Top Edtech Jobs in Chicago, IL

Coordinates daily academic operations, including attendance tracking, scheduling, student appeals, academic records, compliance reporting, and data integrity. Manages academic tracking systems, JIRA support tickets, Learning Resource Center operations, and IT coordination for academic activities. Supports students and faculty while maintaining an organized, compliant educational environment.

Leads university academic advising operations, supervises professional advisors, manages advising caseloads, and maintains a reduced student advising caseload. Coordinates with colleges, faculty, and university offices to support academic planning, retention, and degree completion. Develops advisor training, promotes consistent advising practices, resolves complex advising matters, and recommends improvements to policies and procedures.

Owns full-funnel paid acquisition for enrollment, managing paid search, social, display, retargeting, and video campaigns. Optimizes budgets and campaigns toward applications and enrollments, maintains privacy-compliant tracking, analyzes funnel performance, improves landing-page conversion, and manages applicant retargeting. Builds marketing dashboards and reports using GA4, tag management, Looker Studio, or Power BI, while collaborating with marketing and admissions leadership on enrollment strategy and institutional reporting.

Leads regional communications strategy and execution across Braven’s operating regions. Responsibilities include media relations, social media strategy, executive speechwriting, op-eds, awards and conference submissions, video storytelling, regional communications calendars, partner communications, staff training, event support, leader preparation, launch communications, and website maintenance. The role collaborates with Executive Directors, university and employer partners, Fellows, media, and internal communications teams to strengthen Braven’s reputation and awareness.

Leads customer and student experience initiatives by developing CX strategies, optimizing enterprise applications and processes, mapping customer journeys, analyzing feedback and performance data, and coordinating cross-functional improvements. The role manages project goals, stakeholder engagement, change management, process enhancements, and implementation of AI-enabled customer support and digital care capabilities.

Leads English Learner programs across eight schools, ensuring regulatory compliance, instructional quality, curriculum alignment, staff development, and student outcomes. Supervises EL staff and supports principals through leadership development, school walkthroughs, instructional feedback, achievement planning, and assessment-data use. Builds relationships with educators, families, agencies, and communities while providing consultation on bilingual, dual-language, and transitional instruction.

Supports daily operations at the Sapelo Island Visitor Center and assists the Manager with site coordination. Greets visitors, answers inquiries, processes sales, operates point-of-sale systems, manages inventory, reconciles revenue, prepares reports, and maintains records. Works with employees, volunteers, residents, and partners, resolves visitor concerns, and assists with building, grounds, and trail upkeep. Rotating weekend work is required.

Guide students and families through financial aid applications, awards, loans, grants, and eligibility requirements. Review files for accuracy, completeness, compliance, and verification; process FAFSA records, reconcile accounts, explain obligations, and collaborate with admissions and student services while maintaining timely reports.

Own product design end-to-end, from user discovery and research through flows, prototypes, validation, implementation, and shipped experiences. Design scalable systems and interfaces for educators, schools, and internal teams; collaborate closely with product managers and engineers; use rapid experimentation and AI-assisted tools; synthesize insights; mentor designers; and help shape Zen’s evolving design practices and product-building culture.

Develop and manage strategic partnerships with community, nonprofit, civic, government, philanthropic, and education stakeholders. Build partnership pipelines, cultivate relationships, coordinate proposals and funding opportunities, manage MOUs and renewals, maintain CRM data, create dashboards and reports, represent Chicago Scholars externally, and lead cross-functional partnership projects and events.