcomes. We leverage technology to provide research-based practices in products that help teachers connect with students and tailor learning experiences to individual student needs.

At our core, we are builders and our unique builder philanthropy approach is what sets us apart from other education funders. Take a closer look at the highlights and significant milestones of CZI’s first eight years of education work.

Educators are already using AI-based tools in various ways—including generating lesson plans, creating classroom materials such as tests and assignments, and helping differentiate instruction for students. At CZI, we are inspired and excited about the possibilities and promise of AI to accelerate the availability of research-backed practices at scale. We are actively and thoughtfully exploring how to incorporate AI into products in close partnership with researchers, experts, and educators.

THE OPPORTUNITY Advances in AI have made these tools increasingly present in schools, but lacking in consistent quality and integration into school and district technology systems. This role provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of research, practice, technology, and implementation to both raise the floor of the edtech industry and raise the ceiling of what edtech can do.

The Strategic Partnerships role is to build deep collaboration between CZI Education and outside organizations in order to advance our Education strategy and objectives. This role will develop and maintain relevant market maps of the education ecosystem, understand the political and policy landscape, operationalize our modes and forms of partnerships, and initiate and drive partnership agreements. This person will work closely with internal CZI Education team members (including Product & Learning Science teams) to explore and manage potential partnerships. They will also work across CZI’s community of external stakeholders (including edtech developers, grantees, and funders) to amplify CZI’s vision, initiatives, and projects.

Given the scope of the work planned, this person needs experience with business development, strategy, and communications, including thinking through financial, legal, operational, and other practical issues to bring plans to life. This person will need experience and interest in working with both internal and external partners in flexible, collaborative, and empathetic ways. This is a critical, cross-cutting, and interdisciplinary role to help ensure the successful development of our products (including Knowledge Graph and Evaluations) and the adoption and use of our tools towards the success of our overall AI initiative. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of educational technology, driving products and partnerships that are grounded in learning sciences to improve student outcomes.

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