President

About Aspire NorCal Founded in 1998, Aspire Public Schools has served scholars and communities across California for nearly three decades. Following Aspire Los Angeles’s transition into an independent organization, Aspire’s Bay Area and Central Valley regions will come together to form Aspire NorCal. Aspire NorCal will operate 22 schools serving approximately 10,000 scholars across Northern California, with schools located in Oakland, Richmond, East Palo Alto, Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, and Ceres. This evolution comes at an important moment for Aspire. Changes in California’s funding, policy, enrollment, and operating environment have created an opportunity to rethink how the organization supports its schools and scholars in its next chapter. The formation of Aspire NorCal creates an opportunity to strengthen support for schools across teams previously organized by geography, improve the consistency and effectiveness of school support, and create clear accountability systems for organizational and scholar outcomes. The new model will require the organization to balance greater coherence across Aspire NorCal with responsiveness to the different communities and contexts of its schools. Aspire NorCal enters this transition with a long-standing mission focused on post-secondary success and a deep commitment to educational equity, along with decades of institutional knowledge across its schools and teams. Preserving those strengths while building Aspire NorCal as a unified region will be central to the work ahead. About the role The President runs Aspire NorCal's entire non-instructional enterprise: finance, technology, operations, legal, people and facilities. This is a line executive role. The CFO, CTO and General Counsel report directly to the President, with the General Counsel holding a dotted line to the CEO on legal matters, and each of those functions answers to the President for its results. The President sets the operating priorities and performance routines for the one support office, makes difficult resource and structural decisions, and holds the leaders of each function accountable for execution. Everything the President does is in service of scholar outcomes, and the one support office is built around the needs of schools and communities. The CEO and President divide the work clearly. The CEO owns the external and instructional face of the organization: the Board, fundraising, authorizers, the Aspire Los Angeles separation at the governance level, and the Chief Schools Officer. Accountability for scholar outcomes rests with the CEO and the Chief Schools Officer. The President runs the internal non-instructional enterprise and works as a peer to the Chief Schools Officer so that schools get the talent, systems and support they need. Reporting directly to the CEO, the President is the CEO's primary operating partner for the internal non-instructional enterprise, supports the CEO's work with the Board on operations and…