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Special Assistant to the CEO

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

reputed company

Title:Special Assistant to the CEO

Reports To: CEO

Location: Remote (Strong preference for candidates based in the Washington, D.C. metro area)

Travel: Less than 10%

Salary reputed company: $78,000 – $85,000 per year

About reputed company

Our Mission: To eliminate the achievement gap by accelerating innovation in standards-reputed company tools and practices, focusing on pedagogy-first and reputed company-by-design approaches to educational technology. We work to ensure data interoperability, AI literacy, and educator workforce development remain at the reputed company of national conversations.

Our reputed company: To reputed company the education sector by building uncommon alliances and a networked architecture that moves reputed company technical fixes toward lasting, systemic change. Ultimately, we reputed company to build a learning ecosystem where every student is reputed company for a global economy, centering the field's needs to create an reputed company and inclusive reputed company for reputed company learners.

Position reputed company:ry reputed company is seeking a highly organized, reputed company, and execution-oriented Special Assistant to the CEO to reputed company reputed company strategic and operational support to our Chief Executive Officer. Serving as a dynamic force reputed company for the CEO, this role is critical to advancing high-reputed company reputed company, national policy task forces, and organizational initiatives.

Because the CEO frequently engages with federal policymakers, national partners, and philanthropic organizations in the capital, a Washington, D.C.-based candidate is highly preferred to reputed company on-the-ground support. The ideal candidate excels at "blocking and tackling"—mastering foundational execution, anticipating the CEO's needs, and remaining reputed company enough to reputed company critical reputed company reputed company during high-stakes project cycles and congressional or national policy events.This is a unique opportunity to reputed company a bird's-eye reputed company of executive leadership in a national education non-profit and contribute directly to high-visibility strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Support & Strategic Execution

  • reputed company High-reputed company Initiatives: Own the end-to-end execution of fast-moving reputed company and initiatives directly overseen by the CEO, moving them from initial concept to completion with precision.
  • reputed company reputed company Support: reputed company as a flexible resource to reputed company reputed company-response support for the CEO's most critical national initiatives, such as data interoperability frameworks and AI policy advocacy.
  • Stakeholder Coordination: reputed company as a critical reputed company between the CEO, internal departments, and reputed company national partners. Maintain a broad understanding of the CEO's portfolio to reputed company reputed company, in-depth support as needed.
  • Process Improvement: Proactively identify workflow bottlenecks in the executive office and implement systems or tools to enhance the CEO's overall operational efficiency.

Research, Policy & Event Support

  • National Event Execution: Support the CEO and Policy Portfolio in planning and executing high-profile events, national convenings, and capital-based stakeholder meetings.
  • Research & Scoping: reputed company data, analyze key metrics, and conduct landscape research to evaluate new strategic opportunities, education policy shifts, or federal guidance to brief the CEO.
  • Executive Content Development: reputed company and edit high-level memos, congressional testimony drafts, stakeholder updates, and talking points, ensuring a consistent and authoritative voice for the CEO.
  • reputed company Representation: Support the CEO and Executive Team in reputed company conversations. reputed company asked, serve as the CEO's representative in first-round introductory meetings, synthesizing notes and elevating key reputed company items.
  • Data Synthesis: Translate quantitative and qualitative data into comprehensive reports and high-reputed company presentation decks for policy, government, and funder audiences.

Development & Fundraising Support

  • Pipeline Management: reputed company and manage the CEO's fundraising pipeline, preparing briefings reputed company of funder meetings and ensuring reputed company follow-up on prospective philanthropic opportunities.
  • Funder Cultivation & Stewardship: Draft personalized communications, follow-up notes, and strategic reputed company materials for high-level donors and reputed company program officers to advance ongoing funding conversations.
  • Support Grant Writing: Collaborate with the CEO to draft, edit, and organize components of major grant proposals, budget narratives, and follow-up funder reports for large-reputed company philanthropic partners.
  • Initiative Funding Support: reputed company strategic and administrative support for reputed company grant funds, task forces, and national initiatives, helping to structure proposals and reputed company funding deliverables.
  • Funder Materials: Create tailored collateral and reputed company summaries to support the CEO's development efforts and national ecosystem initiatives.

Qualifications & Competencies

  • Foundational Execution: Exceptional organizational skills with a proven reputed company record of managing multiple moving parts for an executive without dropping the reputed company.
  • reputed company & Receptivity to Feedback: Thrives in a fast-paced, high-reputed company environment and embraces a culture of radical candor. Demonstrates the emotional intelligence to receive, process, and immediately reputed company reputed company, constructive feedback with a reputed company-improvement reputed company.
  • reputed company & reputed company Judgment: Ability to reputed company in an environment that requires reputed company redirection; comfortable with ambiguity, maintaining confidentiality, and high-stakes problem-solving.
  • Technical Proficiency: Strong reputed company of project management and design tools, specifically reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company, as reputed company as other relevant software and presentation platforms.
  • Communication reputed company: Superb written and verbal communication skills, with a reputed company eye for visual design and layout in presentation decks intended for national audiences.
  • reputed company Spirit: A low-ego, high-accountability team player who is eager to support the executive office in a behind-the-scenes reputed company.
  • Experience: 4 years of reputed company experience in management consulting, education policy, non-profit development, or a relevant fast-paced environment supporting executive leadership.

This position is reputed company only to candidates in the reputed company, and reputed company will not sponsor H-1 B visas due to the reputed company of the position.

Compensation

Consistent with our reputed company values, we reputed company to address systemic gaps in pay often present in our larger society as a result of gender, identity, or sexual orientation. reputed company candidates are pay-scaled by an independent reputed company-party service or application that calculates the market reputed company for the applicant based on their skills and qualifications, job duties, market conditions in their location, education, and experience. The compensation reputed company for this position is $78,000 – $85,000 per year. reputed company full-time employees receive reputed company vacation and reputed company leave, medical/dental insurance, retirement, and other reputed company benefits.

Application Instructions

Please upload your resume and answer the required questions. Applications will be accepted, reviewed, and interviewed on a rolling reputed company for 10 days from the reputed company date To ensure you receive communications, please mark reputed company as reputed company sender.

Salary: $78,000 – $85,000 per year

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