Senior Director of Business Operations

Watershed Advisors is looking for a Senior Director of Business Operations to join our Strategy & Operations Team. As a fully remote organization, our team is set up to work collaboratively on projects across the country every day. This role can be based anywhere in the United States.

About Watershed Advisors

Building on the deep public sector leadership experience of its team, Watershed Advisors supports governments to design, implement, and scale transformative education plans. We match proven education and workforce ideas, investors seeking social impact, and bold governmental leaders across the country. We then embed teams of experts within government agencies, coordinating multi-year efforts to implement, communicate, finance, and evaluate ideas to impact generations of American learners and job seekers in need of access and opportunity.

THE OPPORTUNITY

At Watershed, the Senior Director of Business Operations is a core member of the Strategy & Operations Team and reports to the Chief Operating Officer. This role leads Watershed's business development, contracts, and risk functions, works closely with our finance team to ensure business sustainability, elevate data and strategic recommendations to executive leaders. The Senior Director manages our Business & Contracts Managers, partners closely with vertical leaders and delivery teams on business development and contracting decisions and strategies, pulls strategic reports and conducts targeted FP&A to inform decisions, and partners closely with our CFO and supporting finance team. This position is best suited for someone with a strong understanding of contracting, compliance and risk, pricing strategy, and client service / consulting business strategy who is comfortable with data, leading contract-negotiations, building systems that keep the business running smoothly, holding deep relationships with delivery teams including building capacity and knowledge on business devel