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The Wallace Foundation —an independent, national, New York-based philanthropy with $1.8 billion in assets—traces its origins back more than half a century to DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace, founders of The Reader’s Digest Association. Our work is grounded by our core values, which guide how we work together, and our mission and approach, which describes what we do. We aim to create a workplace where we all can thrive and contribute in support of our mission. OUR CORE VALUES We seek to improve complex social systems in ways that are meaningful, measurable, and sustainable. We value behavior that demonstrates a commitment to Mutual Respect and Support, Diversity, Continuous Learning, Collaboration, Excellence, and Accountability . POSITION SUMMARY The Research Fellow is a new role for Wallace, designed as a one-year, half-time position (20 hours/week). If mutually desirable, the fellowship may be extended for an additional year. This opportunity is particularly...

The Aspen Institute  is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. Since its founding in 1949, the Institute has been driving change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the most critical challenges facing communities in the United States and around the world. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the Institute has a campus in Aspen, Colorado, and an international network of partners. The Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program explores significant challenges with diverse thinkers and doers to make a more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable society for all. We address critical energy, environmental, and climate change issues through non-partisan, non-ideological convening, with the specific intent of bringing together diverse stakeholders to improve the process and progress of policy-level dialogue. This enables EEP to sit at a critical intersection in the conversation and bring together diverse groups of...

ABOUT THE ROLE The Operations Assistant reports to the Director of Operations. The Operations Assistant is responsible for the smooth and effective functioning of day-to-day program and school administration that does not relate directly to instruction. This position will take on a variety of operational responsibilities including managing or supporting the school’s Main Office, parent communication, facilities maintenance, food services, materials procurement, and compliance.    Responsibilities Greet and direct visitors in a professional and courteous manner. Ensure that visitors entering the building possess appropriate identification and/or provide visitors with visitor badges. Maintain sign-in/out sheet for visitors entering/exiting the building. Support meal service delivery and be the primary point of contact for food service vendor. Perform data entry such as Meal Counts and assist with attendance reporting Assist with answering the telephone...

ABOUT THE ROLE The Primary School model is dependent on having a rich and integrated view of a child, built on data about a child’s academic, health, and socio-emotional well-being. The Data Fellow will play a critical role in ensuring we have an accurate robust set of data to inform our program design and evaluation, by collecting a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative data.  This role requires both a strong attention to detail and the ability to work with a wide variety of people, including students, families, and staff members. The fellow is scoped for a school-year opportunity with the potential to expand to a permanent position in the future. RESPONSIBILITIES Deliver a variety of assessments, screeners, and evaluations to students including oral, written, tech-based Collect qualitative data through interviews and focus groups Perform observations of various programs (e.g., classrooms) to record activities Train other staff in how to...

Effective communication is a key part of bringing about social change and helping the public to better understand society’s greatest social problems. Strategic framing can help us all see the solutions to those problems and build the collective will to support them. That’s what we do at the FrameWorks Institute — a nonprofit, progressive think tank that designs, conducts, interprets and translates communications research to advance social justice. We are seeking a Researcher or Research Analyst to join our team. The successful candidate will be a part of FrameWorks’ research team and our work to investigate how to effectively reframe social issues, such as health equity, economic justice, and children and youth. This is an outstanding opportunity for an early-career professional with an interest in social science research and a commitment to equity and social change. The Research Analyst or Researcher will support the collection, analysis, and synthesis of multiple streams of...

System Partner, Anti-Racist Innovation Location: Flexible within the United States Position is available: Immediately WHO WE ARE Every student deserves opportunities in life, and every educator committed to providing those opportunities deserves support. Those beliefs drive us to work alongside schools to support great teaching so that we can work towards guaranteeing that all students are receiving high quality instruction. We partner with over 900 schools - both district and charter - in underserved communities around the country, thus impacting more than 330,000 students. Third-party evaluations confirm that when schools have the right basic conditions in place and partner with ANet, they achieve 6-8 months of additional learning over a two-year period compared to schools not partnering with ANet. At ANet we are committed to living out our core values , both across our organization and with our partner schools. We acknowledge that systemic...

OVERVIEW OF THE POSITION SCORE’s Administrative Coordinator will ensure the smooth functioning of SCORE physical and virtual offices in support of the organization’s priorities to improve student achievement in Tennessee. Reporting directly to the Director of Operations, the Administrative Coordinator will be responsible for managing or supporting day-to-day internal business operations, including Office Management, IT, HR, and Events functions. In addition, this position provides critical administrative support across the entire SCORE team as needed, including direct support to SCORE’s Executive Assistant and Leadership Team.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES   Office Management & Support Answer, screen, and forward incoming calls as the point person to manage the main office phone Welcome guests and visitors when they arrive at SCORE offices as the point person to lead the office experience Monitor office supply levels, field supply requests, and order supplies...

Account Manager Location: Flexible within the United States ; up to 40% trave l required Position is available: Immediately WHO WE ARE Every student deserves opportunities in life, and every educator committed to providing those opportunities deserves support. Those beliefs drive us to work alongside schools to support great teaching so that we can work towards guaranteeing that all students are receiving high quality instruction. We partner with over 900 schools - both district and charter - in underserved communities around the country, thus impacting more than 330,000 students. Third-party evaluations confirm that when schools have the right basic conditions in place and partner with ANet, they achieve 6-8 months of additional learning over a two-year period compared to schools not partnering with ANet. At ANet we are committed to living out our core values , both across our organization and with our partner schools. We acknowledge...