Vice President, Equity and Diversity

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Establish network-wide expectations and criteria for identifying, naming, and addressing disparities, creating a clear and consistent standard applicable across all regions and functional areas.

• Integrate equity into core planning cycles, progress monitoring processes, and action step routines, ensuring that disaggregation is a fundamental aspect of how the network monitors and responds to student outcomes.

• Track network-wide trends and progress toward equity goals; identify patterns across regions and influence system-level responses, solutions, and learning opportunities.

• Assess proposed practices for disparate impact prior to scaling; develop the analytical infrastructure and feedback mechanisms that highlight equity risks early and consistently.

• Discover and amplify effective practices across regions, ensuring that successful strategies in one context serve as learning opportunities for the entire network.

• Collaborate with Regional Superintendents and Schools Team Leadership to design and implement a methodology for identifying regions that need deeper, structured support based on the severity and persistence of disparities in key metrics.

• Co-lead equity initiatives in the most underserved regions alongside Regional Superintendents and regional senior leadership, driving strategy, supporting key decisions, and evaluating progress with the urgency and rigor the situation necessitates.

• Analyze root causes and propose a clear, measurable, and time-bound action plan for addressing persistent discrepancies in outcomes.

• Partner with Equity Leads to enhance ongoing regional capacity, ensuring that equity efforts maintain depth and consistency throughout direct engagements.

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among Schools, Operations, Data, Talent, and other functions to promote a coherent, unified approach to equity throughout the network, preventing it from becoming siloed within a single team or area.

• Work alongside senior leaders across divisions on strategic planning, executive-level discussions, and network-wide alignment initiatives where equity is a central focus.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in equity, diversity, inclusion, organizational development, or related systems-level leadership roles, preferably within K-12 education or complex nonprofit settings.

• A proven history of designing and implementing equity-centered systems at scale, including policy frameworks, practice guidelines, and measurement approaches that foster organizational accountability.

• Demonstrated capability to counsel senior executives on sensitive, complex, and contentious issues; possesses strong judgment regarding when to advocate, when to collaborate, and when to maintain boundaries.

• Strong proficiency in data disaggregation and equity measurement, able to articulate what success entails and drive organizational accountability in relation to it.

• Extensive expertise in racial equity, diversity, and inclusion as they pertain to both adult workforce and student-facing practices.

• Proven success in navigating cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholder environments under high-trust, high-stakes conditions.

• Prior experience in K-12 settings is highly preferred (e.g., teacher, school leader, or a similar role with direct accountability to students and families).

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 holidays plus 18 additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4, and to 28 days for years 5 and beyond).

• 100% paid parental leave.

• Full premium coverage for employee medical/dental/vision plans, and 75% coverage for employee + family.

• Wellness benefits including fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program.

• Financial security benefits such as a 401K retirement plan with a 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.