Deputy Director, Assessment Initiative

Tags: Environment
  • Added Date: Thursday, 02 October 2025
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The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, weโ€™re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The TeamThe vision of the foundationโ€™s U.S. Program (USP) is to ensure that everyone in the US has access to life-changing opportunities so that race, ethnicity, and income are no longer predictors of educational and economic outcomes. The vision of the Assessment Initiative, which sits in the Early Learning & Assessments team, is that educators, school, and district leaders can effectively collect and utilize the right data on student progress and broader conditions to drive student success. As such, the Initiative explores innovative, efficient, and engaging assessments, promotes system alignment around meaningful measures, and supports the development of tools and capabilities that enable timely, data-informed action by educators and leaders.

Posting Close Date: Sunday, October 19th

Your Role


The Deputy Director, Assessment Initiative is responsible for designing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and monitoring innovative research and development activities for the Assessment Initiative within US Program. You provide leadership and direct management for the team of program officers responsible for developing core โ€œpublic goodsโ€ and intervention support for dissemination, uptake, and adoption broadly across a wide range of partners and actors. This leader will guide team members in the management of portfolios of foundation investments (grants and contracts), and work with external partners to drive progress. As part of this responsibility, this role will manage relationships with grantees, contractors, and key partners to achieve the foundation's desired impact, provide project briefings and updates to foundation leadership, and represent the foundation in meetings with external partners, as well as at conferences and workshops. You work in partnership with colleagues from other teams within US Program to ensure that the assessment related public goods being created support actors across the system to understand what students know and are able to do, and that these public goods enable learners to move efficiently and easily across institutions and sectors.

What Youโ€™ll Do

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