Start Date: Immediate Role Type: Full-time Reports to: Kirsten Dargis, Managing Partner Team: Journey Supports Team Location/Travel: Remote (U.S.-based); ~1-2 trips per quarter (6-8x / year)

Who We Are

Transcend is a national nonprofit that helps communities reimagine and redesign schools so every young person can thrive in a rapidly changing world. Across the country, communities are recognizing that classrooms built for the industrial age aren’t preparing learners for what’s next. Instead, schools must be designed for continuous evolution: relevant, resilient, and ready for the future.

For more than a decade, Transcend has partnered with school and system leaders to build the capacity for bold, lasting change—change led by the people who live it every day. We’ve worked with nearly 500 schools and 200 districts serving over 225,000 students in 35 states. Together, we’ve seen what’s possible when communities lead redesign with proven methods, insight, and support.

From that work, we develop and share tools, research, and models that help schools everywhere make the leap to extraordinary learning—for every child, in every community. For more information, visit our website or follow us on LinkedIn . The Opportunity The Journey Supports Team (JST) builds the tools, resources, and learning experiences that make it possible for the school design coaches we call Design Partners to support communities through locally-driven, multi-year design journeys.

On these journeys, schools form design teams made up of leaders, teachers, students, caregivers, and other community members to envision and build a new model of school that fits their community's needs and aspirations. The JST creates and curates the tools Design Partners need to lead that process well. The JST sits within Transcend's Program team, alongside work focused on org foundations (the core concepts and frameworks that underlie all of our work), usable knowledge (the research and tools that inform the design choices communities make), and tech and innovation (the infrastructure that ties it all together).

The Journey Supports Team includes: 3-4 Design Journey Content Leads, each holding deep expertise in a particular part of the design journey 2 Builders who develop and refine the tools and experiences that make that expertise accessible and usable A Managing Partner who provides overall team leadership and direction As Transcend grows its reach and deepens its impact, the JST's work is increasingly critical and complex. Alongside building strong products, the team must maintain coherence across a growing library of methods and materials, run clear systems for learning from use, and stay tightly coordinated with teammates across the organization. Holding the full picture of all of this work has become a job unto itself.

This is where you come in. As the Partner, Journey Supports Systems & Operations, you will serve as the Managing Partner's strategic and operational right hand. You will keep our systems running, our products coherent and findable, our team informed and coordinated, and our roadmap clear.

You will represent the team in internal meetings, cross-team conversations, and senior leader touchpoints with the judgment, presence, and synthesis skills to help move decisions forward. This is an individual contributor role that sits at the center of how the team functions and delivers impact. In This Role, You Will: Support the Managing Partner in team strategy and coordination (~25%) You will work in close partnership with the Managing Partner to hold the full picture of team strategy, priorities, and cross-functional coordination, and show up as a credible representative of the team in key spaces.