Chief Operating Officer

Leadership Opportunity

Founded in 2006, Stand for Children (“Stand”) is an educationadvocacy group and racial justice non-profit organization. Stand’seight state affiliates (AZ, CO, IL, IN, LA, OR, TN, and WA),National Programs (Center for High School Success, Center for EarlyLiteracy Success, Teach Kindness, and Home Visit Partnership), andstrategically aligned national campaigns help children at thebottom of the economic ladder rise up through effective dropoutprevention strategies, expanded career technical education, andimproved college preparation and post-secondary guidance,increasing access to quality early childhood education, improvingliteracy instruction and interventions, increasing funding equityand adequacy, improving school quality in communities with aconcentration of chronically low performing schools, andinitiatives to improve the criminal justice system.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Executive Officer (“EO”), Jonah Edelman, theChief Operating Officer (“COO”) will be a key member of hisleadership team. Working in partnership with the EO, otherexecutive team members, and the board of directors, the COO willhave the pivotal, hands-on leadership, management, and executionrole at the intersection of national, state, and local efforts toincrease education equity and racial justice. They will beresponsible for assuring a high level of effectiveness andefficiency of a high-performing, complex organization’s day-to-dayoperations, whose talented teams achieve sizeable impact annuallyfor children and families across the country.

Candidates with diverse professional experiences will beconsidered, although ideal candidates will have demonstratedexperience and success in the following areas:

Senior Finance and OperationalExperience: 15 years ofexecutive-level leadership providing financial and administrativeleadership in a high performing organization. Demonstrated successengaging hands-on to resolve day-to-day business challenges.

Excellence in Organizational & ChangeLeadership: demonstrated ability to efficientlyoperationalize processes and lead organizational change, with akeen sense for achieving sustainable change at scale, especially ina fast-paced and changing environment.

Team Management: a trackrecord of developing and managing diverse, high performing,geographically distributed teams.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, andInclusion: commitment to, track recordof, and measurable impact in the area of diversity, equity, andinclusion.

AnalyticalAcumen: evidenced analyticalskills and technical capability, including expertise withenterprise-wide systems.

Strong Credentials: strong financial acumenalong with academic credentials required, including a preferencefor an M.B.A. or a related graduate degree.

To learn more, express interest or to nominate apotential candidate for the Stand for Children COO position, pleaseemail StandforChildrenCOO@spencerstuart.com

Stand for Children and Stand for Children Leadership Centerprovide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all personsregardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status,physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex,sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or maritalstatus. Stand for Children is committed to a diverse and culturallyinclusive workplace in which differences broaden awareness, enrichdaily experiences, and contribute to collective strength. Stand forChildren predominantly partners with low-income communities ofcolor. Therefore, though race and other legally protectedcharacteristics are never used to make final hiring decisions,Stand for Children places a particular focus on recruiting staffmembers who share the backgrounds of the communities served.