Senior Director, Quality Coaching – Technology Innovation and Impact

Full-time | Washington, DC | Reports to the Senior Vice President, Quality Coaching | Travel: 15–20% Lead how technology can strengthen human-connected coaching Strada Education Foundation's Quality Coaching team is working to expand access to quality education-to-career coaching. Its work is organized around three change drivers: Transition Coaching, strengthening guidance as learners move from high school into postsecondary education and employment; Postsecondary Education Quality Coaching, strengthening coaching within postsecondary institutions; and Statewide Quality Coaching Models, helping states expand access to quality coaching at scale. Strada's Principles for Quality Education-to-Career Guidance emphasize outcomes, student agency, universal access, relationships, and the use of data and evidence. New technologies like AI offer cross-cutting capabilities that can strengthen these principles by expanding access and personalization, improving the use of labor market and outcomes information, and augmenting – rather than replacing – the human relationships central to quality coaching. We are looking for a Senior Director who will lead Quality Coaching's Technology Innovation portfolio, building on Strada's existing research, investments, and partnerships to advance human-centered technology that augments human-connected coaching. The portfolio focuses on three key questions: (1) where and how technology can most effectively augment career coaching; (2) what quality stan