• Co-lead refinement of the Living Lab’s vision, theory of change, outcomes, and operating approach in partnership with the Managing Director of Field Strategy & Impact and key internal/external interest-holders. • Translate the vision into an initiative charter (scope, success measures, roles, governance, decision cadence) and keep it current as conditions shift. • Define and maintain a small set of outcome-aligned metrics and benchmarks (leading + lagging indicators) and ensure they are usable for decisions—not just reporting. • Steward relationships with core partner leaders (e.g., superintendents, curriculum leaders, and key district/community partners) directly tied to the Living Lab’s success. • Design and run a partner engagement strategy that clarifies value exchange, expectations, and contribution pathways across the California Cohort and National Network. • Support partnership and resource development efforts by providing initiative narrative, partner intelligence, and coordination for proposals and funder communications (primary relationship owners as designated by NEP). • Own the day-to-day delivery system for the Living Lab: workplan, milestones, roles/responsibilities, dependencies, risk management, and decision tracking. • Establish lightweight project management routines and tools that create clarity and accountability across strands of work, without over-bureaucratizing the initiative. • Co-develop and track the initiative budget and resource plan with the Managing Director / Chief of Staff; flag variances early and recommend tradeoffs to protect outcomes and organizational health. • Coordinate staffing needs and role clarity across NEP teammates, contractors, and partners; support onboarding and operating rhythms (staffing decisions made by designated leaders) • Coordinate a small, cross-functional leadership team with NEP staff in key roles and dedicated capacity to drive decisions, coordinate workstreams. • Design and facilitate convenings, working groups, and collaborative sessions that move the work forward—alignment, decisions, learning, and commitments (not just “good conversations”). • Navigate complex interest-holder dynamics across differing priorities, cultures, and constraints; surface tensions early and create pathways to resolution anchored in shared values and equity commitments. • Build practical measurement and learning loops that help the initiative adapt in real time (what’s emerging, what’s working, what’s stuck, what we’re changing). • Create systems to capture and synthesize promising practices across the California Cohort and National Network, in collaboration with internal partners. • Partner with External Communications and Field Strategy & Impact leadership to translate learning into field-facing outputs (e.g., briefs, tools, convening insights, presentations), scoped to a realistic cadence. • Contribute to funder management by supporting updates, learning briefs, and reports, helping translate progress and insights into clear narratives in partnership with NEP leadership.