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Chief Learning Officer

Seattle, Washington, United States

At Bezos Academy, we believe all children deserve the great start that excellent early education provides, including in under-resourced communities. Our mission is to nurture the potential in every child to become a creative leader, original thinker, and lifelong learner by inventing the solutions needed to scale early childhood education. We are a unique organization that operates a multi-state network of tuition-free, Montessori-inspired preschools in under-resourced communities while also investing in creating tools, products, technology, and other solutions designed to reach children well beyond the walls of our schools. We aspire to achieve a profound, large-scale impact on children ages zero to five.

About this Role

We seek an innovative educational leader with the drive to break barriers, question the status quo, and support both the school and the product/scalable solutions arms of our organization to provide early childhood educational experiences that leave measurable lifelong impacts on children. As the Chief Learning Officer at Bezos Academy, you will lead an enterprise-wide, multi-disciplinary team which includes curriculum, instructional excellence, special education, continuous improvement, and impact evaluation, all focused on child learning outcomes. Reporting directly to the President, you will serve as a key member of the senior executive team.

In this position, you will ensure every Bezos Academy preschool delivers on our Montessori-inspired curriculum for all learners, including multi-lingual learners and children with special needs. You will champion a culture of continuous improvement, using child outcomes data to validate our curriculum, instructional practices, and approach to child support and interventions. Alongside top school leadership, you hold ultimate accountability for ensuring all graduates of Bezos Academy preschools are ready for kindergarten and positioned to thrive as lifelong learners.

Beyond our schools, you will serve as an educational expert and advisor, ensuring that products and solutions we deliver are developmentally appropriate, informed by child development research and best practices in early childhood education. You will work with product and technology teams to integrate cutting-edge learning science into tools and solutions under development. Above all, you will work to ensure our solutions and products effectively address the biggest challenges and opportunities in early childhood education.

Throughout your career, you have led, innovated, and delivered impressive results in a variety of sectors and situations, demonstrating your versatility and adaptability. You are an experienced leader of teams, with proven experience leading teams through change. You thrive in a start-up environment and can own both the strategic and tactical components needed to deliver results for children. You easily build relationships with all stakeholders. You readily use data to make timely decisions to optimize outcomes for children and validate your decisions. Above all, you are inspired by our mission to expand access and invent the solutions needed to provide quality early education for all children.

LOCATION

  • Seattle, WA
  • Relocation support is available for those willing to relocate to Seattle, WA

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

  • This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, exempt (salaried) position.
  • The full salary range for this position in Seattle, Washington is $271,000 - $462,000 per year. Executive-level ranges are wide to provide strong performers the opportunity to earn more over multiple years, reflective of results. Starting salary for this position will vary with prior experience and qualifications but is estimated at $271,000 – $366,000.
  • This role includes 15 paid days of vacation, 4 days of paid personal time off, 7 paid days of sick (care) time, 9 paid holidays, 5 paid days off for an organization-wide winter break, and additional time off if required by applicable law. Benefits for this role include medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, a 401(k) plan with a 4% employer contribution match, paid parental leave, an employer-matched flexible spending account for dependent care, and more. Please see here for details.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Fifteen or more years of relevant experience, including at least ten years of managing interdisciplinary teams
  • Track record of hiring, managing, and developing diverse, geographically-distributed, high performing teams to deliver meaningful and measurable outcomes for children
  • Proven ability to use data to drive significant improvements and implement effective solutions and programs that benefit children
  • Expertise in child development, curriculum, and evidence-based instructional best practices that support all learners, including multi-language learners and children with special needs  
  • Exceptional analytical skills, including the ability to identify and solve ambiguous and complex problems, prioritizing actions that matter
  • Fluency in an array of tools and methods for assessing and analyzing child learning, growth, and development
  • Proven ability to build effective and trusting relationships across lines of difference
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Higher degree in a relevant field (e.g., curriculum, instruction, child development)
  • Significant subject-matter expertise in early childhood curricula, including familiarity with multiple pedagogies (e.g., Montessori, Reggio Emilia, etc.) and experience mapping curricula to early learning standards
  • Demonstrated ability to operationalize cross-organizational strategy from inception to actualization (e.g., problem-identification, aligned solution development, communication, constituent investment, planning, implementation, impact measurement, learning, and improvement)
  • Experience advising on educational products, media, and/or technology to ensure developmental appropriateness and alignment with learning objectives and developmental milestones
  • Comfort and confidence in the core concepts of research science and statistical methods
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams from diverse backgrounds effectively, including through ambiguity and change

 

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Bezos Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are in need of an accommodation to participate in the application process, please reach out to talent@bezosacademy.org. We will work with you to ensure you have a fair opportunity to apply for our open positions.

 

 

If you are a current Bezos Academy employee, please use the internal job board to apply.

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