Program Associate, Statewide Implementation – Change Leadership

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $92k - $115k / year

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WestEd

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1966

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

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Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

WestEd is a nonprofit research, evaluation, and services organization that partners with schools, districts, communities, and policymakers to improve education and human development. Through rigorous research, professional learning, and technical assistance, WestEd supports early childhood development, K–12 and special education, assessment, teacher workforce development, and systemwide transformation. It also focuses on policy/practice guidance and emerging areas such as AI in education, economic mobility, and workforce pathways to translate evidence into practical solutions and resources.

📋 Description

• Help state education agencies turn policy and ideas into real results for districts and the students they serve. • Support modernization projects like improving how districts are monitored for special education compliance, or making state education funding easier to track and understand: moving an agency from good intentions to programs that actually work on the ground. • Independently define and execute the work on assigned project components — and, as experience grows, on small projects — working from objectives and direction set with a project director. • Engaging stakeholders, building out plans for how new programs will roll out, drafting clear communications to keep everyone informed, developing training and technical assistance materials in partnership with subject-matter experts and clients, and contributing to the proposals and reusable resources that sustain this line of work.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree preferred. • Some experience with statewide or large-scale implementation — SEA, regional, district wide or large-scale technical assistance context. • Experience leading a defined workstream or project component through a change in policy or practice, including exercising judgment under ambiguity — not just exposure to change initiatives. • Developing subject matter expertise in change management or implementation practice, with the ability to advise clients on assigned components in partnership with project leadership. • Strong planning and sequencing ability with implementation and training plans. • Ability to support the authorship of communications frameworks and stakeholder/systems maps that inform client implementation of initiatives. • Facilitation of listening sessions and advisory groups. • Ability to facilitate drafting a process map or flowchart. • Working knowledge of change management or implementation methodology (e.g., Lean Six Sigma, ADKAR, Prosci, improvement science, implementation science or equivalent) as applied to public-sector or education contexts. • Ability to develop and deliver professional learning and technical assistance materials for clients, in partnership with content leads. • Ability to draft assigned sections of proposals and scopes of work, drawing on prior project work and/or materials. • Ability to track deliverables, level of effort, and spending for assigned workstreams and small projects against the contract schedule and budget. • Comfort presenting to clients and at regional or national convenings, with advance quality review of material.

🏖️ Benefits

• 15% contribution toward retirement effective day 1 of employment and immediately 100% vested • Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account option • All health/welfare benefits are effective the first of the month following the hire date • PTO: 19 days (increases to 21 days beginning the third year of employment), 12 paid holidays • Life Insurance: value of 3x gross salary, max of 500k • Opportunities for annual merit-based performance increases + annual incentives • Professional development opportunities & mentorship program