Strategic Partnerships Coordinator

About the role

LaunchEd connects schools with innovative products and solutions that address real challenges in education. The Strategic Partnerships Coordinator keeps the LaunchEd platform running smoothly by coordinating people, opportunities and information from first contact through early evaluation. You will act as a central point of coordination between educators, school leaders, company founders and internal teams, helping turn classroom insights into evaluated opportunities.

Key responsibilities

• LaunchEd Intake (Stage 1 & 2): act as contact for product and solution requests, screen inbound companies against intake criteria and route qualified opportunities into the pipeline.
• Maintain the intake calendar and coordinate intake meetings, demos and screening calls, keeping pipeline status and notes current in Monday.com.
• Innovators Network: lead the teacher and leader collective from the prior year's conference, run focus-group sessions on school-level problems, turn feedback into Sandbox messaging and solution matching, and coordinate paid product testers.
• Cross-department liaison: connect LaunchEd Group, prospective and active clients and the Sandbox, ensure clean handoffs between business development, diligence and implementation teams, and bridge ITSS and partner-facing teams.

Required profile

• Familiarity with the Red Apple Education Companies and Florida network and an understanding of the school-choice environment.
• Strong organization, scheduling and coordination skills across many stakeholders.
• Relationship management and comfort as first point of contact for founders and operators.
• Belief in school choice and alignment with the Strong Minds, Good Hearts ethos.
• Proactive, driven, able to work with urgency in a fast-moving pipeline.
• Detail-oriented and discreet with confidential pipeline and partner information.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of a CRM, with Monday.com preferred.
• Standard scheduling tools.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary plus performance incentives.
• Professional development opportunities.