Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TNTP is hiring a Chief Education to Career Officer to lead its Education to Career portfolio as a strategic priority and expand work beyond its historic K-12 footprint. The role sets enterprise strategy, builds and scales cross-sector career pathways, drives growth and sustainable partnerships, and leads external thought leadership and a high-performing team.

Responsibilities

• Set and articulate a clear, compelling vision for TNTP’s Education to Career portfolio that reflects the organization’s strategic shift into transformational work, new markets, and new sectors
• Define enterprise strategy for connected education-to-career pathways across K-12, postsecondary, workforce, employer, and industry systems
• Bring external insights, labor-market trends, AI-driven shifts, and partnership opportunities to shape organizational direction and long-term positioning
• Create new lines of work, incubate and test emerging service models, and scale what proves effective across markets and sectors
• Bring real AI fluency to TNTP’s Education to Career strategy and determine what young people and the systems serving them need to prepare for a changing economy
• Own measurable outcomes across TNTP’s education-to-career ecosystem, driving impact for young people and the partners supporting their pathways to meaningful work and long-term economic mobility
• Develop and execute a comprehensive growth, sales, and market-entry strategy for the E2C portfolio, including sectors beyond TNTP’s historic K-12 footprint
• Secure new business, meet revenue targets, diversify TNTP’s service offerings, and shape sustainable funding and partnership models
• Build and maintain relationships with clients, funders, employers, industry leaders, workforce partners, postsecondary institutions, and strategic partners
• Serve as a leading external voice on education-to-career pathways and economic mobility
• Amplify TNTP’s narrative through speaking, publications, and partnerships
• Translate TNTP’s work into compelling narratives that influence the field
• Serve as a builder and enterprise leader on TNTP’s Executive Team, helping shape the next phase of Education to Career work
• Lead and develop a high-performing leadership team
• Advance revenue-minded approaches to market entry, partnerships, funding models, and services that contribute to organizational sustainability
• Foster a culture of experimentation, disciplined learning, and continuous improvement so TNTP can test new lines of work and scale what proves effective

Skills

• 10+ years of senior leadership experience in workforce development, career pathways, or a related field
• Bachelor's degree required
• Proven experience building, launching, and scaling transformational education-to-career, workforce, employer-partnership, or cross-sector systems work
• Demonstrated success in business development, professional-services growth, partnership development, revenue generation, and sustainable funding models
• Deep understanding of connected education-to-career ecosystems and the ability to interpret labor-market signals, policy changes, employer needs, emerging trends, and technology shifts
• Experience creating new lines of work, testing emerging models, using data to assess outcomes, and scaling effective services or business lines
• Exceptional executive communication, narrative, and storytelling skills, with experience serving as a senior organizational spokesperson and influencing national or system-level decisions
• Established relationships across public, private, civic, philanthropic, employer, industry, postsecondary, and/or workforce-development sectors
• A strong record of building and leading high-performing teams, aligning varied stakeholders around shared outcomes, navigating ambiguity and competing interests, and making principled decisions with accountability and resilience
• Applicants for employment with TNTP must have valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S
• Advanced degree

Benefits

• Eligible for an annual incentive opportunity of up to 9%.
• Generous PTO.
• Comprehensive benefits.
• A range of plans and programs designed to support the physical, mental, and financial wellness of employees and their dependents.
• We're closed the last two weeks of December.
• Remote work arrangement.

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