Vice President of School Culture and Student Experience

Position Summary

The Vice President of School Culture and Student Experience helps bring NAIS’s mission, vision, and values to life by providing leadership in the areas of school climate and culture; diversity, inclusion, and belonging; and student well-being. This role recognizes and advances the critical connection between belonging, student well-being, and academic engagement and success, ensuring that these elements are not treated as separate priorities but as interdependent drivers of thriving school communities and students. This role creates and curates resources, advances thought leadership, supports school-based programs, and leads national initiatives in these crucial areas to support independent schools in being exemplars of places and cultures where all students can thrive.

Responsibilities:

Leadership in School Climate and Culture; Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging; and Student Well-Being

• Provides strategic leadership for NAIS’s work at the intersection of school climate and culture; diversity, inclusion, and belonging; and student well-being, including navigating complex issues within school communities across diverse stakeholder perspectives.

Content, Research, and Knowledge Building

• Oversees development, advancement, and curation of online and digital resources related to school climate and culture; diversity, inclusion, and belonging; and student well-being to help schools understand and design experiences that consider belonging, well-being, academic engagement, child and adolescent development, and student agency across the independent school landscape.
• Ensures that resources reflect, and are relevant to, the different contexts of member schools.
• Translates research into actionable, scalable tools and resources for a wide range of schools.
• Considers the evolving digital landscape and identifies opportunities to leverage technology to advance NAIS’s mission and goals.

• Provides strategic leadership for NAIS’s work at the intersection of school climate and culture; diversity, inclusion, and belonging; and student well-being.
• Oversees development, advancement, and curation of online and digital resources related to school climate and culture; diversity, inclusion, and belonging; and student well-being.
• Translates research into actionable, scalable tools and resources for a wide range of schools.
• Considers the evolving digital landscape and identifies opportunities to leverage technology to advance NAIS’s mission and goals.