This is a temporary, full-time remote position anywhere in the contiguous United States, with national travel expected up to 25%. This position is supported by LIFT grant funds and is expected to continue through the duration of the grant period which is estimated to be 1-3 years. Continued employment is contingent upon the availability of funds.

What You’ll Do

The Associate Director of Leadership and Instructional Foundations Texas (LIFT) Program Compliance is a detail-oriented and strategic professional who will oversee the regulatory and operational integrity of work within the Texas Education Agency’s Leadership and Instructional Foundations for Texas grant program. As an approved technical assistance provider, Instruction Partners  helps Texas districts implement high-quality instructional materials. This role ensures that every facet of the partnership, from completing needs assessments to facilitating teacher training, is fully compliant with state grant requirements, reporting milestones, and educational standards. The Associate Director of LIFT Program Compliance builds, maintains, and monitors key projects that impact the success of the partnership delivery team, ensuring instructional leadership and improved learning outcomes for students.

Responsibilities:

LIFT Grant Oversight & Milestone Tracking

• Leads increasingly complex projects and ensures outcomes related to the end-to-end compliance lifecycle for the 3-year grant cycle including planning, implementation, and sustainability phases
• Adapts and integrates multiple frameworks to ensure all deliverables, such as needs assessments and instructional leadership coaching, aligned with specific district pathways
• Evaluates issues and anticipates challenges to ensure all assigned delivery team members provide required training content identified in district needs assessments
• Communicates clearly and adapts to the audience when managing all communications, registration, and compliance reporting for required training sessions

Texas Education Agency (TEA) & Learning Acceleration Support Opportunities (LASO) Reporting

• Assesses complex issues and weighs alternatives as the primary liaison for compliance-related data collection to ensure district partners meet reporting deadlines
• Applies knowledge to shape programs and processes by coordinating with finance and program teams to ensure all allowable costs are tracked and documented according to federal and state fiscal guidelines
• Navigates change with openness while ensuring all grant-funded activities are documented for accountability and sustained impact

Strategic Support for Partnership Delivery Leadership

• Supports district leadership in navigating application and reporting portals, providing guidance to strengthen team expertise
• Anticipates and prevents misunderstandings by monitoring state correspondence and policy shifts to pivot internal operations proactively
• Assesses complex issues and references diverse perspectives to provide risk assessments on new partnership opportunities and multi-state expansion
• Acts as a strategic advisor during the contract renewal process, translating complex grant requirements into clear operational guidelines for leadership
• Collaborates with engagement teams to develop contract completion and impact templates to ensure accountability and sustained impact

Quality Assurance with Professional Design Teams

• Applies knowledge to shape programs by collaborating with design teams to ensure all materials meet required instructional standards
• Integrates multiple frameworks by embedding compliance checkpoints, such as data privacy reminders and grant-reporting prompts, into instructional tools and templates
• Models continuous improvement by ensuring all professional learning materials meet research-based instructional strategies

Operational Enablement for Partnership Delivery

• Leads complex projects as the project manager for the working group, setting agendas and developing comprehensive project plans
• Develops operations routines and templates for district-specific communication regarding required deliverables and provides coaching to support team members in implementation
• Serves as the primary point of contact to resolve high-stakes field questions and navigate data sharing agreements
• Establishes formal systems to gather feedback regarding compliance tasks to refine processes and increase efficiency
• Conducts internal focus groups to identify systems issues and designs new tools or processes to address data collection and visualization needs

Candidate Qualifications and Traits:

• 7+ years of professional experience in program compliance, grant management, or educational operations, with a proven track record of managing complex regulatory frameworks
• Regulatory Systems Mastery: Extensive training and proven experience navigating complex state-level regulatory databases and enterprise project management architectures to optimize data integrity and operational transparency
• Strategic Operational Logic: Demonstrated ability to decode multi-layered regulatory frameworks and fiscal pathways, synthesizing them into clear, logical structures that bridge the gap between compliance and implementation
• Relational Diplomacy: Highly developed skills in exercising emotional intelligence and sophisticated negotiation techniques to manage competing priorities and build collaborative capital with district leaders
• Grant Management Expertise: Deep, specialized knowledge of state and federal grant guidelines, including the ability to provide accurate and reliable guidance on allowable costs and reporting milestones
• Systems Design and Analysis: Proven ability to analyze information to solve problems and design efficient operational routines that support team effectiveness and organizational goals