Part-time Senior Manager, Science

Remote within Texas

This position is based in a home office anywhere in Texas.

WHO WE ARE

TNTP is the nation's preeminent education nonprofit that brings research, policy, and consulting together to meet the needs and aspirations of young people, families, communities, and the nation. We are educators, researchers, and innovators working to ensure every young person has the chance to reach their full potential, every educator and leader is set up for success, and every community has the resources necessary to connect young people to paths of opportunity.   

We work at every level of the PK-12 system, side by side with educators, system leaders, and communities across 41 states and more than 4,000 systems nationwide to reach ambitious goals for student success. Our vision pushes beyond school walls, catalyzing cross-sector collaboration to create pathways for young people to achieve academic, economic, and social mobility.  

Learn more about us, what we do, and working here.  

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Part-time Senior Manager, you will support a portfolio of academic, talent, teacher and leader development, and/or community engagement projects. You will contribute to state and regional strategy and help ensure individual projects are aligned to broader organizational priorities and goals for students. For this role, we are seeking team members with strong experience in education research, learning science, HQIM implementation, and Science content development. Successful candidates will be able to translate research and curriculum into clear adult learning materials, manage complex deliverables, navigate client and stakeholder dynamics with credibility, and strengthen work through high-stakes feedback and revision cycles.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Identify, review, and synthesize current research on effective instructional strategies in Science.

  • Locating credible, up-to-date research related to Science instruction, learning, and implementation of HQIM.

  • Distinguishing between strong research, emerging evidence, and general best practices.

  • Connecting research findings to instructional priorities, HQIM, and educator-facing practices.

• Translate Science instructional research into clear, practical guidance for educators and adult learning materials.

  • Turning research findings into concrete guidance, examples, tools, and training content for a diverse group of stakeholders.

  • Explaining the ‘why’ behind instructional strategies in ways that build educator understanding and buy-in.

  • Revising materials based on feedback while preserving research alignment and instructional clarity.

• Manage implementation and influence strategy for a large, state-level agency, including but not limited to:

  • Contributing to team/project goals, engaging in innovation in alignment with goals.

  • Managing timelines, deliverables, internal checkpoints, and workstream coordination to ensure high-quality work is completed on time.

  • Tracking deliverable progress across content development, review, revision, approval, and implementation stages.

  • Identifying risks to timeline, quality, alignment, or stakeholder confidence early and escalate concerns with recommended next steps.

  • Maintaining strong systems for organizing work, tracking decisions, documenting feedback, and ensuring follow-through across team members.

  • Balancing speed, quality, and accuracy in a fast-moving environment with competing priorities and evolving client expectations.

  • Tracking progress towards contract goals and making strategic decisions regarding project management and support

  • Contributing to the creation of high-quality, data-driven reports or other deliverables demonstrating the effect of the team’s approaches towards contract goals

• Develop, revise, and quality review materials while engaged in high-stakes feedback cycles

  • Conducting quality reviews of instructional and adult learning materials for content accuracy, research alignment, HQIM alignment, coherence, clarity, and usability.

  • Identifying gaps, inaccuracies, unclear explanations, or weak alignment and revising materials to strengthen credibility and instructional quality.

  • Reviewing materials for clarity, accessibility, and usability for facilitators and participants across varied implementation contexts.

  • Interpreting and incorporating client and internal feedback in ways that strengthen the substance of the work while preserving research and curriculum alignment.

  • Documenting decisions, feedback, risks, and next steps to ensure shared understanding and follow-through across the team.

  • Interpreting stakeholder feedback thoughtfully, distinguishing between content concerns, alignment needs, preferences, and broader relationship dynamics, and respond with sound judgment.

• Build client capacity, cultivate client relationships, and build and maintain credibility through strong content knowledge, careful preparation, clear communication and consistent follow-through.

  • Developing tools and resources in real time to respond to client needs

  • Developing and cultivating client relationships that foster trust through authentic engagement and ensuring client satisfaction with our work

  • Understanding client priorities, hierarchy, decision-making structures, and stakeholder dynamics.

  • Preparing for and engage in client-facing interactions with awareness of context, sensitivities, and workstream implications.

  • Communicating clearly about content decisions, tradeoffs, risks, revisions, and next steps.

  • Interpreting stakeholder feedback thoughtfully, distinguishing between content concerns, alignment needs, preferences, and broader relationship dynamics.

  • Responding to feedback and stakeholder needs with professionalism, judgment, and timely follow-through.

WHAT YOU HAVE

Qualifications: 

• Strong experience in education research, learning science, curriculum implementation, and/or instructional materials, with the ability to translate research into practical guidance for educators.

• Content expertise in learning science and science.

• Strong understanding of HQIM to support the development, refinement, and quality review of instructional training materials, tools, and adult learning supports.

• Experience supporting content development within science with close attention to research, accuracy, coherence, and instructional relevance.

• Knowledge of content and instruction, with at least three years PK-12 teaching experience, preferably in high-need schools or with high-need populations and a proven track record of raising student achievement.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Competencies:

• Innovate and implement solutions to complex challenges. You have a history of engaging with high stakes challenges directly and successfully. Ambiguity doesn’t overwhelm you; just the opposite, you thrive on it. Your creative instincts will help you deal with vague situations and develop new approaches with limited guidance.

• Translate your expertise. We’re counting on your strong public presentation skills, ability to assess and adjust to the learning needs of your audience, and ability to communicate complex information to a variety of audiences, including teachers, school leaders, and district staff.  You can implement a vision for the sequence of learning that all stakeholders—district leaders, school leaders, teachers, etc—need to improve the experience of students.

• Know great teaching and learning when you see it. Whether you are watching how students engage during a lesson or looking at student performance data, you can identify whether students are grappling with the right content and diagnose what needs to happen to improve student learning outcomes immediately and in the long-term. You know high-quality instructional materials and can support partners in their implementation at the classroom and school level. (preferred)

• Influence leaders to act. You’ll regularly interact with, and be expected to influence, high- level clients at the district and school levels – motivating them to make both incremental changes and take bold leaps.

• Have a passion and understanding for education landscape and communities. You bring deep background knowledge in the current education landscape and a passion for embedding community engagement and involving communities in our work.

• Build relationships. You have the ability to connect and build relationships with diverse communities. Bilingual abilities are a plus; Spanish language preferred.

• Model cross-cultural agility.  Authentic self-reflection, self-awareness, and high emotional intelligence are central to who you are, and you utilize these skills to shape a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, that influences how you think about your work.  You have an adept cultural knowledge of yourself and use your understanding of yourself and others to build trusting relationships with direct reports, colleagues, and clients.

WHAT WE OFFER

TNTP offers a competitive hourly wage commensurate with experience in a similar position. The compensation range for this role is $38.02 - $57.04 per hour. TNTP offers a motivated team of dynamic colleagues, a collegial atmosphere that values professional development and valuable feedback, and the chance to impact the direction of a growing, mission-driven company that is committed to the success of our nation’s children. 

We also ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation for the interview process. Email talent@tntp.org to request accommodation.

#LI-REMOTE

Position Type:

Seasonal (Fixed Term) (Seasonal)

TNTP is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to maintaining a non-discriminatory work environment. TNTP does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, arrest record, conviction record, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy covers all programs, services, policies, and procedures of TNTP, including recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, and administering all personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs or terminations.  

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