50 Million by 2035: Building the Future of Education and Opportunity

Please note: This is not a current job posting or an application for one specific open role. It is an opportunity to express interest in possible future leadership opportunities, projects, and partnerships related to TNTP's education-to-career pathways work as organizational needs evolve.

At TNTP, our education-to-career work focuses on bridging the gap between education and career so more young people graduate with both strong academic foundations and real pathways to opportunity. We work across K-12, postsecondary, workforce, and employer ecosystems to help systems create coherent experiences that connect learning to real-world skills, postsecondary success, and access to meaningful work and long-term economic mobility.

Who We Are Looking For

• Designing and leading career-connected learning pathways, including CTE, P-TECH, early college, dual enrollment, or work-based learning models

• Building employer, industry, and workforce partnerships that create clearer pathways from school to postsecondary education, training, and careers

• Improving student transitions to postsecondary education, credential attainment, workforce training, and career success

• Leading K-12, district, regional, or state strategies that align academic planning, pathway design, and student outcomes with labor market opportunity

• Advancing policy, systems change, or cross-sector initiatives that strengthen education-to-career pathways at scale

• Using innovation, data, and emerging tools, including AI where relevant, to expand pathway access, quality, and impact

Leadership-Level Competencies for Education-to-Career Pathways Work May Include

• Sets a clear vision for education-to-career pathways and turns that vision into actionable strategies across K-12, postsecondary, and workforce systems

• Builds trusted partnerships with district and state leaders, postsecondary institutions, employers, workforce organizations, and internal teams to strengthen pathway design and implementation

• Leads complex cross-sector work through ambiguity and change while maintaining a strong focus on equity, student outcomes, and long-term opportunity

• Uses data, labor market insight, and stakeholder feedback to improve pathway quality, student transitions, and postsecondary and career outcomes

• Develops teams and partners to execute high-impact pathway work through coaching, collaboration, strong project leadership, and shared accountability

• Drives implementation from strategy to execution, ensuring education-to-career initiatives are scalable, practical, and responsive to partner and student needs

Travel

This work may require up to approximately 40 percent travel, which is about 8 to 10 days per month depending on project needs.

TNTP is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities and other access needs. If an accommodation is needed to support participation in future opportunities or any part of the process, we encourage candidates to let us know.

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TNTP is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to maintaining a non-discriminatory work environment. TNTP does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, arrest record, conviction record, or any other personal characteristic protected by applicable law. This policy covers all programs, services, policies, and procedures of TNTP, including recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, and administering all personnel actions, such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs or terminations.

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.