Senior Manager of Education Solutions (District Sales & Onboarding)

Our Mission: Project Invent empowers youth with future-ready mindsets to succeed individually and impact globally, through invention.

Our Vision: A generation of fearless, compassionate problem solvers.

Description: Project Invent is a national nonprofit empowering middle and high school students across the country to invent technologies for social impact. We train educators in design thinking, engineering, and entrepreneurship to lead students through identifying real problems in their communities and inventing impactful solutions. At the end of the year, students pitch their inventions to tech and business leaders at our Demo Day events. Since 2018, we've grown from one to 70 schools across the country, with 70% of our Fellows teaching in low-income serving schools.

As our Senior Manager of Education Solutions, you will be responsible for working with decision-makers at the school and district levels to sign, renew, and expand program contracts. This is a sales-focused position that will pursue paid opportunities with school and district administrations, superintendents, and senior-level managers at Out of School Time (OST) providers.

Duties include, but are not limited to…

• Ownership of org-wide earned revenue goals, measured in dollar figures and community impact.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key school and district decision-makers.
• Develop and maintain opportunity pipelines to meet sales targets.
• Coordinate with the Project Invent team to ensure seamless execution of contracts.
• Execute teacher recruitment plans for partners to generate demand for services and enroll educators in training.
• Provide outstanding communication to partners, including progress updates, responding to needs, and collecting feedback on services and impact.
• Meet regularly with school and district leaders to build an understanding of and investment in our work.
• Review and present qualitative and quantitative data to school and district partners to evaluate the impact of the Project Invent on educators.
• Collect and share qualitative and quantitative data from partners to the Project Invent team to improve processes and partner support.
• Collaborate with the Project Invent team to evaluate partner progress and propose scopes of work that best meet partner needs, drive impact, and generate earned revenue through contract renewal.
• Manage the contract renewal process from the proposal of a scope of work through contract closing.
• Maintain a renewal pipeline aligned to revenue targets and progress toward goals.
• Leveraging relationships to expand to new schools and districts within the communities we serve.

What we're looking for…

• Experience working with district or CMO-level leadership
• Comfort creating and delivering presentations to new and existing partners
• Strong public speaking, writing, and communication skills
• Excellent listening and problem-solving skills
• Ability to build and deliver compelling presentations
• Comfort working independently and in a start-up environment
• Ability to make data-driven decisions
• Passion for solving challenging problems
• Outstanding relationship-building skills
• Structured and organized thinking, driven to develop and refine scalable systems
• Committed to empowering students to be creative, resilient, empathetic problem solvers.
• Passionate about innovative education.
• A go-getter, ideas person, and executor.
• Excited about designing meaningful learning experiences for students.
• Experience with planning large-scale events, both in-person and virtual.
• Ability to develop event success metrics and use data to improve events.
• Experience with CRM software (i.e. Salesforce, Hubspot, etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with project management tools (i.e. Asana, Notion, Airtable etc.) is a plus.
• Please note that travel is required

Roles & Responsibilities…

• (50%) Creation, renewal, and expansion of contracts: The Senior Manager works to scale our work by deepening and expanding relationships in school districts and communities.
• (40%): Partner support and engagement: The Senior Manager is the point of contact for school and district decision-makers as their educators learn our program and implement it in their communities.
• (10%) Marketing & Publicity: Work directly with the Executive Director to develop marketing strategies for both internal and external program events.

About working with us: Project Invent is committed to working and thriving in a multicultural environment and to maintaining an inclusive working environment where all employees and their differences are valued and respected. Project Invent is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in any aspect of employment, including in hiring, salary, promotion, discipline, termination, and benefits, on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation, family responsibility, disability, or any other criteria prohibited by federal, state, or local law.

We are a remote-first team and are happy to accept candidates from anywhere in the U.S. Team members typically work 9AM-5PM hours in their respective time zones with occasional evening and weekend commitments. This is a full-time, salaried position for a candidate excited about being a key contributor to a fast-growing organization. This grant-based position is expected to begin on October 1st, 2025, and end on September 30th, 2026. This is an at-will position.

Anticipated salary range of $90,000-$100,000; actual salary dependent on candidate experience level and location. Employee will be eligible for a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, vision, and dental insurance.

Project Invent will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, the New York City Fair Chance Act, and other applicable state or local laws.

Helpful Links: Want to get a better feel of what we do and why we do it? Check out these links:

• The Invention Journey: Freeport High School (video)
• Journey to Demo Day (video)
• Fellow Experience (video)
• Theory of Change (article)
• 2023-2024 Annual Report (PDF)