Fast Facts

The Commit Partnership is seeking a Managing Director for District Strategy & Partnerships to lead their district engagement efforts, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy while fostering relationships across Dallas County's educational landscape.

Responsibilities: Oversee the execution of district partnership strategies, manage a team to foster high-performing district relationships, and ensure operational excellence in delivering educational support.

Skills: Proven leadership in education, strong relational and communication skills, and the ability to connect organizational goals with district needs.

Qualifications: 10+ years in education leadership with a focus on district strategy and partnership management, alongside a deep understanding of educational systems and practices.

Location: This position is based in Dallas, TX, with a typical office environment and occasional duties outside the office.

Compensation: $150000 - $182000 / Annually

Position Overview

The Commit Partnership seeks an experienced, strategic, and relationship-driven leader to serve as the Managing Director (MD) of District Strategy & Partnerships. This role leads Commit’s district-facing work, ensuring our supports are deeply responsive to each district’s unique context while maintaining coherence across the organization.

The MD is responsible for developing and executing the overarching strategy for how Commit stewards, supports, and strengthens district partnerships and for managing the team that operationalizes this vision with excellence and consistency. As a member of Commit’s Executive Team, the MD contributes to organization-wide strategy, alignment, and decision-making to ensure Commit’s work delivers lasting impact across Dallas County and beyond.

Core Purpose

To build and sustain a high-functioning system for differentiated district partnership that bridges organizational strategy with district needs. The MD ensures that support from across our core pillars of Instruction, Talent, and Leadership are effectively translated into each district’s specific context, driving stronger outcomes for students.

Salary Range: $150,000-$182,000 + a bonus of up to 20%

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership 

• Develop and implement the overarching strategy for Commit’s district partnership work, defining how the organization supports and holds accountability for district progress. 
• Create a coherent framework for differentiated support that honors district context while maintaining alignment with organizational priorities. 
• Collaborate with the Chief and other Managing Directors to ensure seamless integration across Commit’s core pillars of Instruction, Talent, and Leadership. 
• Serve on the executive team to contribute to cross-organizational strategy, alignment, and culture-building. 
• Establish and track success metrics for district partnership quality, impact, and satisfaction, embedding continuous improvement routines. 

2. Team Leadership & Management 

• Manage the team responsible for executing the district partnership vision, ensuring clarity, alignment, and strong performance across district portfolios. 
• Cultivate a collaborative, high-trust culture where team members are empowered to lead with autonomy and accountability. 
• Coach and develop team members to strengthen their capacity for systems-level strategy, adaptive leadership, and relationship management. 

3. District Relationship Stewardship 

• Serve as a senior relationship manager and thought partner to key district leaders, ensuring Commit’s support model is seen as both responsive and strategic. 
• Oversee structures that ensure Commit’s expertise across Instruction, Talent, and Leadership are effectively translated to meet district needs and priorities. 
• Create mechanisms for cross-district learning, helping the organization and team benefit from shared insights and successful practices. 

4. Operational Excellence 

• Lead the operationalization of the district partnership model, including clear routines, communication structures, and decision-making systems. 
• Partner with internal data and operations teams to monitor engagement, manage capacity, and assess district-level progress. 
• Ensure internal learning loops so that insights from districts inform organizational strategy and resource allocation. 

Key Competencies

• Systems Thinking: Connects organizational priorities with district realities to create coherence and leverage. 
• Adaptive Leadership: Navigates evolving district contexts and leads with flexibility and empathy. 
• Relational Excellence: Builds high-trust partnerships with district leaders and internal teams. 
• Organizational Management: Manages complex teams and initiatives with clarity, accountability, and strategic alignment. 
• Strategic Communication: Synthesizes complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives for multiple audiences. 

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in education leadership, district strategy, or partnership management. 
• Proven track record leading multi-level teams toward ambitious, measurable outcomes. 
• Deep understanding of district systems, instructional improvement, and strategic partnership design. 
• Strong ability to influence across functions and organizations to drive systems-level change. 

What This Role Offers 

• The opportunity to shape Commit’s district partnership vision and systems of support across Dallas County. 
• A key leadership position influencing programmatic strategy. 
• The chance to collaborate directly with superintendents, cabinets, and senior executives to accelerate student outcomes. 
• A dynamic environment that values clarity, innovation, and impact in pursuit of equitable educational opportunity for all students. 

Language Skills

• Ability to understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate.
• Ability to communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Ability to describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to read and write in Standard English.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
• Ability to interact with persons of various social, cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds.
• Ability to listen perceptively and convey awareness.
• Ability to interact diplomatically with the public in a continuous public contact setting.
• Ability to work as part of a team and in a team environment.
• Ability to maintain level-headedness in the face of resistance and contrary opinions.

Work Environment

The Managing Director generally works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions.

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our collective actions, Dallas County—which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation—can become an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared fairly. That’s why our True North Goal is that by 2040, at least half of all Dallas County residents ages 25–34, irrespective of race, will have the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand, well-paying jobs—maximizing the cumulative impact from early education through college, career, and military readiness to strong postsecondary completion. Our team aligns community stakeholders around this shared roadmap for the future, using data to surface strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding. Together, we work to address the systemic root causes that hinder progress and strengthen our community’s capacity to serve every student effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, the Commit Partnership has grown into the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, uniting more than 70 backbone team members and over 200 partners across Dallas County and Texas—all working together to address the systemic education challenges facing our region and state. Our team brings community stakeholders together around a shared roadmap for the future, using data and practitioner insights to inform effective policy solutions that accelerate progress toward our goals and strengthen our collective capacity to serve every student well.

Together, we advocate for an excellent public education that ensures all students—regardless of race, place, or socioeconomic status—can shape their own futures, earn a living wage, and share in the prosperity of the world’s eighth-largest economy. We pursue this mission through several key initiatives, including Early Matters Dallas, Dallas County Promise, the Texas Urban Council, and the Texas Impact Network.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.