Managing Director, Learning and Impact

Managing Director, Learning & Impact The Holdsworth Center is a non-profit organization founded and largely funded by Charles Butt, Chairman of H-E-B, a regional retail company. Our mission is to impact, over time, the quality of K-12 public education for all Texas students by supporting and developing leaders. Based in Austin, Texas, we were founded in 2017 in honor of Charles’ mother, Mary Elizabeth Holdsworth Butt, who was an educator, a philanthropist, and a lifelong pioneering advocate. We partner with public school districts to help them grow outstanding leaders at all levels so that staff thrive, and students excel in every classroom.

At Holdsworth, we believe leadership isn’t just about titles. We make a deep investment in leaders at both the district and campus levels, including teachers who lead students in the classroom and influence and lead their colleagues. Purpose & Responsibilities Holdsworth builds stronger leaders for Texas public schools so that teachers and students thrive. We work directly with superintendents, principals, and school leadership teams across Texas, and we hold ourselves to the same standard of continuous improvement we ask of the leaders we serve. That means our program evaluation work isn't a side function — it's core to how we know whether we're delivering on our mission.

This work is fundamentally about being a learning organization that carefully examines its impact so we know what is working, can learn from success, and keep improving. The Managing Director of Learning & Impact leads Holdsworth's program evaluation function, ensuring we learn from rigorous examination of the effectiveness of our work across our three program areas — Stronger Superintendents, Stronger Principals, and Redesigning School Leadership Teams.

This role leads a team of senior analysts and is personally responsible for connecting that work to the broader field: building and stewarding an evaluation advisory committee of outside experts, leading partnerships with external evaluators, and ensuring our evaluation practice earns credibility both inside and outside the organization. This is a senior leadership role reporting to the Chief Program Officer and with regular exposure to Holdsworth's President and, at times, its governing board. The person in this role needs to be as comfortable interpreting a regression output as they are explaining what it means and why it matters to various internal and external audiences.

Responsibilities

Develop and lead the overall strategy and operating plan for the Learning & Impact team Ensure Holdsworth has a strong approach to studying our impact, learning from successes and growth areas, and making adjustments to improve our programs’ impact Implement and evolve Holdsworth's evaluation and measurement framework, overseeing annual cycles of evaluation in each of our three program focus areas (Stronger Principals, Stronger Superintendents, and Redesigning School Leadership Teams) Build…

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