Top Edtech Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead Teachable’s brand and content function, including brand identity, narrative, creative output, content strategy, events, PR, and earned media. Manage internal leads and creative talent, external agencies, campaigns, and cross-functional partnerships. Set strategic and creative direction, oversee events and communications, establish performance metrics, and align brand initiatives with business goals. The role also requires mentoring leaders and maintaining a consistent brand experience across channels and audiences.

Coordinates physical and digital events from initial enquiry through planning, pre-production, and delivery. Responsibilities include managing event systems, databases, websites, invitations, venues, suppliers, budgets, and technical requirements. The role collaborates with internal and external AV and event support teams while supporting university objectives in student recruitment, research, branding, and profile. Occasional weekend and evening work may be required.

Coordinates global partnership initiatives, stakeholder engagement, international visits, delegations, and cross-functional projects. The role manages risks, dependencies, consultation, reporting, due diligence, approvals, compliance tracking, governance resources, and engagement data. It provides advice and analysis across cultural and regulatory environments while translating strategic priorities into effective processes and timely outcomes.

Provides academic advising to undergraduate students, tracks degree progress, interprets university policies, and supports students through campus referrals. Manages Canvas content and office communications, including content creation and annual communication planning. Supervises 5–6 academic advisers, contributes to strategic planning and staff development, liaises with academic departments, supports joint-degree programs, and participates in university events and student-services initiatives.

Manages accounting, budgeting, forecasting, procurement, financial reporting, and post-award administration for sponsored research and departmental funds. Responsibilities include reconciling accounts, approving expenditures, processing payroll and invoices, monitoring compliance, preparing grant reports and closeouts, supporting budget modifications, and coordinating with faculty, administrators, funding agencies, and subcontractors. The role also trains research staff, advises budget leads, and ensures adherence to university and sponsor policies.

Manages leadership annual giving by identifying, soliciting, and stewarding donors capable of gifts from $2,500 to $100K+. Builds and manages a 200–300-prospect portfolio, develops fundraising strategies and proposals, conducts donor calls and visits, tracks stewardship and fundraising metrics, and collaborates across university teams to achieve annual revenue goals of $500K–$1.5M.

Develops and executes internal and external communications strategies across five institutions. Responsibilities include media relations, press materials, executive visibility, internal communications planning, events, change communications, measurement, workflow improvement, and cross-institution brand alignment. Partners with agency, marketing, media, and institutional leadership teams to ensure consistent messaging while adapting to distinct audiences and voices.

Owns and executes the operational launch playbook for new and upgraded programs across product areas. Coordinates product owners, marketers, creative teams, internal stakeholders, and vendors to manage launch timelines, deliverables, pages, channels, logistics, and readiness milestones. Tracks approximately 30–50 concurrent annual launches, resolves bottlenecks, adjusts sequencing and resources, and continuously improves the playbook to make future launches faster and more efficient.

Designs and implements secure, scalable applications, data architectures, integrations, analytics, and decision-support workflows. Leads end-to-end solution architecture across data ingestion, modeling, pipelines, applications, and cloud platforms. Develops directly with React, TypeScript, Python, SQL, REST APIs, and Palantir Foundry/Vantage. Translates research and operational requirements into reusable architectures, workflow automation, and platform-native applications while mentoring technical staff and collaborating across multidisciplinary teams.

Conduct live brainstorming sessions with high school students, guide narrative and supplemental essay development, and provide asynchronous drafting and editorial feedback. Manage multiple student projects, schedules, deadlines, communications, and work-hour tracking while collaborating with educators. The role requires strong English and editing skills, professionalism, organization, and a reliable remote workspace. Experience tutoring students, college admissions, heavy editing, and remote instruction is beneficial.

Coordinates financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, grant fiscal compliance, reporting, data management, assessment, student records, purchasing, and administrative operations for three federally funded TRIO programs. Develops financial reports, dashboards, audits, projections, and compliance documentation; reconciles expenditures and supports federal reporting and monitoring. Coordinates student intake and enrollment records, supervises student employees, and supports communications and outreach. Requires full professional English and Spanish proficiency and in-office work.

Leads and supports multiple Montessori schools during vacancies, transitions, or high-need periods. Responsibilities include licensing compliance, school operations, billing, scheduling, enrollment support, family relations, staff coaching, campus culture, and regional projects. Requires flexibility, reliable transportation, strong communication, organizational skills, and DCFS Director qualification.

Leads global People Operations transformation, including shared services, employee relations, HR technology, AI automation, benefits, payroll integration, governance, and organizational design. Advises executive leadership, strengthens HR systems and service delivery, manages operational risk, develops scalable processes, and builds high-performing global teams in a remote-first environment.

Leads Accelerate U's Evanston expansion by building community and employer partnerships, recruiting learners, overseeing daily program operations, managing stakeholder engagement, and representing the program publicly. The role develops strategic plans, coordinates with education and workforce organizations, supports job placement initiatives, hosts events, manages data and facilities, and collaborates across university departments to ensure strong program delivery and outcomes.