District Success Lead, Central Region

EVERFI is a leading provider of digital education content, empowering organizations to drive direct impact in communities on important social issues from financial wellness and mental health to workplace culture. Since 2008, we've reached over 41 million learners worldwide and earned recognition from Fast Company, Fortune, and GSV for our innovation and impact.

About the Role

The District Success Lead is responsible for managing high-level relationships with school districts and department of education officials to strategically drive adoption of EVERFI's no-cost platform and digital resources within regional portfolios. This role works closely with the regional K-12 Implementation Specialists to support implementation of EVERFI's programs at the school level, and also collaborates with our Customer Success and Sales teams, which are tasked with securing funding so EVERFI is available at no cost to schools.

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage partnerships with school districts, Departments of Education (DOE), and Educational Agencies through various forms of outreach (cold calls, email campaigns, social media, conferences, referrals, etc.) to schedule meetings with decision makers, book teacher trainings, and promote district and state adoption of EVERFI.

• Complete quarterly outreach to school districts/DOE partners to provide data and progress updates and maintain & increase strength of relationships.

• Assist in the creation of district strategy and objectives and develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress.

• Pitch & create long-term implementation plans and best practices with district administrators, including illustrating how EVERFI aligns to state standards and to their curriculum plans.

• Monitor and analyze district customer's usage of the EVERFI programs to find avenues to create short and long-term growth.

• Log activity (meetings and interactions, course support level, strength of relationship, etc.) and progress summary notes in Salesforce and keep contact information of district administrators up to date.

• Develop and maintain current knowledge on trends within the K12 system, education technology, and EVERFI's platform and courses: understand standards alignment, challenges faced by educators, implementation best practices across the country, etc.

• Lead and support regional team on district memorandum of understanding (MOU) and data sharing/privacy agreement adoption, board approval, teacher training, communication, and implementation plans.

• Provide best practice and communication tools to K-12 team members to support implementation of EVERFI programs in school districts.

• Act as a liaison between K12 Operations and the district administrators to implement single-sign-on integration.

• Leverage district relationships to help plan student events in the region for K12 customers, including suggesting school districts that would be a good fit for hosting the event, and conducting outreach to district administrators to gauge interest and ask for support in securing schools for participation in the event.

• Support customer success and sales teams by serving as a liaison between K12 school districts and EVERFI's customers who provide the funding for the resources, including joining meetings with customers and prospects to speak to the need for this education and the positive impact on students, educators, and the greater community, and working with school districts and the greater K12 implementation team to ensure that the customers' programming is being utilized at scale across the sponsored schools.

• Attend, exhibit and present at national and regional conferences to provide support for district administrators interested in EVERFI's products.

• Draft, compile, and submit responses to district RFPs that are applicable to the implementation of EVERFI programs, in collaboration with the legal team.

• Other job duties as assigned

Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred or relevant experience in the education field.

• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with districts, Departments of Education and/or Education Agencies to deliver and activate services against defined goals.

• Demonstrated success meeting monthly and annual goals.

• Experience in the education industry, or related fields including but not limited to non-profits and technology start-ups.

• Ability to navigate complex situations and relationships with external partners.

• Ability to make recommendations to improve work processes and efficiencies internally.

• Work independently and self-driven to achieve goals.

• Quick learner, resourceful and ability to troubleshoot technology.

• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills.

• Strong presentation skills, including proficiency with presentation, communication, and collaboration tools such as PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Asana, WebEx, Zoom, Groove, Gong, etc.

• Experience using or other data management systems preferred.

• Ability and means to travel on a flexible schedule at least 20% of the time.