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03/06/2024

Executive Director
Location: Bala Cynwyd, PA (Hybrid Role)
How to Apply:  Please email the following to Ramin Mohajer, Director of Organizational Development, at ramin@alliancefordecisioneducation.org: (1) a resume/CV, and (2) a cover letter describing your relevant experience and interest in the Alliance. 

Description:

OPPORTUNITY 

The Alliance for Decision Education ("the Alliance") is seeking an Executive Director to lead the organization in an exciting time of growth. As a visionary and passionate leader, the Executive Director will be steering an organization working to build, catalyze, and promote the field of Decision Education in order to improve lives by empowering students with essential skills and dispositions for making better decisions. The Executive Director will be the face of the organization, interfacing with a broad constituency of stakeholders, engaging in fundraising, building relationships, and bringing awareness to the importance of Decision Education. The Executive Director will further develop and execute the strategic plan in partnership with the Board of Directors (the Board) and a strong leadership team. As they continue to build the organization, the Executive Director will oversee the operational processes of the Alliance and will manage the complexities that come with a high-growth environment, building on a culture where staff meaningfully embrace the mission.

The Executive Director is expected to adhere to the Alliance’s local hybrid work schedule, working both remotely and from our office in Bala Cynwyd, PA at least two days a week. 

The Alliance offers a comprehensive total rewards package inclusive of competitive compensation that is commensurate with experience, generous Paid Time Off (PTO), an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and employer-paid medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance. Employees may also contribute to a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), as well as a 401(k) plan with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%.

*The position is based in the United States.

ABOUT THE ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATION

The Alliance is a national nonprofit organization driving a revolutionary shift in the way we think about education, leading the growing call for Decision Education to be part of every student’s learning experience. Its mission is to improve lives by empowering students with essential skills and dispositions for making better decisions. The decisions they make shape their lives and those of the people around them. Therefore, there is no more important set of skills that can be taught to today’s youth than how to improve the decisions they make.

Backed by experts in the decision sciences, business, and education, including several Nobel laureates, the Alliance believes that better decisions lead to better lives and a better society.

The Alliance is committed to an inclusive, supportive, and collaborative culture. Their team is made up of diverse, dedicated, and driven educators, researchers, subject matter experts, and other professionals who have come together from different backgrounds for a common purpose. It is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Alliance for Decision Education was founded in 2014 as the How I Decide Foundation through the vision and generous support of two accomplished decision-makers, Annie Duke and Eric Brooks. Both realized that the skills they were leveraging every day with highly successful results were rarely taught to K-12 students, creating a meaningful gap between children’s potential and their reality. They founded the Alliance to close that gap. Over the next four years, the organization built effective and engaging Decision Education programs that reached tens of thousands of teachers and students and had measurable and positive results. That success ignited a drive to scale the work of How I Decide to a national level to benefit millions of students. To achieve this, How I Decide became the Alliance for Decision Education in 2018, refocusing and committing to becoming a field builder and catalyst, sparking and growing support for Decision Education to be implemented in schools nationwide.

 Toward that end, the Alliance is actively building:
  • Public awareness
  • Innovative pilot programs
  • Standards and frameworks for curricula and pedagogy
  • Policy commitments at the state, federal, and local level
  • Professional development and support for teachers and administrators
  • Research and evidence on the efficacy of Decision Education
  • Partnerships with like-minded leaders and organizations
  • An ongoing commitment to identifying, coordinating, and amplifying all of those related efforts
To drive this critical work, the Alliance has implemented significant changes in strategy, staffing, and operations, while maintaining the same steadfast mission.

Currently, the organization has 37 employees with a plan to grow to 40-45 employees in 2024. The Alliance had unrestricted revenues of $6.2M in 2022. In addition, in 2022, they received $10M in restricted funding for research.


REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors.

The Executive Director currently manages several department heads (e.g., Director of Philanthropy, Director of Operations, and Director of Public Policy) and leads a small team as part of the Executive Office, which includes a Director of Organizational Development and an Organizational Project Manager. The Executive Director will have an opportunity to shape the organizational structure to meet the growing and changing needs of the Alliance.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership and Strategy

General leadership
  • Set and execute the vision for the organization, in collaboration with the Board.
  • Lead the Alliance in a manner that supports and guides the organization’s mission as defined by the Board.
  • Update and implement a strategic plan to ensure the Alliance can successfully fulfill its mission and goals.
  • Lead the organization’s efforts to build, catalyze, and promote the field of Decision Education and to bring together various stakeholders in this movement.
  • Serve as the Alliance’s primary spokesperson to the organization’s constituents, the media, and the general public.
Staff Leadership
  • Lead the staff through organizational growth.
  • Guide the leadership team and oversee organizational efforts in all departments.
  • Further develop and embed a culture of Decision Science among the staff.
  • Foster a positive and inclusive culture that encourages collaboration, innovation, and support.
Board Relations and Governance
  • Communicate effectively with the Board of Directors and provide, in a timely manner, all information necessary for the Board to function properly and to make informed decisions.
  • Work collaboratively with the Board in various areas, including strategic planning, fundraising, and Board membership.
Financial Management
  • Oversee the fiscal integrity of the Alliance, including submission to the Board of a proposed annual budget and quarterly financial statements.
  • Oversee the fiscal management of the Alliance, including operating within the approved budget, ensuring maximum resource utilization, and maintaining the organization's positive financial position.
Fundraising and Relationship Management
  • Cultivate relationships and meet with a variety of external partners, including major gift donors, prospects, and other key stakeholders.
  • Strategize with the Development Department and Board about how to diversify funding sources and revenue streams.
QUALIFICATIONS

Experience, Skills, and Knowledge

Note: Candidates do not need to meet all of the qualifications below to be considered.

Required
  • Previous experience as an Executive Director, CEO or other senior leadership position.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset and track record of innovation (e.g., leadership experience with start-ups, fast growing organizations, and/or multiple and diverse sectors).
Preferred
  • Leadership experience with non-profit organizations.
  • Experience in K-12 education and/or ed tech.
  • Decision Science Knowledge.
  • Prior experience building movements or fields (or other similar work raising awareness and aligning, coordinating and amplifying the efforts of like-minded organizations and individuals towards a common vision or goal).
  • Degree and/or work experience in any of the following fields is preferred: math, statistics, science, economics, law, or other fields involving quantitative thinking or critical reasoning.
  • Experience in academic research, public policy, and fundraising is preferred.
Helpful
  • Knowledge or experience in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, or similar fields.
  • Advanced degree in education.
  • Experience with STEM, SEL, or other educational movements.
  • Understanding of experience design and/or curriculum design/development.
  • Experience in related fields to K-12 education, such as higher education.
Qualities

Alliance Ambassador and Stakeholder Manager
  • As the face of the organization, the Executive Director represents and promotes the Alliance and the field of Decision Education in a variety of public contexts, including talks, presentations, events, and media opportunities.
  • Possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills to allow for easy collaboration with the Board of Directors, Advisory Council, and various stakeholders.
  • Possesses exceptional abilities to cultivate relationships and fundraise.
Visionary and Passionate Leader
  • Understands what it takes to innovate and motivate a team to achieve organizational goals and really make a difference.
  • Understands how to measure success with a critical eye.
  • Passionate about the importance of Decision Education.
Strategic Organization Builder
  • Possesses strategic thinking and creative problem solving abilities, which are key in managing the complex growth process of the organization and the field.
Values-Aligned and Emotionally Intelligent Leader
  • Displays the Alliance’s three core values:
    • Rationality - truth-seeking, curiosity, active open-mindedness, and intellectual humility.
    • Education - genuine growth mindset and prioritizes learning and professional development for the team.
    • Humanism - self-awareness, empathetic and empowering leader and manager. Passion for working with people with diverse ways of thinking and backgrounds and cares deeply for others.
  • Driven and conscientious with high integrity and accountability.

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11.17.2023

Director of Decision Science – Statistical Innovation
Locations: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada  or Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Job ID: R-183238
Date posted: 23/10/2023

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office and BlueSky Hub in downtown Toronto are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.

Our dedication to sustainability is also central to our culture and part of what makes AstraZeneca a great place to work. We know the health of people, the planet and our business are interconnected which is why we’re taking ambitious action to tackle some of the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to access to healthcare and disease prevention.

We are recruiting a Decision Science Director to join our growing Statistical Innovation group. Our main focus is providing statistical methodology support for all phases of clinical development for AZ’s Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism and Respiratory & Immunology divisions together with specific targeted support for the Oncology division and the newly acquired Alexion division of AZ which specializes in medicines to treat rare diseases. You will complement the skills in the group by providing decision science solutions to problems faced in clinical development.

In this role, you will belong to the Early Biometrics & Statistical Innovation (EB&SI) department, where our data-centric focus helps us work efficiently and creatively to bring the right medicines to the right patients. Our teams use their expertise in statistics and programming to address drug development objectives and reduce uncertainty in product development, driving better business decisions with quantitative reasoning. As part of the Data Science & AI team, you’ll use technology at the forefront of science in a creative environment, with the scope to develop new statistical ideas and apply them in your work.

Main duties and responsibilities

You will provide key input as you use decision science to find solutions to problems at critical stages in the drug development cycle. Your key focus will be on producing pragmatic solutions, often within a tight time scale where the emphasis will be to deliver first, then refine and develop your solutions thereafter.

You will lead capability build in more than one of the following areas of decision science:

  • Create structure and insights to decision problems using decision science techniques
  • Design of early and late phase clinical studies using both frequentist and Bayesian approaches
  • Determine Probability of Technical Success using elicitation and assurance

You will also provide expert consultancy on key issues for medical scientists working on clinical development plans and other key roles across the business where decision science can add value. This will involve leading and participating in strategic activities such as capability build projects, which can directly impact improvements to the way clinical trials are crafted and analysed in AstraZeneca. You will also be expected to interact with external scientists and regulators, through publications, presentations and cross-industry collaborations. There will also be a focus to proactively identify new areas where Decision science can contribute, developing collaborative relationships with the external scientific/academic community.

Requirements

Essential

  • Postgraduate qualification in Statistics or a related field
  • Documented ability of delivering innovative solutions to sophisticated decision making problems in an applied environment. Knowledge of decision making tools, elicitation and methods to provide structure to complex problems.
  • Knowledge of elicitation, scenario planning, objective networks, strategy tables, multi criteria decision analysis, decision quality, objective networks, framing sessions, decision trees, design thinking and mind mapping
  • Solid understanding of programming in Excel and R and/or Python High level of competence in global and cross-skilled collaborative working
  • Track record of research and methodological development in Decision Science, supported by scientific publications in first class journals
  • Desire to apply your scientific competence on practical problems, for the benefit of patients

Desirable

  • Broad awareness of decision sciences issues against the evolving scientific and regulatory landscape

Great People want to Work with us! Find out why:

  • GTAA Top Employer Award for 9 years
  • Learn about our culture
  • Learn more about working with us in Canada
  • View our YouTube channel

Are you interested in working at AZ, apply today!

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

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 11.08.2023

Coastal Fisheries Management and Policy: Tenure-Track Faculty Position
Natural Resources and Environmental Management
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Job Number 2023-02167,  Apply Here

Continuous until filled, application review begins December 18, 2023.

We seek a candidate who will expand the expertise of our department and integrate undergraduate and graduate education with cutting edge research that serves the needs of the people of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Island region. The successful candidate will have research expertise in decision science and/or risk analysis with a specific focus on management and policy for coastal fisheries, which can be construed broadly to include targeted, invasive, and/or threatened fish populations and other environmental challenges of federal, state, and community resource managers. The research program developed by the successful candidate will emphasize decision-making, quantitative/qualitative modeling to evaluate consequences and trade-offs of potential management actions, and the generation of results with clear and tangible benefits to resource management agencies. The successful candidate will have excellent teaching and mentoring skills that enrich the department’s undergraduate and graduate degree programs course offerings. The candidate should also have a strong desire to collaborate across the University of Hawai‘i System to build and grow a world-class fisheries science graduate program. NREM’s mission is to weave knowledge systems, build capacity and leadership for stewardship in Hawaii, and create scalable, holistic solutions to local and global environmental challenges. Our department is part of the land-grant College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, the founding college of UH. More information about NREM is available at https://cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu/nrem/

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 01.31.2023

BODILY BICENTENNIAL PROFESSORSHIP IN ANALYTICS| University of Virginia | Darden School of Business
Location: Charlotsville, Virginia.

Extraordinary opportunity to take a break from your normal responsibilities to capture in writing and media your contributions to Analytics, including Data Science

 The Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia invites applications for an analytics Professorship. We are actively seeking an exceptional business and/or academic leader with real world experience, who has contributed innovative methodology and practice to analytics. This leader will take a break from their normal activities to create, write, and present at Darden. This will add to their professional credentials and refresh the individual professionally. This appointment will strengthen the School and the University of Virginia by growing the capabilities of tomorrow’s leaders in the areas such as data science, decision analysis, decision making, statistical forecasting, artificial intelligence applications, optimization, and uncertainty models for real-world problems. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to interact and collaborate with faculty experts in the field of data science at Darden and the School of Data Science. The products of the collaboration will ensure Darden can offer a unique contribution to analytics focused on helping practicing managers use analytics for decisions to drive strategy and business success.

Characteristics of Holders of the Professorship: The successful candidate will have made and will show promise of continuing to make advances in analytics practice and methods. They will be those who can make the greatest impact on the world through taking to time to share their work. Thought leaders from around the globe would be eligible for the award, whether from academics or management practice or government organizations.

Roles and Responsibilities: The primary activity will be to capture in media and writing the innovations they have made, interact with Darden and UVA colleagues, present their contributions, and share their work to the world. In addition, they will take time to further develop their contributions and innovations. The holder of the professorship will not have responsibility for Darden courses, although they will from time-to-time teach class sessions or deliver presentations to the Darden community.

The awardee will either be full-time in residence at the Darden School for 4-8 months of the year of their appointment, taking a leave-of-absence from existing responsibilities, or will dedicate part time to give a similar overall time equivalent. This time will primarily be spent at the Darden School with the option of some virtual connection periods. The successful candidate is encouraged to immerse themselves in the Darden/UVA community. To support their efforts, office space and administrative assistance will be provided.

Presentation and Associated Documents: In accepting the Professorship, the awardee will commit to making a presentation of their best work to students, faculty, and interested members of the Darden and UVA community during the year of the award. In addition, the recipient will commit to work with the Darden School to disseminate their ideas and scholarship to the world. This will include posting on the Darden website the presentation and additional support documents representing the vision of the work and contribution to improving the world. Once the website is established, it will be linked from news sites, blogs of thought leaders, and compendia of consulting and scientific firms.

Duration: The professorship will be given for a one-year period (not necessarily exactly matching a calendar or academic year) with a flexible start and end date. The award may be renewed for one additional year, as determined by the Advisory Board. It may be awarded to a prior recipient, providing there has been at least one award of the Professorship between the prior award and a subsequent award.

Nomination Procedures: Anyone may nominate candidate(s) for the Professorship and self-nominations are encouraged. To apply or nominate, email AnalyticsProfessorship@Darden.virginia.edu

If you are self-nominating please provide a CV, information about why you would be a good candidate and what you hope to produce while at Darden. Successful candidates will need to provide references as well.

For those nominating someone else, please include in your email contact information for the nominee and why they should be considered.

To see additional information about the Professorship, visit the website: https://www.darden.virginia.edu/bodily-bicentennial-professorship-analytics or download HERE.

The Darden School of Business is a top-rated global business school. The University of Virginia is regarded as one of the nation's finest public universities. Charlottesville is consistently ranked among the best places to live in the United States. See below for more information about UVA and the surrounding Charlottesville area. The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System and the University Physician’s Group are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspective and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified nominations will receive consideration without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.



 

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