The role is designed to help senior leaders solve the organization’s hardest, most ambiguous operating problems — and to build the organization’s own muscle for doing this work. At its core, this is a role about sharp thinking and sharper facilitation: the ability to walk into a room of busy, skeptical school and network leaders, drive them to the real root cause of a hard problem, and leave them aligned on what to do next. You’ll lead a team of Lean/PE and Project Management practitioners and own the PE strategy and pipeline — but your primary instruments are diagnosis, facilitation, and the ability to communicate root causes and solutions in a way that moves executive leadership to act.
Classic Lean/Six Sigma tools (Kaizen, DMAIC, Standard Work, Visual Daily Management, etc) are part of the toolkit, not the point of the job. We’re looking for someone who can flex and adapt those tools to fit a fast-moving, people-intensive, mission-driven school system — not someone applying an industrial playbook.
Who thrives in this role?
People who’ve spent their career getting a room full of skeptical, busy leaders to diagnose what’s actually broken and what to do about it — whether that muscle was built in Lean/Six Sigma, management consulting, strategy, internal operations, or leading transformation inside a school system, hospital, or other complex, mission-driven organization. You’re energized by ambiguous, human problems more than by cleanly executing a known methodology.