Vice President, Program - Tennessee

As Blue Engine launches its partnership with the Tennessee Department of Education as a statewide technical assistance provider, this leader will build the foundations for Blue Engine’s Tennessee work and lead statewide support for schools and school systems implementing effective RTI²-A+B. The VP is accountable for executing this work successfully, including implementation quality, contractual performance, team capacity, and evidence of impact across Tennessee's diverse LEA contexts. The VP translates state priorities and Blue Engine's approach to instruction and educator development into a coherent regional strategy, then builds the people, systems, relationships, and operating discipline required to deliver it.

The VP also generates revenue in Tennessee and the surrounding region by cultivating relationships, identifying and shaping opportunities, and partnering with Blue Engine's Partnership Development team to move qualified opportunities toward close. This is a division-leadership role: the VP manages a distributed implementation team, allocates staff and budget, represents Blue Engine externally, and contributes executive-level perspective to organization-wide decisions.

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  This role sits in Job Level 5 within our compensation structure with a starting salary range of $150,000-$170,000. Blue Engine provides comprehensive benefits. Compensation for this role will depend on experience, demonstrated performance on core competencies, and alignment with internal equity. Blue Engine offers a comprehensive benefits plan (through JustWorks, a PEO), including employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with most dependent costs subsidized. Other benefits include six weeks of paid time off, a 403(b) plan with employer matching, an FSA plan, commuter benefits, and a flexible work environment.

• Set the vision and implementation strategy for Blue Engine's Tennessee RTI²-A+B work, aligning State priorities, contract commitments, LEA needs, and Blue Engine's product and impact objectives.

• Maintain executive accountability for the quality, timeliness, compliance, and impact of all contracted services, deliverables, reporting, and statewide coordination requirements.

• Ensure technical assistance builds sustainable LEA and school capacity rather than relying primarily on one-time professional learning or Blue Engine delivery.

• Oversee a coherent service model spanning enabling-conditions diagnostics, support planning, coaching, professional communities, consultation, resource development, and data-based continuous improvement.

• Ensure implementation strengthens the connection among Tier I core instruction, Tier II and Tier III supports, academic and behavioral intervention, and access to rigorous grade-level learning.

• Establish and monitor leading and lagging indicators of implementation quality, adult practice, system capacity, equitable access, and student outcomes, especially for students with disabilities.

• Use evidence to identify variation across Grand Divisions and LEAs, diagnose root causes, allocate support, and adjust strategy without lowering the bar for impact.

• Serve as the senior escalation point for high-risk implementation challenges and make timely decisions about partner strategy, staffing, resources, and corrective action.

• Build, manage, develop, and retain a diverse, Tennessee-connected implementation team with the instructional, systems, and relationship expertise required for statewide implementation. 

• Build a management and quality-assurance system that includes coaching observations, artifact review, calibration, stakeholder feedback, data review, and targeted professional development.

• Lead workforce planning across geography, expertise, caseload, and contract demand; make staffing assignments that protect service quality, staff sustainability, and financial health.

• Coach directors and managers through technical and adaptive challenges, including performance gaps, partner conflict, ambiguity, and changing state or district priorities.

• Manage the Tennessee division budget and oversee deployment of time, talent, contractors, and other resources against the highest-impact priorities.

• Own an annual regional revenue goal, in partnership with Partnership Development and executive leadership.

• Develop and maintain a regional growth strategy grounded in Blue Engine's product strategy, evidence of impact, market demand, competitive landscape, delivery capacity, and mission fit.

• Build relationships with state, district, philanthropic, and ecosystem leaders who can become partners, funders, connectors, or champions of Blue Engine's work.

• Generate and qualify leads, shape opportunities, and contribute across the full sales process—from early discovery through proposals, pricing, presentations, and close. 

• Translate implementation evidence and field insights into a compelling, credible case for investment without overpromising outcomes or creating unsustainable customization.

• Maintain a healthy pipeline and provide reliable forecasts, risk assessments, and next-step recommendations to Partnership Development and executive leadership.

• Represent Blue Engine with TDOE, LEA leaders, funders, peer organizations, and regional stakeholders. 

• Navigate complex political, institutional, and interpersonal dynamics across rural, suburban, and urban contexts and across lines of identity, role, and power.

• Represent Blue Engine at relevant state and regional convenings and position the organization as a thoughtful contributor to the fields of RTI/MTSS, inclusive instruction, and implementation support.

• Inform renewal and expansion decisions with evidence, relationship context, and strategic recommendations, in partnership with Partnership Development and executive leadership. 

• Lead Tennessee divisional planning and budget management and connect regional priorities to Blue Engine's organizational strategy and annual goals.

• Provide strategic input on decisions with product, people, financial, partnership, or enterprise implications.

• Partner across functions to translate patterns from Tennessee implementation into product improvements, implementation standards, organizational learning, and future growth strategy.

• Build a culture of accountability, learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement; give and receive candid feedback and address conflict directly and constructively 

Submit your application (resume & application questions) via the link below. We will review applications on a rolling basis.