Establish and use project management systems to integrate and track process across multiple teams, projects, and external grantees and contractors.
Establish and optimize department workflows that align with strategic goals while maximizing organizational impact and efficiency.
Take initiative to develop and lead sophisticated operational processes across a range of complex R&D programs.
Support program leaders in crafting RFPs, negotiating terms, and ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.
Create and facilitate collaborative design processes.
Develop strategy and technical implementation to accelerate the R&D processes.
Automate repetitive tasks, eliminate bottlenecks, and uphold rigorous ethics and privacy standards to drive innovation and efficiency.
Support existing R&D programs with systems of shared and personalized infrastructure needs.
Write reports documenting and synthesizing a wide range of perspectives across the education R&D ecosystem.
Develop and maintain tracking, tagging, and reporting systems for data that integrates across diverse sources and platforms such as grants/contracts, finance, research, and adoption of funded developments.
Monitor progress against goals (like OKRs) and provide actionable insights and regular reporting to senior leadership.
Collect, clean, tag, validate, and merge datasets from multiple sources to use for impact tracking and actionable insights.

Mission-Driven: A deep belief in the transformative power of advanced inclusive R&D to address and disrupt educational inequity.
Adaptable and Solution-Focused: Thrives in the iterative nature of R&D and can find clarity and connection amidst ambiguity, and find ways to understand and solve problems.
Entrepreneurial Spirit: Demonstrates a proactive drive to achieve ambitious goals in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Exceptional Organizational Skills: Exhibits meticulous attention to detail and effective skills in project management, planning and execution.
Research and Data Analytic Skills: Has demonstrated experience building and using evidence-based systems with quantitative and actionable metrics for problem solving and decision making.
Strong operational skills, including handling contracts, optimizing processes, and executing efficiently.
Proven ability to balance strategic thinking and thought partnership in research operations, focusing on improving processes rather than conducting research.
Expertise in advanced research methodologies and frameworks.
Expertise in product development and data visualization.
Familiarity with data security best practices for high-risk research environments.
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and communicate with a variety of roles with different goals.
Ability to manage multiple initiatives with various timelines and competing prioritizations.

competitive compensation package including base salary and comprehensive benefits
Remote work options

Director of Research and Development Operations

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