Director of Catalytic Investments

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

The Director Strategic Investments offers a unique opportunity to work closely with The Commit Partnership’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, senior leadership, and influential external partners to shape one of the most ambitious economic mobility efforts in the country.

This leader will help influence and coordinate over $150 million in catalytic capital raised to accelerate economic mobility in Dallas County and across the state of Texas. The role sits at the nexus of data, strategy, and storytelling—connecting Commit’s vision for equitable economic mobility to measurable investment outcomes.

The Director will ensure that every philanthropic and public dollar is strategically deployed, transparently tracked, and clearly communicated to leadership, funders and community partners. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on connecting systems-level impact with disciplined execution—someone who can both manage details and sell the vision of how catalytic investment transforms lives and communities.

Key Responsibilities

1.  Strategic Investment Execution

• Partner with Commit’s programmatic, research, data, communications, strategic initiatives, and philanthropy teams to ensure philanthropic catalytic investments are aligned with Commit’s living wage, Opportunity 2040 goals.
• Develop and manage investment portfolios and reporting systems to ensure accurate financial tracking and impact measurement.
• Develop quarterly and annual reports that synthesize financial data, outcomes, and insights for investors and stakeholders.
• Collect and assess the financial and programmatic performance of investments to inform continuous improvement and future investments.

2.  Cross-Functional Collaboration & Partner Coordination

3.  Data-Driven Reporting & Performance Management

4.  Investor Communication & Stewardship

5.  Process Improvement & Systems Leadership

Ideal Candidate Profile

You are a go-getter and collaborator who balances strategic thinking with disciplined execution. You bring strong project management, analytical, and storytelling skills—and you thrive in mission-driven work that requires both precision and vision.

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Qualifications

Key Competencies

Language Skills

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Work Environment

The Managing Director generally works in an office environment but may occasionally be required to perform job duties outside of the typical office setting. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. The employee is not exposed to any adverse environmental conditions.

About The Commit Partnership :

Our Mission

We believe that through our collective actions, Dallas County—which educates 10% of Texas and 1% of the nation—can become an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared fairly. That’s why our True North Goal is that by 2040, at least half of all Dallas County residents ages 25–34, irrespective of race, will have the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment, we must equitably increase educational success aligned with high-demand, well-paying jobs—maximizing the cumulative impact from early education through college, career, and military readiness to strong postsecondary completion. Our team aligns community stakeholders around this shared roadmap for the future, using data to surface strategic initiatives that improve policies, practices, and funding. Together, we work to address the systemic root causes that hinder progress and strengthen our community’s capacity to serve every student effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012, the Commit Partnership has grown into the nation’s largest educational collective impact organization, uniting more than 70 backbone team members and over 200 partners across Dallas County and Texas—all working together to address the systemic education challenges facing our region and state. Our team brings community stakeholders together around a shared roadmap for the future, using data and practitioner insights to inform effective policy solutions that accelerate progress toward our goals and strengthen our collective capacity to serve every student well.

Together, we advocate for an excellent public education that ensures all students—regardless of race, place, or socioeconomic status—can shape their own futures, earn a living wage, and share in the prosperity of the world’s eighth-largest economy. We pursue this mission through several key initiatives, including Early Matters Dallas, Dallas County Promise, the Texas Urban Council, and the Texas Impact Network.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a mission-driven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact : You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant, sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding), and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment : You exhibit a relentless “students first” focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected, analyzed, visualized, and activated (and what steps must be taken, in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnership's mission.

Communication : By listening to understand before seeking to be understood, you’re able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference, recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organization's message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation : You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and execution of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems, often at scale, that improves organizational effectiveness and / or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion : You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table, ensuring that each person at the table's thoughts and perspectives are shared, valued by all others at the table, and reflected in our work. You're excited to help build and / or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed, respected, valued, and highly supported.

Joy : You recognize that people are central to our work, striking a balance between people and process, and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity : You admit mistakes openly, share learnings widely, and elevate bad news quickly, also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion, all employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.

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